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HELP: Can Anyone Suggest the Definitive Churchill Biography?

Kodiak

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I plan on asked for this as an Xmas gift, and would like the best written/most accurate/least biased version in print.

Thank you in advance for any help/suggestions.

- Kodiak
 
Martin Gilbert has one that is several volumes long, as I recall.


He has a one volume one that I have read. Since I did not hang with Winston I cannot vouch for its accuracy. I will spoil it for you by revealing that he dies in the end...
 
Suddenly said:
Martin Gilbert has one that is several volumes long, as I recall.


He has a one volume one that I have read. Since I did not hang with Winston I cannot vouch for its accuracy. I will spoil it for you by revealing that he dies in the end...
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Smart a$$... ;)

"Accuracy" as in peer reviews by noted historians...



:p
 
Suddenly said:
He has a one volume one that I have read. Since I did not hang with Winston I cannot vouch for its accuracy. I will spoil it for you by revealing that he dies in the end...
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This is the same one I read. It's good, I recommend it.

Chruchill: A Life
 
Churchill: A Biography, by Roy Jenkins.

I thought it was pretty balanced; 1 volume.

There was a Penguin Biography version that I have not read, but a friend recommended it a while back. Author's last name was Keegan.

Related, but not a biography: Never Give In: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches, by Winston Churchill.

It was a gift from my wife last Christmas and has been enjoyable reading off and on.
 
I still like Manchester's 2 volumes. I hear that shortly before he died, Manchester OK'ed a writer to pull his notes for volume 3 into a book.
 
I just heard that it was Churchill that put forth the apocryphal idea of people jumping from tall buildings during the Oct 29 1929 stock market crash - he was then a journalist covering the trading floor of the NYSE and told a really "moving" story.
 
Kodiak, I`d recommend Clive Ponting's "Churchill" if you get the time over the holidays.
I find there is a lot of twaddle perpetuated about Churchill and this book is about as iconoclastic as one could hope for.
Just a thought.
 
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