Book Review: Countdown to Crisis by Ken Timmerman

Throughout the 1930s, although he been a popular war hero, author, Lord of the Admiralty and had held numerous cabinet ministries, Winston Churchill, remained a “back bencher” barely holding on to his seat in the House of Commons. He was scorned by the media and virtually the whole of the political elite considered him a pariah because he would not refrain from telling the British public what it so desperately did not want to hear. An entire decade before the German bombing blitz over London, he warned his countryman that they would inevitably have to fight Germany again or perish as a sovereign nation. More »