Churchill: A LifeDistilled from years of meticulous research and documentation, filled with material unavailable when the earliest books of the official biography's eight volumes went to press, Churchill is a brilliant marriage of the hard facts of the public life and the intimate details of the private man. The result is a vital portrait of one of the most remarkable men of any age as well as a revealing depiction of a man of extraordinary courage and imagination. |
Contents
Childhood | xvii |
Harrow | 13 |
Towards the Army | 29 |
Second Lieutenant | 45 |
In Action | 69 |
To Omdurman and Beyond | 79 |
South Africa Adventure Capture Escape | 101 |
Into Parliament | 127 |
Out of Office | 485 |
The Moment of Truth | 516 |
No Place for Churchill | 543 |
From Munich to War | 575 |
Return to the Admiralty | 595 |
Prime Minister | 617 |
Britain at Bay | 651 |
The Widening War | 682 |
Revolt and Responsibilities | 161 |
The Social Field | 187 |
Home Secretary | 205 |
At the Admiralty | 233 |
The Coming of War in 1914 | 257 |
War | 271 |
Isolation and Escape | 303 |
In the Trenches | 325 |
Deep and Ceaseless Torment | 355 |
Minister of Munitions | 369 |
At the War Office | 397 |
Colonial Secretary | 425 |
Return to the Wilderness | 449 |
At the Exchequer | 461 |
Planning for Victory | 707 |
Illness and Recovery | 735 |
Normandy and Beyond | 749 |
War and Diplomacy | 775 |
Advance Britannia | 801 |
An Iron Curtain | 815 |
Mapping the Past Guiding the Future | 843 |
Prime Minister in Peacetime | 871 |
Recovery Last Ambition Resignation | 887 |
Last Years | 915 |
Maps | 933 |
Index | 955 |
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