In Search of Churchill - Hardcover

Gilbert, Martin

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ISBN 10: 0002153564 ISBN 13: 9780002153560

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1994

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Martin Gilbert's life of Winston Churchill runs to eight main volumes with more than 15 supplementary volumes. He began working on the biography 25 years ago, when he was summoned by Randolph Churchill to his home in East Bergholt. He expected this to be a day's visit, but he was taken on as Randolph's assistant, and after his death appointed as his successor. In search of the "true" Churchill, Martin Gilbert has travelled all over the world in Churchill's footsteps: the Western Front, Gallipoli, Palestine, India and the sites of the World War II Allied summits. In the course of writing the book, he met all the surviving political leaders of Churchill's era and has many stories to tell about them. This personal account of Martin Gilbert's quest to capture the most famous Prime Minister of Great Britain is also in part a history of our times. The author combines these two in a narrative balanced in argument and anecdote.

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Hardcover, dustjacket, this is almost a new copy without any traces of use, but a bit dusty perhaps

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"Penetrating . . . beautifully rounds out and humanizes the character of the greatest statesman of the twentieth century." San Francisco Chronicle.

"A multifaceted gem, sparkling with anecdotes and insights about the nature of biography, the challenges and rewards of historical research, and of course Winston Churchill." Richmond Times–Dispatch

"Everything about Winston Churchill is extraordinary. During his excavation of his subject, Martin Gilbert has discovered many gems. In this book he holds some of the most gorgeous jewels up to the light for us to admire." The Spectator.

"Gilbert here gives us Churchill′s vast humanity with the politics largely left out. Readers daunted by the 8,000–odd pages of the official life should start here. They will love it." The Times (London).

"The portrait of Winston Churchill is . . . vivid and painted with an affection and humour that rarely appear in the official biography." London Daily Telegraph.

"The work [Gilbert] has done puts all historians of the twentieth century, and all students of Churchill, incalculably in his debt." London Sunday Telegraph.

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