A biography of Churchill covering his early life, the soldier, the foreign correspondent, the young politician, his wilderness years, his years as Prime Minister at the age of 65 and his subsequent career. The author examines the private man, the journalist, historian, painter and family man.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Birth and parentage; schoolboy and cadet; subaltern and war correspondent; Member of Parliament; Colonial Under-secretary; President of the Board of Trade; Home Secretary; First Lord of the Admiralty; early married life; Antwerp and the Dardanelles; Battalion Commander and Opposition Spokesman; munitions; Secretary of State in the post-war coalition; out of Parliament, 1922-4; Chancellor of the Exchequer; private life and public critics, 1918-29; out of office - Indian affairs; the road to war; private life - historian and journalist, 1929-39; First Lord again; the finest hour; the expanding war; 1942, the critical year; from Alamein to Overlord; from D-day to VE-day; the caretaker government and the election, May to July 1945; Leader of the Opposition 1945-49; on the edge of power 1950-1; Prime Minister again 1951-5; in retirement, 1955-65. Appendices: Offices of State held by Churchill; Winston Churchill's books; select list of unpublished sources; select bibliography of books on Churchill.
