Churchill: Walking with Destiny

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'Undoubtedly the best single-volume life of Churchill ever written'
Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times

A Fresh and Unexpected Biography of Churchill

Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world.

Andrew Roberts delivers a magnificently fresh and intimate biography of Churchill, drawing on over forty new sources, including the private diaries of King George VI—resources never before used in any previous Churchill biography.

Key Features of the Biography

This book offers a balanced and compelling portrayal of Churchill:

• Unfiltered Character Study: The biography does not shy away from Churchill's faults while allowing readers to appreciate his virtues and character in full.
• Personal Insights: Explore Churchill’s titanic capacity for work (and drink), his ability to see the big picture, his willingness to take risks, and his insistence on being where the action was.
• Emotional Depth: Witness his good humour in desperate circumstances, the breadth and strength of his friendships, and his extraordinary propensity to burst into tears at unexpected moments.
• Core Personality: Understand the wellsprings of his personality—his lifelong desire to please his father (even long after his father's death), his aristocratic disdain for the opinions of almost everyone else, his love of the British Empire, and his sense of history and its connection to the present.

Churchill's Impact During WWII

Churchill’s influence during the Second World War was nothing short of extraordinary:

• Living Power: A scientist summoned by Churchill for technical advice wrote, 'It was the same whenever we met. I had a feeling of being recharged by a source of living power.'
• Battlefront Presence: Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's emissary, remarked, 'Wherever he was, there was a battlefront.'
• Superhuman Leadership: Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, Churchill's essential partner in strategy and his most severe critic in private, reflected in his diary, 'I thank God I was given such an opportunity of working alongside such a man, and of having my eyes opened to the fact that occasionally such supermen exist on this earth.'

This biography by Andrew Roberts stands as a definitive and captivating exploration of one of history's most iconic figures.