Earlier this year, retired astronaut Scott Kelly posted a harmless tweet quoting Winston Churchill’s famous line, “In victory, magnanimity.” Left-wing Twitter went berserk, and Kelly felt obliged to ...
CHURCHILL: Walking With Destiny. By Andrew Roberts. Viking. 982 pages. $40. Taking on a nearly 1,000-page biography of Winston Spencer Churchill is apt to leave most readers feeling as if their lives ...
WASHINGTON — I have been reading a most perspicacious book by my friend Andrew Roberts. It is just out: “Churchill: Walking With Destiny.” It is terrific. Throughout the book, certain themes keep ...
This magisterial three--volume biography of Winston Church-ill, begun by William Manchester nearly 30 years ago, has at last reached completion, though the path to its finale took a circuitous trip ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - In the late 1990s, Paul Reid, then a journalist with The Palm Beach Post, became close friends with acclaimed author and historian William Manchester after covering a reunion of ...
What should you read this weekend? USA TODAY’s picks for book lovers include an excellent new biography of Winston Churchill and an array of Christmas-themed novels. "Churchill: Walking With Destiny" ...
In his massive new biography of Winston Churchill, Andrew Roberts recounts how Major-General Sir James Edmonds, editor of the government’s official war history, helped Churchill compose The World ...
Some of the best accounts of Churchill’s life were written by Churchill himself, setting his biographers some daunting competition. How do you write more eloquently than a man who wrote prose so fine ...
Oscar-nominated actress Janet McTeer has been tapped to star opposite Brendan Gleeson in "Churchill at War," HBO Films/BBC Films' follow-up to "The Gathering Storm," their much-heralded biopic of ...
Barnsley, Eng.: Greenhill Pen & Sword / Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2020. Pp. 112. Illus.. $19.95 paper. ISBN: 168247528X A Very Good Graphic Treatment of Churchill’s Life Originally published ...
Winston Churchill, in his still highly readable although hagiographic 1905 biography of his father, was to describe Jerome as having founded and edited the New York Times . This owed more to family ...