Summary
Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's -- Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they'd died then, history would scarcely remember them. At the time, Churchill was a politician on t... Full description
- The two Winstons
- Churchill the adventurer
- Orwell the policeman
- Churchill: Down and out in the 1930s
- Orwell becomes "Orwell": Spain 1937
- Churchill becomes "Churchill": Spring 1940
- Fighting the Germans, reaching out to the Americans: 1940- 1941
- Churchill, Orwell, and the class war in Britain: 1941
- Enter the Americans: 1941-1942
- Grim visions of the postwar world: 1943
- Animal Farm: 1943-1945
- Churchill (and Britain) in decline and triumph: 1944-1945
- Churchill's revenge: The war memoirs
- Orwell in triumph and decline: 1945-1950
- Churchill's premature afterlife: 1950-1965
- Orwell's extraordinary ascension: 1950-2016
- Afterword: The path of Churchill and Orwell.