Churchill: A Life
Martin Gilbert’s one-volume life of Winston Churchill, distilled from the official biography he spent decades writing. It follows Churchill from his Victorian childhood and early soldiering through the wilderness years, his leadership in the Second World War and his return to power in the 1950s, drawing throughout on Churchill’s own papers.
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Anthony Seldon
I remember when I was a very young researcher going to interview Martin Gilbert at a house he had in west London and going down to his basement. There were a lot of shelves in this vast basement and every shelf was piled with documents about Churchill’s life. It was the excitement of being with somebody who was so determined to get every single fact right.
Interview · December 2011
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