CHURCHILL: A LIFE

`By far the most lucid, comprehensive and authoritative account of Churchill that has been offered in a single volume` Daily TelegraphDrawing on decades of unprecedented access to Winston Churchill`s family and estate, this classic bestseller remains the definitive biography of Britain`s greatest prime minister. At once intimate and vastly ambitious, it transforms our understanding of who Churchill was and what he accomplished.`A masterpiece of scholarship . . . Explores the strategic labyrinths of two world wars with an enviable clarity.` Guardian`Gilbert is, above all, a marshaller of material on a gigantic scale . . . The nakedness of the narrative proclaims its honesty, its unpretentiousness and its erudition.` The Times`One of the greatest histories of our time.` Margaret Thatcher`Genuinely riveting . . . Genius, courage, generosity, humour and imagination shine through.` Financial Times`A stupendous book. He has told the truth.` A. J. P. Taylor`The greatest adventure story of the century.` Sunday Telegraph