£50.00
Author: Andrew Roberts
About the Book:
To mark the 150th anniversary of Winston Churchill's birth, Andrew Roberts’s landmark biography has been reissued in a handsome limited edition, signed by the author. Roberts’s biography stands out for its use of unique sources to create the genre's most complete picture of Churchill-the-man to date.
Transcending historical narrative, this biography attempts to understand Churchill as a politician, leader and man, delving into the relationships, challenges and triumphs which characterised his life. This biography is a must-read for anyone who wishes to understand the man who remains, arguably, the most influential Briton of the twentieth century and perhaps beyond. These handsome editions do this significant anniversary justice.
About the Author:
Andrew Roberts 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 Napoléon 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 King's College, London, and the Bonnie and Tom McCloskey Distinguished Visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.