Winston S. Churchill: World in Torment, 1916–1922 (Volume

Winston S. Churchill: World in Torment, 1916–1922 (Volume IV) (Churchill Biography Book 4)

â€œA milestone, a monument, a magisterial achievementâ€¦ rightly regarded as the most comprehensive life ever written of any age.â€
â€”Andrew Roberts, historian and author of The Storm of War

â€œThe most scholarly study of Churchill in war and peace ever written.â€
â€”Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times

Covering the years 1917 to 1922, Martin Gilbertâ€™s fascinating account carefully traces Churchillâ€™s wide-ranging activities and shows how, by his persuasive oratory, administrative skill, and masterful contributions to Cabinet discussions, Churchill regained, only a few years after the disaster of the Dardanelles, a leading position in British political life.

There are many dramatic and controversial episodes: the German breakthrough on the Western Front in March 1918, the anti-Bolshevik intervention in 1919, negotiating the Irish Treaty, consolidating the Jewish National Home in Palestine, and the Chanak crisis with Turkey. In all these, and many other events, Churchillâ€™s leading role is explained and illuminated in Martin Gilbertâ€™s precise, masterful style.

The Churchill who emerges from these pages is a complex, gifted, energetic, troubled man who made a forceful impact on his contemporaries; a man whose remarkable skills were admired by his colleagues, but who often angeredâ€”even maddenedâ€”them by what he said and did.

In a moving final chapter, covering a period when Churchill was without a seat in Parliament for the first time since 1900, Martin Gilbert brilliantly draws together the many strands of a time in Churchillâ€™s life when his political triumphs were overshadowed by personal sorrows, by his increasingly somber reflections on the backward march of nations and society, and by his stark forecasts of dangers to come.

About the Author

SIR MARTIN GILBERT was born in England in 1936. He was a graduate of Oxford University, from which he held a Doctorate of Letters, and was an Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. In 1962 he began work as one of Randolph Churchillâ€™s research assistants, and in 1968, after Randolph Churchillâ€™s death, he became the official biographer of Winston Churchill. He published six volumes of the Churchill biography, and edited twelve volumes of Churchill documents.

During forty-eight years of research and writing, Sir Martin published eighty books, including The First World War, The Second World War, and a three-volume History of the Twentieth Century. He also wrote, as part of his series of ten historical atlases, Atlas of the First World War, and, most recently, Atlas of the Second World War.

Sir Martinâ€™s film and television work included a documentary series on the life of Winston Churchill. His other published works include Churchill: A Photographic Portrait, In Search of Churchill, Churchill and America, and the single volume Churchill, A Life.

About the Work

In the official biography of Sir Winston Churchill, his son Randolphâ€”and later Sir Martin Gilbert, who took up the work following Randolphâ€™s deathâ€”had the full use of Sir Winstonâ€™s letters and papers, and also many hundreds of private archives. The work spans eight volumes, detailing Churchillâ€™s youth and early adventures in South Africa and India, his early career, and his more than fifty years on the world stage. No other statesman of modern timesâ€”or indeed of any ageâ€”has left such a wealth of personal letters, such a rich store of private and public documentation, such vivid memories in the minds of those who worked closest to him. Through these materials, assembled over the course of more than twenty years, one is able to know Churchill in a way never before possible.

Country	USA
Author	Martin Gilbert
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780795344558
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	RosettaBooks
Manufacturer	RosettaBooks
PublicationDate	2015-04-05
Publisher	RosettaBooks
ReleaseDate	2015-04-05
Studio	RosettaBooks

Winston S. Churchill: World in Torment, 1916–1922 (Volume IV) (Churchill Biography Book 4)

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