Winston Churchill towers over each other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the point of his death on the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man on this planet.
There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts now draws on over forty new sources, including the private diaries of King George VI, utilized in no previous Churchill biography to depict him more intimately and persuasively than any of its predecessors. The book under no circumstances conceals Churchill’s faults and it allows the reader to appreciate his virtues and character in full- his titanic capacity for work (and drink), his ability see the big picture, his willingness to take risks and insistence on being where the action used to be, his good humour even in probably the most desperate circumstances, the breadth and strength of his friendships and his atypical propensity to burst into tears at unexpected moments. Above all, it shows us the wellsprings of his personality – his lifelong desire to please his father (even long after his father’s death) but aristocratic disdain for the opinions of almost everyone else, his love of the British Empire, his sense of history and its connection to the present.
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