Review of 'Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
A fantastic dual biography that traces the disparate paths taken to a common anti-totalitarianism by these giants of the twentieth century, and also their reputations after death.
From the mid-1920s onward, aristocratic politician and writer [a:Winston S. Churchill|14033|Winston S. Churchill|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1306133803p2/14033.jpg] was a right-wing democratic capitalist. During the same period, little-known novelist and journalist [a:George Orwell|3706|George Orwell|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1588856560p2/3706.jpg] was a left-wing democratic socialist. Before, during, and after World War II, both Englishmen were convinced of the wrongs of Hitler's Nazism and Stalin's communism, and both fought them in their own ways through words and deeds.
For an earlier take on this topic, see The Two Winstons, the final episode of [a:Simon Schama|695|Simon Schama|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1250448182p2/695.jpg]'s great documentary, A History of Britain.