One of the world's great historians has written a biography of the man who is one of the immense figures of the last century. And perhaps surprisingly, the book is short. Just 192 pages. It is pungent ...
CHURCHILL: Walking With Destiny. By Andrew Roberts. Viking. 982 pages. $40. Taking on a nearly 1,000-page biography of Winston Spencer Churchill is apt to leave most readers feeling as if their lives ...
A prolific author (and ex-politician), Jenkins judges Churchill to be "the greatest human being ever to occupy Downing Street." In this superb biography, the author's wit and familiarity with British ...
How does a journalist who has never written a book before and was previously best known for his features in The Palm Beach Post end up finishing a bestselling biography series of the most commanding ...
Paul Reid was a newspaper feature writer and an award-winning food critic at a Florida newspaper when his ailing friend, William Manchester, asked him to complete the epic trilogy and biography of the ...
This magisterial three--volume biography of Winston Church-ill, begun by William Manchester nearly 30 years ago, has at last reached completion, though the path to its finale took a circuitous trip ...
Earlier this year, retired astronaut Scott Kelly posted a harmless tweet quoting Winston Churchill’s famous line, “In victory, magnanimity.” Left-wing Twitter went berserk, and Kelly felt obliged to ...
Martin Gilbert, Winston Churchill’s official biographer and a leading historian of the Holocaust, died Tuesday in London after a lengthy illness. He was 78. British senior civil servant John Chilcot ...
When Winston Churchill entered Parliament following the 1900 general election, he was 26, and already famous. He had reported on or served in no fewer than four bloody conflicts, in Cuba, Afghanistan, ...
A new biography about Britain's former prime minister Winston Churchill, Churchill: Walking with Destiny, was recently published in China by Beijing-based CITIC Press Group, and has achieved 9.1 ...
Less than two weeks after it was announced that his three-volume Winston Churchill biography would be completed, historian William Manchester died Tuesday. He was 82. Manchester, a former Wesleyan ...