Churchill

This biography follows Winston Churchill from his birth in 1874 through soldiering, journalism, and a long parliamentary career to his death in 1965. Gilbert traces the early wars, the Admiralty, the First World War and its aftermath, the wilderness years of the 1930s, the premiership of 1940-45, the postwar opposition and second ministry, and retirement. The narrative is built from letters, speeches, and official papers, with Churchill's own words used at length. It is a full-life political biography, a condensed counterpart to Gilbert's multi-volume official life, centred on office, war direction, and party conflict rather than private psychology alone.

Quarter bound in dark purple buckram, with gilt lettered dark grey cloth boards. Blue photo pictorial slipcase.