Churchill: A Life

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Macmillan, Oct 15, 1992 - Biography & Autobiography - 1066 pages

Distilled from years of meticulous research and documentation, filled with material unavailable when the earliest books of the official biography's eight volumes went to press, Churchill is a brilliant marriage of the hard facts of the public life and the intimate details of the private man. The result is a vital portrait of one of the most remarkable men of any age as well as a revealing depiction of a man of extraordinary courage and imagination.

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Childhood
xvii
Harrow
13
Towards the Army
29
Second Lieutenant
45
In Action
69
To Omdurman and Beyond
79
South Africa Adventure Capture Escape
101
Into Parliament
127
Out of Office
485
The Moment of Truth
516
No Place for Churchill
543
From Munich to War
575
Return to the Admiralty
595
Prime Minister
617
Britain at Bay
651
The Widening War
682

Revolt and Responsibilities
161
The Social Field
187
Home Secretary
205
At the Admiralty
233
The Coming of War in 1914
257
War
271
Isolation and Escape
303
In the Trenches
325
Deep and Ceaseless Torment
355
Minister of Munitions
369
At the War Office
397
Colonial Secretary
425
Return to the Wilderness
449
At the Exchequer
461
Planning for Victory
707
Illness and Recovery
735
Normandy and Beyond
749
War and Diplomacy
775
Advance Britannia
801
An Iron Curtain
815
Mapping the Past Guiding the Future
843
Prime Minister in Peacetime
871
Recovery Last Ambition Resignation
887
Last Years
915
Maps
933
Index
955
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One of Britain's most distinguished historians, Martin Gilbert was knighted in 1995. A fellow of Merton College, Oxford, he is also the official biographer of Winston Churchill. Among his books are The Holocaust, The Second World War, Churchill: A Life, Auschwitz and the Allies, The First World War, and Never Again.

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