The Gathering Storm: The Second World War (Volume I) by Winston Churchill

The Gathering Storm: The Second World War (Volume I) by Winston ChurchillWinston Churchill's six volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction and is an enduring, compelling work that led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Gathering Storm vividly describes the steps that led to

Built by visionary business leaders

Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father

Gustad Noble is a devoted family man who gradually sees his modest life unravelling

Filled with both rich humour and desperate poignancy

Quammen explains that:-Infectious disease experts saw this pandemic coming-Some scientists

Beset by challenges

and the five extraordinary women who meet there - as if Maeve Binchy had written The Kite Runner

you’ll never see advertising the same way again

She came from nothing

A decade in the making

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Going beyond behavioural economics