THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, ECONOMIST,
DAILY TELEGRAPH, EVENING STANDARD, OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR
'Undoubtedly the best single-volume life of Churchill ever written'
Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times A magnificently fresh and
unexpected biography of Churchill, by one of Britain's most
acclaimed historians Winston Churchill towers over every other
figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his
death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest
man in the world. There have been over a thousand previous
biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts now draws on over forty
new sources, including the private diaries of King George VI, used
in no previous Churchill biography to depict him more intimately
and persuasively than any of its predecessors. The book in no way
conceals Churchill's faults and it allows the reader to appreciate
his virtues and character in full: his titanic capacity for work
(and drink), his ability see the big picture, his willingness to
take risks and insistence on being where the action was, his good
humour even in the most desperate circumstances, the breadth and
strength of his friendships and his extraordinary propensity to
burst into tears at unexpected moments. Above all, it shows us the
wellsprings of his personality - his lifelong desire to please his
father (even long after his father's death) but aristocratic
disdain for the opinions of almost everyone else, his love of the
British Empire, his sense of history and its connection to the
present. During the Second World War, Churchill summoned a
particular scientist to see him several times for technical advice.
'It was the same whenever we met', wrote the young man, 'I had a
feeling of being recharged by a source of living power.' Harry
Hopkins, President Roosevelt's emissary, wrote 'Wherever he was,
there was a battlefront.' Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke,
Churchill's essential partner in strategy and most severe critic in
private, wrote in his diary, 'I thank God I was given such an
opportunity of working alongside such a man, and of having my eyes
opened to the fact that occasionally such supermen exist on this
earth.'
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Mon, 27 Jan 2020 | Review
by: Lesley E.
Engrossing, informative and a darn good read
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