One of the world's great historians has written a biography of the man who is one of the immense figures of the last century. And perhaps surprisingly, the book is short. Just 192 pages. It is pungent ...
CHURCHILL: Walking With Destiny. By Andrew Roberts. Viking. 982 pages. $40. Taking on a nearly 1,000-page biography of Winston Spencer Churchill is apt to leave most readers feeling as if their lives ...
A prolific author (and ex-politician), Jenkins judges Churchill to be "the greatest human being ever to occupy Downing Street." In this superb biography, the author's wit and familiarity with British ...
We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Letter news every morning. Tony Barber reviews Andrew Roberts’ lengthy biography Churchill: Walking with Destiny, which covers his ...
Winston and the Windsors” covers Churchill’s life across six monarchs, from his birth during Queen Victoria’s reign through ...
Paul Reid was a newspaper feature writer and an award-winning food critic at a Florida newspaper when his ailing friend, William Manchester, asked him to complete the epic trilogy and biography of the ...
How does a journalist who has never written a book before and was previously best known for his features in The Palm Beach Post end up finishing a bestselling biography series of the most commanding ...
When Winston Churchill entered Parliament following the 1900 general election, he was 26, and already famous. He had reported on or served in no fewer than four bloody conflicts, in Cuba, Afghanistan, ...
Earlier this year, retired astronaut Scott Kelly posted a harmless tweet quoting Winston Churchill’s famous line, “In victory, magnanimity.” Left-wing Twitter went berserk, and Kelly felt obliged to ...