{"product_id":"9780141981253","title":"Churchill","description":"\u003cb\u003eTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, ECONOMIST, DAILY TELEGRAPH, EVENING STANDARD, OBSERVER\u003c\/i\u003e BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Undoubtedly the best single-volume life of Churchill ever written' Dominic Sandbrook, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA magnificently fresh and unexpected biography of Churchill, by one of Britain's most acclaimed historians\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century  British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many  thought him to be the greatest man in the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere have been  over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts now  draws on over forty new sources, including the private diaries of King  George VI, used in no previous Churchill biography to depict him more  intimately and persuasively than any of its predecessors. The book in no  way conceals Churchill's  faults and it allows the reader to appreciate  his virtues and character in full: his titanic capacity for work (and  drink), his ability see the big picture, his willingness to take risks  and insistence on being where the action was, his good humour even in  the most desperate circumstances, the breadth and strength of his  friendships and his extraordinary propensity to burst into tears at  unexpected moments. Above all, it shows us the wellsprings of his  personality - his lifelong desire to please his father (even long after  his father's death) but aristocratic disdain for the opinions of almost  everyone else, his love of the British Empire, his sense of history and  its connection to the present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the Second World War,  Churchill summoned a particular scientist to see him several times for technical advice. 'It was the same whenever we met', wrote the young  man, 'I had a feeling of being recharged by a source of living power.'  Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's emissary, wrote 'Wherever he was,  there was a battlefront.' Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, Churchill's  essential partner in strategy and most severe critic in private, wrote  in his diary, 'I thank God I was given such an opportunity of working alongside such a man, and of having my eyes opened to the fact that occasionally such supermen exist on this earth.'","brand":"Andrew Roberts","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":48035518972116,"sku":"9780141981253","price":41.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_24425f2d-2f0c-4ad3-b0e9-6db76eb411a9.jpg?v=1780355357","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9780141981253","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}