{"product_id":"churchill-9780141981253","title":"Churchill","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, ECONOMIST, DAILY TELEGRAPH, EVENING STANDARD, OBSERVER\u003c\/i\u003e BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Undoubtedly the best single-volume life of Churchill ever written'' Dominic Sandbrook, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA magnificently fresh and unexpected biography of Churchill, by one of Britain''s most acclaimed historians\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century  British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many  thought him to be the greatest man in the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere 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, used in no previous Churchill biography to depict him more  intimately and persuasively than any of its predecessors. The book in no  way 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 was, his good humour even in  the most desperate circumstances, the breadth and strength of his  friendships and his extraordinary 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the Second World War,  Churchill summoned a particular scientist to see him several times for technical advice. ''It was the same whenever we met'', wrote the young  man, ''I had a feeling of being recharged by a source of living power.''  Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt''s emissary, wrote ''Wherever he was,  there was a battlefront.'' Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, Churchill''s  essential partner in strategy and most severe critic in private, wrote  in his diary, ''I thank God I was given such an opportunity of working alongside such a man, and of having my eyes opened to the fact that occasionally such supermen exist on this earth.''\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis terrific book, which bursts with character, humour and incident on almost every page ... is undoubtedly the best single-volume life of Churchill ever written -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eThe best single-volume life imaginable -- Simon Heffer * Sunday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eIt's the sort of biography that, one feels, Churchill himself would have wanted. Colossal, energetic, deeply knowledgeable, properly critical, but also sympathetic and, in places, deliciously funny -- Noel Malcolm * Sunday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eAn original portrait of an all-too-familiar figure ... He enriches the saga with wonderful examples of Churchill's aristocratic eccentricity, glittering oratory and wit -- Piers Brendon * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eRoberts has produced a more complete picture of his subject than any previous biography. His certainly knocks into a cocked hat Boris Johnson's boisterously self-referential effort of a few years ago * Economist *\u003cbr\u003eA stupendous achievement: lucid, erudite, intelligent, but also inspiring. Roberts catches the imperishable grandeur of Churchill's life as no other historian has done -- Daniel Johnson * Standpoint *\u003cbr\u003eAs Andrew Roberts reminds us in this epic biography ... Churchill's career provides ample proof that fact can be far more extraordinary than fiction -- Nick Rennison * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003eA work of unequalled scholarship. Read it and you will not have to bother with the previous 1,000 biographies -- Paul Routledge * Tablet *\u003cbr\u003eA heroic biography, appropriately matched to the ambition, egotism and undoubted achievement of the life it describes -- John Campbell * Finest Hour *\u003cbr\u003eBrilliant, breathtaking, unputdownable ... All Roberts's past life has been but a preparation for this hour and this work, and this brilliant book is a fitting crown to his own career -- Michael Gove * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003eIn a single volume, Andrew Roberts has captured the essence of one of the world's most impactful, most memorable statesmen. It is the crowning achievement of his career - and will become the definitive biography of its subject. -- Henry Kissinger","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732500656471,"sku":"9780141981253","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780141981253.jpg?v=1719997159","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/churchill-9780141981253","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}