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On May 10; 1940; Britain’s new prime minister strode purposefully down to the basement of an anonymous government building and entered a top secret command center. “This;” growled Winston Churchill; “is the room from which I will run the war.” At the war’s end; Churchill and his colleagues left the chamber and locked the door behind them—and the War Rooms remained there; untouched and little known; until the early 1980s. Today; those historic chambers are on display as the Churchill War Rooms exhibit. With Secrets of Churchill’s War Rooms; you can go behind the glass partitions that separate the War Rooms from the visiting public; closer than ever before to where Churchill not only ran the war—but won it. This magnificent volume offers up-close photography of details in every room and provides access to sights unavailable on a simple tour of Churchill War Rooms. These are views that few people in the world have ever seen. Go behind closed doors to sit at Churchill’s desk; open up long-abandoned drawers and sift through seventy-year-old papers. See the anxious scratches on the arms of Sir Winston’s chair; pick up the phone that he used to speak to the president of the United States; and examine the map that loomed over his bed as he took his famous afternoon naps. Including more than three hundred detailed images and firsthand memories of Churchill as a leader; boss; father; husband; and a man; Secrets of Churchill’s War Rooms tells the fascinating story of the work carried out in these underground offices.