Roberts re-examines this episode, as all Churchill biographers have, and largely exculpates him. The purported poor judgment of Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty.Ĭhurchill was scapegoated by his own government for the 1915 disaster at Gallipoli during World War I. Here are five time-honored Churchillian bio-tropes, reframed and refreshed by Roberts’ keen attention to historical context. In this sense, Roberts’ new biography (Viking, 982 pp., ★★★★ out of four) stands tall, re-illuminating the well-etched contours of Churchill’s monumental life with scrupulous scholarship and a flair for unearthing the telling detail looking twice where most biographers have been content to glance once. Who in their right mind would presume to say, short of Winston Churchill himself, who maintained, “history will be kind to me, for I intend to write it”?Īll Churchill biographies stand in the shadow of their subject and on the shoulders of Churchill’s official biographer, the late Sir Martin Gilbert, whose primary research constitutes the bulk of what we truly know. Is "Churchill: Walking With Destiny" by Andrew Roberts the best Churchill biography of them all?
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