What if, instead of being born to a life of privilege, power and outstanding political achievement, Winston Churchill had been a bicycle? In this groundbreaking work of speculative counterhistory, historian and cyclist Nigel Nadgery explores the alternate possibilities thrown up by this thrilling thought experiment. His account of a British wartime government led into defeat by Lord Halifax in the absence of a more hawkish presence is as meticulously guessed at as his wholly imagined biography of a Churchill manufactured in Nottingham and ridden by errand boys until sold for scrap in 1943.
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