Churchill. Walking With Destiny

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Allen Lane
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2018
Edition: First Edition

Description: 1105 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Winston Churchill dominates our view of the history of Britain in the twentieth century - the brash, brave and ambitious young aristocrat who sought out danger in late Victorian wars, the mercurial First Lord of the Admiralty who was responsible for the Dardanelles disaster in 1915, the Home Secretary who crushed the General Strike in 1926, the Colonial Secretary who rode with T. E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell at the Pyramids, the Chancellor who took the country back to the Gold Standard and then spent more than ten years in the political wilderness - and who, finally, was summoned to save his country in 1940. I felt that I was walking with destiny, and all my life had been but preparation for that hour. Andrew Roberts titanic new biography interprets all these events, especially Churchills leadership during the Second World War, which he sees through the prism of all Churchills earlier life. He gives full visibility to Churchills flaws, and brilliantly explains his genius. Roberts has used over forty collections of papers not available to Churchills previous biographer Roy Jenkins (2001) and he is the first Churchill biographer to be granted access by the Queen to the private diaries of King George VI. This is the Churchill biography for our times and the next generation.

ISBN: 9780241205631