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One of The Wall Street Journal**'s** Ten Best Books of 2018
One of The Economist's Best Books of 2018
One of The New York Times**'**s Notable Books of 2018
"Unarguably the best single-volume biography of Churchill . . . A
brilliant feat of storytelling, monumental in scope, yet put together
with tenderness for a man who had always believed that he would be
Britain's savior." --Wall Street Journal
In this landmark biography of Winston Churchill based on extensive new
material, the true genius of the man, statesman and leader can finally
be fully seen and understood--by the bestselling, award-winning author
of Napoleon and The Last King of America.
When we seek an example of great leaders with unalloyed courage, the
person who comes to mind is Winston Churchill: the iconic, visionary war
leader immune from the consensus of the day, who stood firmly for his
beliefs when everyone doubted him. But how did young Winston become
Churchill? What gave him the strength to take on the superior force of
Nazi Germany when bombs rained on London and so many others had caved?
In Churchill, Andrew Roberts gives readers the full and definitive
Winston Churchill, from birth to lasting legacy, as personally revealing
as it is compulsively readable.
Roberts gained exclusive access to extensive new material: transcripts
of War Cabinet meetings, diaries, letters and unpublished memoirs from
Churchill's contemporaries. The Royal Family permitted Roberts--in a
first for a Churchill biographer--to read the detailed notes taken by
King George VI in his diary after his weekly meetings with Churchill
during World War II. This treasure trove of access allows Roberts to
understand the man in revelatory new ways, and to identify the hidden
forces fueling Churchill's legendary drive.
We think of Churchill as a hero who saved civilization from the evils of
Nazism and warned of the grave crimes of Soviet communism, but Roberts's
masterwork reveals that he has as much to teach us about the challenges
leaders face today--and the fundamental values of courage, tenacity,
leadership and moral conviction.
