Leo McKinstry

Leading historian of the Second World War Leo McKinstry looks at the lives of two of the greatest 20th-century political leaders, Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee, and explains how they forged a wartime partnership but went on to fight each other in seminal post-war elections.

McKinstry throws new light on their lives and relationship including that they shared a governess and clashed bitterly over wartime domestic policies and reconstruction. He shows how Attlee kept Britain’s post-war nuclear programme from Churchill and from his own Labour Party and uncovers the private correspondence that demonstrates the friendliness between the two men in later life.

McKinstry is a well-known historian of the Second World War. His books include Spitfire and Hurricane.