About the Book: Churchill
Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British
History. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to
be the greatest man in the world. There have been over a thousand previous
biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts now draws on over forty new sources,
including the private diaries of King George VI, used in no previous Churchill
biography to depict him more intimately and persuasively than any of its
predecessors. The book in no way conceals Churchills faults and it allows the
reader to appreciate his virtues and character in full: his