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Churchill

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1st July 2011

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Uniquely endowed with talent, energy and determination, Winston Churchill was, as a close wartime colleague put it, ‘unlike anyone you have ever met before’.

To many, he was the saviour of the nation, even of Western civilization, ‘the greatest Briton’ who ever lived. Others would have agreed with Evelyn Waugh who described him ‘always in the wrong, surrounded by crooks, a terrible father, a radio personality’. Whatever one’s view, Winston Churchill remains splendidly unreduced and enormous fun.

Ashley Jackson describes the contours and contradictions of Churchill’s remarkable life and career as a soldier, politician, historian, journalist, painter and homemaker. In doing so, he resists the temptation to conflate Churchill’s post-war career with Britain’s demise on the international stage. Nor does he endorse the notion that Churchill became an anachronism as he lived and continued to work, at a prodigious rate, through his seventies and eighties.

From thrusting subaltern to high-flying politician, Cabinet outcast to elder statesman, this is the eternally fascinating story of Winston Churchill’s appointment with destiny.

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Reviews

BBC History Magazine
'A beautifully written account that runs efficiently and with confidence over the full course of Churchill's career ... warmly recommended' BBC History Magazine.
Daily Express
'A pleasure to read' Daily Express.
Daily Express
'beautifully written ... Ashley Jackson manages to convey the drama and fun that surrounded the great man' Daily Express.
Mail on Sunday
'Packs a terrific punch and succeeds in keeping its mercurial subject sharply in focus' Mail on Sunday.
Winston Churchill Journal
'The best medium-length Churchill biography now available' Finest Hour: The Winston Churchill Journal.
Times Literary Supplement
'succinct and and even-handed study' Times Literary Supplement.