A magnificently fresh and unexpected biography of The Greatest Briton, by one of Britain's best-selling historians.
Andrew Roberts is a biographer and historian of international renown whose books include Salisbury- Victorian Titan (winner, the Wolfson Prize for History); Masters and Commanders; and The Storm of War, which reached No. 2 on the Sunday Times bestseller list. His most recent book was Napoleon the Great (2014), which won the Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoleon. Roberts is a Fellow of the Royal Societies of Literature and Arts. He appears regularly on British television and radio and writes for the Sunday Telegraph, Spectator, Literary Review, Mail on Sunday and Daily Telegraph.
This terrific book, which bursts with character, humour and
incident on almost every page ... is undoubtedly the best
single-volume life of Churchill ever written
*Sunday Times*
The best single-volume life imaginable
*Sunday Telegraph*
It'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
*Sunday Telegraph*
An original portrait of an all-too-familiar figure ... He enriches
the saga with wonderful examples of Churchill's aristocratic
eccentricity, glittering oratory and wit
*Literary Review*
Roberts 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*
A stupendous achievement: lucid, erudite, intelligent, but also
inspiring. Roberts catches the imperishable grandeur of Churchill's
life as no other historian has done
*Standpoint*
As Andrew Roberts reminds us in this epic biography ... Churchill's
career provides ample proof that fact can be far more extraordinary
than fiction
*Daily Mail*
A work of unequalled scholarship. Read it and you will not have to
bother with the previous 1,000 biographies
*Tablet*
A heroic biography, appropriately matched to the ambition, egotism
and undoubted achievement of the life it describes
*Finest Hour*
Brilliant, 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
*Evening Standard*
In 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*
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