But Roberts seems to have accomplished the task with authority, clarity and precision. It also benefits from the author’s access to personal papers and notes unavailable to previous biographers of Churchill.Īnyone familiar with Winston Churchill’s life will appreciate the difficulty inherent in compressing his remarkably eventful nine decades into a single volume. What is clear to me, however, is that Roberts’s biography of Churchill is magisterial, impressively thorough and keenly perceptive. Because this is the first biography of Churchill I’ve read, I am unable to offer an opinion on the matter. Within weeks of its release this book was hailed as one of the very best single-volume biographies of Winston Churchill ever published. Roberts is an award-winning British author and journalist who has written more than a dozen books including “ Napoleon: A Life” (which inspired a BBC tv series), “ The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War” and “ House of Windsor.” Andrew Roberts’s biography “ Churchill: Walking with Destiny” was published in the fall of 2018 and quickly became a bestseller in both the US and UK.
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