Best biography on winston churchill
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Reading the Best Biographies of All Time
Churchill: Walking with Destiny
by Andrew Roberts
1, pages
Viking
Published: October
Andrew Roberts&#;s biography &#;Churchill: Walking with Destiny&#; was published in the fall of and quickly became a bestseller in both the US and UK. Roberts is an award-winning British author and journalist who has written more than a dozen books including &#;Napoleon: A Life&#; (which inspired a BBC tv series), &#;The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War&#; and &#;House of Windsor.&#;
Within weeks of its release this book was hailed as one of the very best single-volume biographies of Winston Churchill ever published. Because this is the first biography of Churchill I&#;ve read, I am unable to offer an opinion on the matter. What is clear to me, however, is that Roberts&#;s biography of Churchill is magisterial, impressively thorough and keenly perceptive. It also benefits from the author&#;s access to personal papers and notes
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The 10 Best Books By and About Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill is one of those historical figures who almost needs no introduction. As Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, he led his country through the darkest days of World War II and became a symbol of strength, stability, and effective leadership. But Churchill’s legacy extends far beyond his most famous moment in the spotlight.
Born in to an aristocratic family, Churchill grew up during the reign of Queen Victoria and bore witness to many events that shaped the 20th century. He served as a war correspondent in his twenties, became a Member of Parliament in , and fought in the First World War, all before his famous tenure as Prime Minister. After the war, his political party was defeated in the general election and he turned his attention to his life-long love of writing, penning a novel and several well-received history volumes. He re-entered the political stage in the s, aggressively denouncing the Soviet Union and servi
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The best books on Winston Churchill
Your most recent book is Churchill: A Life in the News. Churchill was making the news even before he became a politician, as a soldier, but also, ganska literally, as a reporter. What’s your focus in the book?
Churchill: A Life in the News takes the story from his birth. His birth was reported in The Times, actually on the front page, which in those days carried these little personal ads. So that was his first mention in the press. As the son of a well-known politician, Lord Randolph Churchill, he got sporadisk mentions through his childhood and his teenage years. And then he exploded onto the scene when, as a young man in the s, he joined the army and wrote journalistic accounts of small wars, starting in Cuba, then the North-West Frontier in India, then the Sudan, then the Boer War.
He was a very good reporter, very interesting, and certainly one of the most highly paid. That background also influenced him when he was prime min