SOURCE: A review of Triumph and Tragedy, in Journal of American History, Vol. 41, No. 3, December 1954, pp. 543-44.

In the following review, Hubbard asserts that Churchill's Second World War series serves as a testament to the politician's political virtuosity and tenacity.

This [Triumph and Tragedy] is the concluding volume of [The Second World War] made remarkable by the fact that the author not only can speak with authority on the precise events which now shape the contemporary world but whose reflections also are marshaled by the regimen of a historical perspective. Admittedly, the author's unswerving frame of reference is that vast panoply of men and institutions and events which combine to produce the British heritage, and it is with full knowledge and admiration for his forebears that he writes this chronicle with fervor, with pride, and, in this last volume, with anguish. Simply stated, the theme of the final...