Churchill: Walking with Destiny

- Blurb -

Winston C hurchill dominates our view of the history of Britain in the twentieth century - the brash, brave and ambitious young aristocrat who sought out danger in late Victorian wars, the mercurial First Lord of the Admiralty who was responsible for the Dardanelles disaster in 1915, the C olonial Secretary who rode with T. E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell at the Pyramids, the C hancellor who took the country back to the Gold Standard and crushed the General Strike in 1926, and then spent more than ten years in the political wilderness - and who, finally, was summoned to save his country in 1940. 'I felt that I was walking with destiny, and all my life had been but preparation for that hour.' Andrew Roberts' titanic new biography re-interprets all these events, especially C hurchill's leadership during the Second World War, which he sees through the prism of all C hurchill's earlier life. He gives full visibility to C hurchill's flaws, and brilliantly explains his genius. He has used over forty collections of papers not available to C hurchill's previous biographer Roy Jenkins (2001) and he is the first C hurchill biographer to be granted access by the Queen to the private diaries of King George VI. This is the C hurchill biography for our times.