If you thought there was nothing fresh to say about Winston Churchill, then look at Kevin Ruane's tremendously assured Churchill and the Bomb which has new things to say both about the great man himself and the diplomatic climate of the 1940s and 1950s.

A Book of the Year, BBC History

Excellent … Thorough in its analysis and scrupulously fair in its judgments.

A Book of the Year, Times Higher Education

A hugely impressive analysis of Churchill's relationship with peaceful and military nuclear fission ... There have been books on this subject before, but Kevin Ruane's is the best of them and has the huge advantage of making complicated scientific theories easily explicable to the layman ... [The subject] makes for gripping reading in Ruane's capable hands.

Literary Review

Churchill's remarkable career continues to fascinate. Many in the stream of new books about him are mere potboilers, but a few, like Ruane's, combine excellent scholarship with great readability. Ruane (Canterbury Christ Church Univ., UK) argues that Churchill's post-1945 career (often dismissed as a disappointing coda to the great war years) in fact shows a Churchill both adaptable and creative until his final retirement in 1955. And never was that so true as with his engagement with the nuclear age … An important story very well told.
Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries.

CHOICE

There are times when books appear whose insights have specific resonance, helping to create a greater understanding of world events than before. Kevin Ruane's profound analysis of the changing nature of the relationship between Winston Churchill and the development of the atomic bomb provides an example.

Military History Monthly

Kevin Ruane's Churchill and the Bomb is a work of impeccable scholarship, based on a profound study of many primary sources. It cannot be recommended too highly.

Twentieth-Century British History