Churchill: A Life

by Martin Gilbert

Overview

About the Author

Martin Gilbert is a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He is well known as the official biographer of Churchill, and as a chronicler of the Holocaust and of Jewish history. He was knighted in 1995.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780805023961
Publisher:	Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	10/15/1992
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	1088
Product dimensions:	5.96(w) x 9.20(h) x 2.07(d)

About the Author

Sir Martin Gilbert is one of Britain’s most distinguished historians. As well as being the official biographer of Churchill, he is well known as a chronicler of the Holocaust and Jewish history. Among his many books is The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust.

Table of Contents

	Illustrations	ix
	List of Maps	xv
	Preface	xvii
	Acknowledgements	xxi
1	Childhood	1
2	Harrow	19
3	Towards the Army	35
4	Second Lieutenant	51
5	In Action	75
6	To Omdurman and beyond	85
7	South Africa: Adventure, Capture, Escape	107
8	Into Parliament	133
9	Revolt and Responsibilities	167
10	The Social Field	193
11	Home Secretary	211
12	At the Admiralty	239
13	The Coming of War in 1914	263
14	War	277
15	Isolation and Escape	309
16	In the Trenches	331
17	'Deep and Ceaseless Torments'	361
18	Minister of Munitions	375
19	At the War Office	403
20	Colonial Secretary	431
21	Return to the Wilderness	455
22	At the Exchequer	467
23	Out of Office	491
24	The Moment of Truth	535
25	No Place for Churchill	571
26	From Munich to War	603
27	Return to the Admiralty	623
28	Prime Minister	645
29	Britain at Bay	679
30	The Widening War	701
31	Planning for Victory	735
32	Illness and Recovery	763
33	Normandy and Beyond	777
34	War and Diplomacy	803
35	'Advance, Britannia!'	829
36	'An Iron Curtain'	843
37	Mapping the Past, Guiding the Future	871
38	Prime Minister in Peacetime	899
39	Recovery, Last Ambition, Resignation	915
40	Last Years	943
	Maps	961
	Index	983

Editorial Reviews

Mr. Gilbert's job was to bring alive before his readers a man of extraordinary genius and scarcely less extraordinary destiny. He has done so triumphantly.” —Hugh Brogan, The New York Times Book Review

“A richly textured and deeply moving portrait of greatness.” —The Los Angeles Times

“By far the most lucid, comprehensive, and authoritative account of Churchill that has been offered in a single volume. It furnishes a crown to Gilbert's already prodigious labors.” —Philip Ziegler, The Telegraph (London)

“It would seem impossible to distill the eight volumes of Churchill's authorized biography into a single volume, even one of a thousand pages. But that is what Martin Gilbert has done, and the result does not seem pinched at all. It is of course a grand story.” —The Washington Post Book World

“The most scholarly study of Churchill in war and peace ever written . . . essential diplomatic history and enlightening personal history.” —Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times

From the Publisher

Author of an eight-volume official biography of Winston Churchill, Gilbert here distills his vast knowledge into a lucid, comprehensive and authoritative life of the man considered by many to have been the outstanding public figure of the 20th century. Photos. (Oct.)

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