Synopsis
From the admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle of Britain to eventual victory over Nazi Germany, Churchill oversaw some of the most important events the world has ever seen. Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature for his personal writing and cautioning against a powerful Soviet Russia in his later years in office, his larger-than-life and complex personality has...
Details
13 December 2012
1020 pages
9780330476072
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
There is no doubt that he has surpassed himself. This is the biography of the year.Robert McCrum, Observer
This is a first class, well-sustained work of history and a masterpiece of biography.Andrew Roberts, Sunday Telegraph
Lord Jenkins of Hillhead is an outstanding biographer . . . it has the narrative power, sweep and sparkle of the author in his prime.John Grigg, Times