‘By drawing on many previously untapped sources, Mr Roberts has produced a more complete picture of his subject than any previous biography.’ Churchill himself would have wanted: colossal, energetic, deeply knowledgeable, properly critical, but also sympathetic and, in places, deliciously funny.’ ‘It’s the sort of biography that, one feels. It’s a triumph of the biographer’s art: richly textured, full of lightly-worn authority and, in the final reckoning, irresistibly stirring.’ … Roberts has a novelist’s eye for detail. ‘As Andrew Roberts reveals in this wonderfully readable, unashamedly admiring yet far from uncritical biography, Churchill was shaped by the events of his youth. … All Roberts’s 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.’ … It is always a risk to call any biography definitive but Roberts has had access to more archive material than any previous researcher into Churchill’s life. ‘Andrew Roberts’ brilliant, breathtaking, unputdownable new biography of our greatest Prime Minister. This is an exceptionally fine life of an exceptional man.’ ‘This epic biography … reveals much of the man behind the bulldog Britishness. ‘The best single-volume life imaginable of a man whose life it would seem technically impossible to get into a single volume.’ ‘Undoubtedly the best single-volume life of Churchill ever written.’ SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN UK NON-FICTION BESTSELLER
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