Acclaimed historian Roy Jenkins presents a comprehensive biography of Winston Churchill, an icon of modern history, from his childhood to the critical World War II period and beyond-a New York Times bestseller.
"This is a first class, well-sustained work of history and a masterpiece of biography… It will be a brave, not to say foolhardy, author who attempts to write another life of Churchill for at least a decade, perhaps longer."-Andrew Roberts, Sunday Telegraph
Roy Jenkins combines unparalleled command of British political history and his own high-level government experience in a narrative account of Churchill's astounding career that is unmatched in its shrewd insights, its unforgettable anecdotes, the clarity of its overarching themes, and the author's nuanced appreciation of his extraordinary subject.
Exceptional in its breadth of knowledge and distinguished in its stylish wit and penetrating intelligence, Churchill is one of the finest political biographies of our time.

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Preface
Glossary of Parliamentary Terms
PART ONE A Brash Young Man 1874-1908
   
    1. A Doubtful Provenance
    2. Subaltern of Empire and Journalist of Opportunity
    3. Oldham and South Africa
    4. Tory into Liberal
    5. Convert into Minister
    6. An Upwardly Mobile Under-Secretary
PART TWO The Glow-worm Glows: The Morning was Golden 1908-1914
   
    7. Two Hustings and an Altar
    8. The Sorcerer's Apprentice at the Board of Trade
    9. A Young Home Secretary
    10. From Prisons to Warships
    11. ‘The Ruler of the King's Navee’
    12. Churchill in Asquithland
PART THREE The Noontide was Bronze 1914-1918
   
    13. A Flailing First Lord
    14. Last Months at the Admiralty
    15. Finished at Forty?
    16. An Improbable Colonel and a Misjudged Re-entry
    17. Lloyd George's Ambulance Wagon Arrives a Little Late
    18. Making the Most of Munitions
PART FOUR Hesitant Afternoon Sunshine 1919-1939
    
    19. Anti-Bolshevik Crusader and Irish Peacemaker
    20. A Politician without a Party or a Seat
    21. Gold and Strikes
    22. A Relentless Writer
    23. Cuckoo out of the Nest
    24. Unwisdom in the Wilderness
    25. An Early Alarm Clock
    26. Arms and the Covenant
    27. From the Abdication to Munich
    28. The Last Year of the Peace
PART FIVE The Saviour of his Country and the Light of the World? 1939-1945
    
    29. Quiet War with Germany and Uneasy Peace with Chamberlain
    30. Through Disaster in the Fjords to Triumph in Downing Street
    31. Twenty-One Days in May
    32. The Terrible Beauty of the Summer of 1940
    33. The Battle of Britain and the Beginning of the Blitz
    34. No Longer Alone
    35. The Anglo-American Marriage Ceremony
    36. The Hinge Year
    37. 1943: From Casablanca to Teheran
    38. The Return to France
    39. The Beginning of the End
    40. Victory in Europe and Defeat in Britain
PART SIX Was the Evening Leaden? 1945-1965
    
    41. ‘The English Patient’
    42. Two Elections and a Resurrection
    43. A Consensual Government
    44. ‘An Aeroplane ... with the Petrol Running Out’
    45. A Celebration and a Last Exit
    46. The Sun Sinks Slow, How Slowly
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Index