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Churchill: A Biography | 
 enlarge | Author: Roy Jenkins
Creator: John Sessions
Publisher: Macmillan Audio Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 9496
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
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Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 1405006579
Dewey Decimal Number: 324
EAN: 9781405006576
ASIN: 1405006579
Publication Date: March 7, 2003
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Book buyers will never tire of reading about Winston Churchill, for "the greatest adventurer of modern political history" (RA Butler's verdict) led a life of action-packed drama and global significance. Roy Jenkins' Churchill is the latest biography of this great Briton, following closely in the tailwind of Geoffrey Best's Churchill: A Study in Greatness. Where Best restores altitude to Churchill's dipping reputation, seeing off academic critics of the last decade or so, Jenkins provides a jumbo-size old-fashioned biography, lauding his subject's achievements, sympathising with his quirks, and stepping lightly over his well-known mistakes. As he did in his earlier biographies of Dilke, Asquith and Gladstone, Jenkins sticks closely to the published record, utilising in particular the definitive researches of Martin Gilbert, but he brings the authority and the inside knowledge of British politics to his book, slipping in his own memories of Churchill, and his own comparable experience sat the Cabinet table. It is all here, from the Boer Wars to the nuclear bomb, from the hustings in Oldham to the diplomacy of Yalta, with due coverage of the big moments--at the Board of Trade and at the Admiralty in Asquith's peacetime and wartime cabinets, taking on the appeasers in the 1930s and Hitler in the 1940s. All the books are here, and all the political relationships tetchy and touchy alike, from Lloyd George to Baldwin, Smuts to Stalin, and of course, the British people. Like its subject the book is bulky and at times indulgent, but impossible not to enjoy.--Miles Taylor
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 MUST TRY HARDER to ARRANGE AND SIMPLIFY THE STORY November 30, 2008
King Brosby (England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a 900 page book, and a little bit of a struggle eg because Roy Jenkins resorts too often to complex phrases and foreign language references. There are too many occasions where the author uses tortuous sentence structure. There were/are no maps. There were many occasions where references to exact dates would have been appreciated.
At times I was learning vital things, eg Churchills role in promoting naval rearmament pre WW1, or Churchills fears about the too low quality of British troops in WW2, ... but I had to wade through a lot of text to find these nuggets. Too much detail is given about obscure bye-election and other parliamentary events. I think the authors opinions could have been expressed more briefly.
 Excellent introduction to the great man November 16, 2008
PhilosopherKing (London)
I never agreed very much with Roy Jenkins's political views and I was therefore wary of purchasing a book written by him on a man whom I greatly admire as I feared left wing revisionism. I was pleasantly surprised that Jenkins managed to put aside his political diffences to produce a fine biography of the national icon.
Much of the information in the book, I had already picked up by means of television programmes, articles in book reviews, history books and the like but the review of Churchill's writings encouraged me to read some of Churchill's own works. I therefore purchased "My Early Life" as well as Churchill's six volume "History of the Second World War" and read these afterwards as well.
The sheer courage, immense ability and vast energy of the man were outstanding.
I was born in 1960 and hence didn't experience the war but I must confess that if I ever hear one of Churchill's wartime speeches being broadcast while watching a film or documentary I can feel the tears building up in my eyes. This never happens for any other speaker or politician and is quite extraordinary.
The historian, A J P Taylor, in his book "English History 1914-1945", published by the Oxford University Press, called Churchill "the saviour of his country" and so he was. But more than just HIS country.
Roy Jenkins previously wrote a huge biography of William Gladstone and until he began work on Churchill's biography, Jenkins thought that Gladstone had been our greatest ever PM. After working on the Churchill biography, however, he came to the conclusion that Churchill was our greatest PM. Frankly, I tend to think that Gladstone was overrated but I concur with Jenkins's view about Sir Winston Churchill. He was a soldier, adventurer, journalist, literary giant, statesmen of the greatest magnitude and gifted artist. I doubt that we will ever produce another leader like him.
Sir Winston Churchill's funeral in 1965 is said to have brought the greatest numbers of monarchs, presidents and PMs together in one place until the funeral of the late Pope John Paul II (another towering giant) according to an article on the BBC website.
I have never read Jenkin's biography of Gladstone although I have read his biography of President Roosevelte which was a far slimmer volume.
Highly recommended biography about the man who was voted the Greatest Briton of all time in 2002.
Sir Winston November 13, 2008
A reader (greenwich)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sir Winston. One of the great heros of our country. This book should be read by all school children, why are they reading shakespear when we have the ultimate hero.
A master of politics and war. Sir Winston will always be my hero. This book will give you a super account of the mans life.
 The dullest book about a national hero I've ever read November 3, 2008
Mr. A. M. Bayliss (England)
This book was like wading through treacle! So much time was taken up with unimportant things that i lost interest fairly smartish. If you want to read a book about Churchill, go for 'In the footsteps of Churchill' by Prof Richard Holmes. It's so much easier to read and concentrates on the things that really matter about the great man and not obscure speeches he made in 1910 which seem to fascinate Jenkins so much
A very interesting book February 19, 2008
Jan Jensen
A biography written by a political insighter. Very readable. Minor mistake on the election period in the Weimar republic. Can be recommended if you want to read more on Churchill otherwise the best short biography is Bests: "Churchill: A study in greatness".
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