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ISBN:	0241205638 (ISBN13: 9780241205631)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Winston Churchill
Literary Awards:	Arthur Ross Book Award Nominee (2019)

Churchill: Walking with Destiny

Andrew Roberts

Hardcover | Pages: 1105 pages

Rating: 4.63 | 2333 Users | 380 Reviews

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Title	:	Churchill: Walking with Destiny
Author	:	Andrew Roberts
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 1105 pages
Published	:	November 6th 2018 by Allen Lane (first published October 4th 2018)
Categories	:	Biography. History. Nonfiction. Politics. Biography Memoir

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A landmark reconsideration of the iconoclastic war leader, based on extensive new material, from private letters to war cabinet meetings, by the bestselling, award-winning author of Napoleon and The Storm of War.

When we seek an example of unalloyed courage, the man who comes to mind is Winston Churchill: the visionary leader, immune from the consensus of the day, who stood firmly for his beliefs when everyone doubted him. But how did young Winston become Churchill? What gave him the strength to take on the superior force of Nazi Germany when bombs rained on London and so many others had caved? In The Storm of War, Andrew Roberts gave us a tantalizing glimpse of Churchill the war leader. Now, at last, we have the full and definitive biography, as personally revealing as it is compulsively readable, about one of the great leaders of all time.

Roberts was granted exclusive access to extensive new material: the transcripts of war cabinet meetings - the equivalent of the Nixon and JFK tapes - diaries, letters, unpublished memoirs, and detailed notes taken by the king after their bi-weekly meetings. Having read every one of Churchill's letters, including deeply personal ones that Churchill's son Randolph had previously chosen to withhold, and spoken to more than one hundred people who knew or worked with him, Roberts identifies the hidden forces fueling Churchill's drive. Churchill put his faith in the British Empire and fought as hard to preserve it as he did to defend London. Having started his career in India and South Africa, he understood better than most idealists how hard it can be to pacify reluctant people far from home.

We think of Churchill as a hero of the age of mechanized warfare, but Roberts's masterwork reveals that he has as much to teach us about the challenges we face today and the fundamental values of courage, tenacity, leadership, and moral conviction.

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One of the best biographies I have read about Winston Churchill. Very interesting and thoroughly researched. I love reading biographies on historical leaders and Winston Churchill is my favorite. I have read many books on Winston Churchill, And this did not disappoint!!!! From his early age through childhood, through his military career in India, Sudan, South Africa, and Belgium and through his years as Britain's prime minister during World War II until the end of his life-This was a wonderful

As other reviewers have noted, why a new Churchill, especially with Martin Gilberts iconic tome?Roberts, a fine writer himself, has new sources, including King George VIs diary. The king, even several months after calling for Churchill, still wasnt sold on him. He may not have been totally sold until El Alamein and Torch.He also got to read Pamela Digby Churchill Harrimans love letters, providing more background on the Churchill family. Among the more scandalous references is that Winston and

I found it just as easy to read this biography as I do to read an essay by George Orwell because it is written with striking clarity and in a straightforward manner. I am not suggesting for one moment that it is not scholarly but that it is thoroughly palatable and enjoyable to read. Churchill had a puckish sense of humour and so has Andrew Roberts. Such a figure of Falstaffian early Elizabethan Regency Victorian and Edwardian proportions fully warrants over one thousand biographies but this

1. (February 13, 2019, Chapters 1-3)First off, Roberts loves Churchill, no question, but he is not blind to his faults and he's not about to let any reader of his book be blind to them, either, in which pursuit he lets Churchill speak for himself much of the time.On the issue of women voting, the young Churchill was profoundly chauvinist, arguing that 'only the most undesirable class of women are eager for the right,' and that 'Those women who discharged their duty to the state viz. marrying and

At last I had the authority to give direction over the whole scene. I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trialI thought I knew a good deal about it all, and I was sure I should not fail. Therefore, although impatient for the morning, I slept soundly and had no need for cheering dreams. Facts are better than dreams.- Winston Churchill, upon becoming Prime Minister in 1940How do you fit a life as long and full as

Excellently detailed, if somewhat hagiographical. I will need to read this again because it took five months to get through it.

Epigraph: "Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft." (Churchill)It's also a master course on human nature, because we see people in all sorts of situations and how they respond. As Faulkner rightly said: The past is never dead. It's not even past. It is always with us because people are always with us. The same situations are always with us and and how humans behave in the same way, including badly at times. But also how good can prevail. As Churchill himself