Jonathan Schneer is Professor of British History at Georgia Tech and the author of a number of highly acclaimed books on British history including London 1900: The Imperial Metropolis, The Thames: England's River and The Balfour Declaration, which won the National Jewish Book Award. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
'Like Abraham Lincoln before him, Winston Churchill proved himself a great war leader, as everyone knows. But Jonathan Schneer's achievement is to show us how Churchill too had to work with a team of rivals in his own war cabinet. It is a story told with great assurance and studded with vivid personal detail.' -- Peter Clark, author of Mr. Churchill's Profession 'Written with brio and a rich command of the sources, Jonathan Schneer tells the fascinating and comparatively neglected story of Winston Churchill's Grand Coalition Cabinet of Tories, Labour, and Liberals, the political leaders who played crucial roles in winning the war against Hitler. Not surprisingly, they were also from time to time at war against one another and the Prime Minister. Churchill, despite his flaws, still emerges as the hero essential for the saving of Britain and her allies. This is a deeply insightful and important contribution to the understanding of the most important event of the twentieth century.' -- Peter Stansky, Stanford University