Larres has sifted through a mountain of primary and secondary literature in his exploration of Churchill's ceaseless efforts during the twilight years of his career (1945-55) to use personal diplomacy to lessen international tensions among the great powers.

Larres has sifted through a mountain of primary and secondary literature in his exploration of Churchill's ceaseless efforts during the twilight years of his career (1945-55) to use personal diplomacy to lessen international tensions among the great powers. Through the power of his personality and intellect, Churchill sought to keep Great Britain a major player in international affairs, and he never fully comprehended that the British imperial sun had already begun to set by 1945

This book explores Churchill's predilection for direct diplomatic action from his first tentative involvement in 1908 .

This book explores Churchill's predilection for direct diplomatic action from his first tentative involvement in 1908 until his retirement as prime minister in 1955. Its principal focus is the period 1945-1955, during which the full force of Churchill's personal diplomacy was directed at sustaining Britain's great power status-in relation to the Soviet Union and the United States-at a time when its own economic power was declining.

Churchill's Cold War. The Politics of Personal Diplomacy. Yale 2006, ISBN 0-300-09438-8. The Cold War after Stalin's death. A missed opportunity for peace? (with Kenneth Osgood) Lanham 2006, ISBN 0-7425-5451-1.

Larres talked about his book Churchill’s Cold War: The Politics of Personal Diplomacy, published by Yale University Press

Larres talked about his book Churchill’s Cold War: The Politics of Personal Diplomacy, published by Yale University Press. During the talk, he explained how Churchill’s personal diplomatic meeting with foreign leaders helped maintain Britain’s status as a world power on par with the rising Soviet Union and the United States. The author asserted that Churchill’s preference for summits and his relationships with .

Churchill's Cold War: The Politics of Personal Diplomacy. Churchill's Cold War: The Politics of Personal Diplomacy. Larres has produced a volume almost three times the length of Keegan's, focusing on Churchill's attempts at personal diplomacy in 1945-55. This enormous volume by an erudite diplomatic historian boasts almost 200 pages of notes and bibliography. Like the two books above, this work is also a counterattack against the revisionists who accuse Churchill of having left an impoverished United Kingdom as a satellite of Washington, thanks to his hatred of Hitler and dislike for Germany.

Churchill's techniques of government were distinctly unconventional. Energetic, self-confident, and persuasive, he preferred to act outside official civil service channels when the stakes were high. When forming foreign policy, his preferred modus operandi was summit diplomacy-the cultivation of personal contacts to achieve national objectives.

Churchill’s techniques of government were distinctly unconventional. This book explores Churchill’s predilection for direct diplomatic action from his first tentative involvement in 1908 until his retirement as prime minister in 1955. Its principal focus is the period 1945-1955, during which the full force of Churchill’s personal diplomacy was directed at sustaining Britain’s great power status-in relation to the Soviet Union and the United States-at a time when its own economic power was declining.

Volume 37, Issue 2. August 2003, pp. 343-344. Klaus Larres, Churchill's Cold War: The Politics of Personal Diplomacy (Yale University Press, 2002, £2. 0). Pp. 583. ISBN 0 300 09438 8. DIANNE KIRBY (a1). University of Ulster. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 September 2003.

Churchill's Personal Diplomacy: A Lot of Effort for Limited Success. Klaus Larres impressively traces Winston Churchill's political career from his early positions in the British government starting in 1908 to his resignation as prime minister in 1955 and argues that the famous leader actively pursued personal diplomacy and summitry while in office. He stresses that Churchill's personal diplomacy was "an imaginative and perhaps even visionary policy through which he attempted to reverse his country's declining fortunes and prevent or undo major catastrophes before the.

In August 1940, Winston Churchill likened the relationship between Britain and America to the Mississippi: ‘It just keeps rolling along,’ he told the Commons, ‘full flood, inexorable, irresistible, benignant. The tide of books is unceasing – I could have added several more to those discussed here – as are the movies and documentaries, with Albert Finney following Richard Burton and Robert Hardy as a screen Churchill.