Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts Hardcover Book

Description: Churchill by Andrew Roberts A signed and numbered limited edition of the best single-volume life of Churchill ever written to mark the 150th anniversary of his birthWinston 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 titanic capacity for work (and drink), his ability see the big picture, his willingness to take risks and insistence on being where the action was, his good humour even in the most desperate circumstances, the breadth and strength of his friendships and his extraordinary propensity to burst into tears at unexpected moments. Above all, it shows us the wellsprings of his personality - his lifelong desire to please his father (even long after his fathers death) but aristocratic disdain for the opinions of almost everyone else, his love of the British Empire, his sense of history and its connection to the present.During the Second World War, Churchill summoned a particular scientist to see him several times for technical advice. It was the same whenever we met, wrote the young man, I had a feeling of being recharged by a source of living power. Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelts emissary, wrote Wherever he was, there was a battlefront. Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, Churchills essential partner in strategy and most severe critic in private, wrote in his diary, I thank God I was given such an opportunity of working alongside such a man, and of having my eyes opened to the fact that occasionally such supermen exist on this earth. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Andrew Roberts (Lord Roberts of Belgravia) is a biographer and historian of international renown whose books include Salisbury- Victorian Titan (winner of the Wolfson Prize for History), Masters and Commanders (winner of the Emery Reves Award), The Storm of War (winner of the British Army Book Prize), Napoleon the Great (winner of the Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoleon and the Los Angeles Times Biography Prize), and George III (winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography). Roberts is a Fellow of the Royal Societies of Literature and the Royal Historical Society, and a Trustee of the International Churchill Society. He is currently Visiting Professor at the Department of War Studies at Kings College, London, and the Bonnie and Tom McCloskey Distinguished Visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His website is www.andrew-roberts.net. Review This terrific book, which bursts with character, humour and incident on almost every page ... is undoubtedly the best single-volume life of Churchill ever written -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times *The best single-volume life imaginable -- Simon Heffer * Sunday Telegraph *Its the sort of biography that, one feels, Churchill himself would have wanted. Colossal, energetic, deeply knowledgeable, properly critical, but also sympathetic and, in places, deliciously funny -- Noel Malcolm * Sunday Telegraph *An original portrait of an all-too-familiar figure ... He enriches the saga with wonderful examples of Churchills aristocratic eccentricity, glittering oratory and wit -- Piers Brendon * Literary Review *Roberts has produced a more complete picture of his subject than any previous biography. His certainly knocks into a cocked hat Boris Johnsons boisterously self-referential effort of a few years ago * Economist *Brilliant, breathtaking, unputdownable ... All Robertss past life has been but a preparation for this hour and this work, and this brilliant book is a fitting crown to his own career -- Michael Gove * Evening Standard * Details ISBN024174220X Author Andrew Roberts Pages 1152 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Year 2024 ISBN-13 9780241742204 Format Hardcover Imprint Allen Lane Subtitle Walking with Destiny Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 941.084092 Audience General ISBN-10 024174220X NZ Release Date 2025-03-24 AU Release Date 2025-03-24 Publication Date 2024-11-07 UK Release Date 2024-11-07 Alternative 9780241205648 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:168447767;

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