Winston Churchill followed his own star. He yearned to be
‘great’, to gain historical immortality. And he did so through
deeds and words: his actions as a soldier and politician, gilded by
his writings as a journalist and historian. But Churchill’s path
to greatness was also defined by the leaders he encountered along
the way – friends and foes, at home and abroad. Men of power such
as Hitler and Mussolini, Roosevelt and Stalin, David Lloyd George,
Neville Chamberlain and Charles de Gaulle. And the haunting
presence of the adored father who had seen nothing of merit in his
troublesome son. In these men Churchill discerned greatness, or its
absence, in ways that influenced his own career. This book includes
some whom Churchill would not have deemed ‘great’, but who –
in our own day – offer alternative mirrors of what that word
might mean. Mahatma Gandhi, who infuriated Churchill by exploiting
the power of powerlessness. Clement Attlee, whose heretical vision
of ‘Great Britain’ was socialist and post-imperial. And his
darling Clementine, channelling her ‘pinko’ sentiments to
become Winston’s essential helpmate and most devoted critic.
Mirrors of Greatness offers vivid new perspectives on Churchill’s
life and work, showing how this unique man – with dazzling gifts
and jagged flaws – learned from his ‘great contemporaries’
and what they saw in him.
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