Martin gilbert churchill a life

‘By far the most lucid, comprehensive and authoritative account of Churchill that has been offered in a single volume’ Daily Telegraph

Drawing on decades of unprecedented access to Winston Churchill’s family and estate, this classic bestseller remains the definitive biography of Britain’s greatest prime minister. At once intimate and vastly ambitious, it transforms our understanding of who Churchill was and what he accomplished.

‘A masterpiece of scholarship . . . Explores the strategic labyrinths of two world wars with an enviable clarity.’ Guardian

‘Gilbert is, above all, a marshaller of material on a gigantic scale . . . The nakedness of the narrative proclaims its honesty, its unpretentiousness and its erudition.’ The Times

‘One of the greatest histories of our time.’ Margaret Thatcher

‘Genuinely riveting . . . Genius, courage, generosity, humour and imagination shine through.’ Financial Times

‘A stupendous book. He has told the truth.’ A. J. P. Taylor

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The classic, bestselling, official biography of Winston Churchill, back in print for the first time in two decades

‘By far the most lucid, comprehensive and authoritative konto of Churchill that has been offered in a single volume’ Daily Telegraph

Drawing on decades of unprecedented access to Winston Churchill’s family and estate, this classic bestseller remains the definitive biography of Britain’s greatest prime minister. At once intimate and vastly ambitious, it transforms our understanding of who Churchill was and what he accomplished.

‘A masterpiece of scholarship . . . Explores the strategic labyrinths of two world wars with an enviable clarity.’ Guardian

‘Gilbert is, above all, a marshaller of material on a gigantic scale . . . The nakedness of the narrative proclaims its honesty, its unpretentiousness and its erudition.’ The Times

‘One of the greatest histories of our time.’ Margaret

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Churchill, A Life

The definitive biography

Description

Choosing the most revealing insights from Churchill&#;s public and private life, Gilbert presents the essence of the man, from his early life as a schoolboy and soldier to his years as war leader and elder statesman. The book provides a swiftly moving narrative of Churchill&#;s fifty-five years of public life: a remarkable panorama of vivid, tempestuous an often controversial episodes. In this book, as in no other, the true Churchill emerges.

Book Excerpt

On an August visit to Munich “ where one of Randolph's acquaintances, Ernst Hanfstaengel, a friend of Hitler, tried to arrange a meeting between Hitler and Churchill in Churchill's hotel. “Churchill said he was willing to meet the Nazi party leader, though Hanfstaengel later recalled how, during dinner beforehand, he 'taxed me about Hitler's anti-Semitic views'. Hitler made no appearance that night. On the following day Hanfstaengel again tried