Winston S. Churchill: Road to Victory, 1941-1945 - Hardcover

Martin Gilbert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395378591 ISBN 13: 9780395378595

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1986

Synopsis

Personal letters, official documents, telegrams, diary entries, and private papers supplement Randolph Churchill's official biography of his father

About this title

About the Author:

Sir Martin Gilbert was born in England in 1936. He is a graduate of Oxford University, from which he holds a doctorate of letters. In 1962, he began work as one of Randolph Churchill s research assistants, and in 1968, after Randolph Churchill s death, he became the official biographer of Winston Churchill. Over forty-eight years of research and writing, Gilbert has published eighty books."

From Publishers Weekly:

This penultimate entry in the monumental series is as comprehensive as a biography could possibly be and remarkable for the intimate view it presents of Britain's wartime leader. Not only does Gilbert describe the day-to-day development of war plans, foreign policy and internal politics, but he pays close attention to Churchill's private life including his health (which, we learn here, was often poor). No other biographer has succeeded in conveying the breadth of Churchill's daily productivity, his daring improvisational skills or his flexibility of thought during the crisis-ridden war years. The story told here is based primarily on two sets of unpublished material: Churchill's papers and the papers of the Prime Minister's Office and Ministry of Defense. The sheer size of the volume (1417 pages) allows Gilbert to present considerable detailed material regarding Churchill's dealings with Roosevelt and Stalin that has not heretofore seen print. Photos.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0395378591
• ISBN 13: 9780395378595
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1417