Winston Churchill THE ERA AND THE MAN By VIRGINIA COWLES The
Universal Library GROSSET DUNLAP NEW YORK TO THE ENDURING
INSPIRATION OF MY MOTHER FLORENCE JAQUITH COWLES FOREWORD IN THIS
book I have attempted to tell of Mr. Churchills early days, the
influences brought to bear upon him as a young man, and to present,
as objectively as possible, an account of his prodigious career. I
have not tried to draw a veil over the less successful periods nor,
I hope, have I withheld praise and admiration for his great
contributions. Mr. Churchill stands out as a titan among his fellow
men. Consequently his mistakes and triumphs are often intermingled
on a grandiose scale, and his personality seldom fails to draw a
challenge. As a statesman he moved through four decades of
tumultuous events before he reached the grand climax of his life.
But in retrospect his political misfortunes seem provi dential, for
without them he might not have been set apart, or spared, as Mr.
Attlee once put it, to lead his country in the stirring days of
1940. When I saw Mr. Churchill at the French Embassy in 1950 and
told him I was planning to write his biography he growled
good-naturedly Theres nothing much in that field left unploughed.
However, he did not tal into consideration the unusual fertility of
the ground and I hope the reader will not be disappointed in the
harvest I have been helped by the innumerable biographies and
memoirs to which I have given acknow ledgment, by the newspapers
and magazines of the last fifty years, and by information gathered
from people whose paths at one time or another have crossed those
of Mr. Churchill. A number of friends were kind enough to offer
comment and criticism on thefinished work. Although I do not
pretend to reflect their views in the interpretation I have given,
I would like to thank Mr. Leo Amery, Mr. Robert Boothby and Mr.
William Deakin for reading the book in manuscript form. VIRGINIA
COWLES Kingsbridge, Steeple Ckydon, Buckingham. A CKNO WLEDGMEN TS
GRATEFUL acknowledgment is made to the following publishers for
some of the selections reprinted in this volume Christophers Ltd.
London Incidents and Reflections by J. B. Atkins J. ML Dent Sons,
Ltd. London Certain People of Importance Pillars of Society and
Prophets, Priests and Kings by A. C. Gardiner Doubleday Company,
Inc. Life of Lord Fisher by R. H. Bacon and Politicians and the War
by Lord Beaverbrook Harcourt, Brace Company, Inc. The Economic
Consequences of Mr. Churchill by J. M. Keynes and Intimate Diary of
the Peace Conference and Afterwards by Lord Riddell Henry Holt
Conpany, Inc. A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Houseman Houghton Mifflin
Company The Second World War by Winston S. Churchill Alfred A.
Knopf, Inc. My Diaries by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Little, Brown
Company and Lord Beaverbrook War Memoirs of David Lloyd George by
David Lloyd George Little, Brown Company Memories and Reflections
by the Earl of Ox ford and Asquith Longmans, Green Company, Inc.
Our Partnership by Beatrice Webb William Morrow Company Lifes Ebb
and Flow by Frances, Countess of Warwick Nicholson Watson, Ltd.
London C. F. G. Masterman by Luch Masterman and War Diary by Lord
Riddell Odhams Press, Ltd. London Lord Randolph Churchill by
Winston S. Churchill 3. P. Putnams Sons Great Contemporaries by
Winston S. Churchill and Anglo-American Memories by George Smalley
Charles Scribners Sons The Aftermath by Winston S.Churchill Amid
These Storms by Winston S. Churchill, in footnotes referring to the
British tide Thoughts and Adventures Marlborough by Winston S.
Churchill A Roving Commission by Winston S. Churchill, in footnotes
referring to the British tide My Early Life The World Crisis by
Winston S. Churchill Fighting in Flanders by E...
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