CHURCHILL

The finest biography of Churchill, enriched with previously unpublished documents.

A towering publishing success. Of Churchill, one believes, everything has been said — first and foremost by himself. And yet Andrew Roberts has managed to unearth press articles, private correspondence, personal diaries — not the least of which is that of King George VI, hitherto kept under lock and key — that feature in none of the approximately one thousand biographies already devoted to this essential figure of Great Britain and of the 20th century.

All of this allows him to offer an extraordinarily lively narrative, founded on an abundance of citations now considered "classics", but also often little-known or even unpublished, which cast a sometimes convergent, sometimes contrasting light on the man Churchill. Separating fact from fiction, demolishing the many myths and even the slanders that cling to his name, while acknowledging the justified criticisms from which he is far from exempt, Roberts paints with masterly skill the portrait of this "Old Lion" whose entire life before 1940 did nothing but prepare the great work that his war years remain.

He delivers what is without doubt the finest biography of this giant of history.