Historian Barry Gough provides a close examination of the first year of the First World War (1914) with emphasis on Winston Churchill’s contributions. He focuses on the decision to go to war, the escape of Goeben and Breslau, Admiral Jellicoe and the Grand Fleet, Dunkirk, and Antwerp among others.
BARRY GOUGH, prize-winning and Historian and biographer, is a Fellow of Kings College London and Archives Fellow of Churchill College Cambridge. His Pax Britannica won The Mountbatten Literary Award of the British Maritime Foundation and he is author of numerous studies of sea power and imperial affairs. Gough is an Emeritus Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University and a resident of Victoria, BC.
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This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada. Ce projet est financé en partie par le gouvernement du Canada.