Table of Contents

Prologue
1: The Youngest Man in Europe 1874-1901
2: The Renegade 1901-1911
3: The Lilliput Napoleon 1911-1915
4: The Winstonburg Line 1915-1924
5: Respectability Won and Lost 1924-1939
6: The Making of a Hero 1939-1945
7: Climbing Olympus 1945-1965
8: Churchill Past and Present
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Paul Addison is an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars at the University of Edinburgh.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition the best short book on Britain's wartime PM'
Daily Express
`This is a highly readable short biography of a hero with feet of clay'
Lloyd's List
`gloriously readable style and lightly-worn scholarship'
Scotsman
`short but masterly book . . . intriguing, penetrating and thoughtful'
Mail on Sunday
`a considerable achievement . . . could be read with profit and enjoyment by anyone interested in modern history'
Independent
`a treat . . . full of arresting insights . . . scrupulously accurate in areas where other biographers frequently trip'
Finest Hour: Journal of the Churchill Centre and Societies