Above all, it shows us the wellsprings of his personality - his lifelong desire to please his father (even long after his father's death) but aristocratic disdain for the opinions of almost everyone else, his love of the British Empire, his sense of history and its connection to the present. The book in no way conceals Churchill's faults and it allows the reader to appreciate his virtues and character in full: his titanic capacity for work (and drink), his ability see the big picture, his willingness to take risks and insistence on being where the action was, his good humour even in the most desperate circumstances, the breadth and strength of his friendships and his extraordinary propensity to burst into tears at unexpected moments. The historian Andrew Roberts’s insight about Churchill’s relation to fate in Churchill: Walking With Destiny comes directly from the subject himself. A Goalhanger Films production Produced by Harry. Andrew Roberts now draws on over forty new sources, including the private diaries of King George VI, used in no previous Churchill biography to depict him more intimately and persuasively than any of its predecessors. Al Murray and James Holland are joined by legendary historian and Churchill biographer Andrew Roberts.

There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world. Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. The blockbuster biography of the greatest Briton, by one of Britain's bestselling historians.

Churchill by andrew roberts