From Dr Larry Arnn’s Preface: “We mourn the loss of Sir Martin Gilbert, who passed away on February 3, 2015. Before becoming gravely ill in 2012, Sir Martin had worked on this biography for precisely fifty years, first as research assistant to Randolph Churchill, then from 1968 as the official…
Read more about this book >>Winston S.Churchill, Volume III: The Challenge of War, 1914-1916
When Randolph Churchill died in 1968, he had completed the first two volumes of this multi-volume biography of his father. Martin Gilbert, an Oxford historian who had been one of Randolph’s researchers, was asked to take on the completion of the biography. This volume (number three of the eight volumes…
Read more about this book >>The Churchill Documents, Volume 6: At the Admiralty, July 1914 – April 1915
The letters and documents reproduced in this volume were written between July 1914 and April 1915, the period covered in the first part of Volume III of the official biography of Sir Winston Churchill. They contain the documentary evidence of his initiatives, setbacks, and achievements as wartime First Lord of…
Read more about this book >>The Churchill Documents, Volume 7: The Escaped Scapegoat, May 1915 – December 1916
The letters and documents in this volume were written between May 1915 and December 1916, the period covered in the second part of Volume III of the Churchill biography. During this period Churchill was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and a member of the Cabinet, a battalion commander on…
Read more about this book >>Winston S. Churchill, Volume IV: World in Torment, 1916-1922
This volume spans six years of Winston Churchill’s life, from December 1916 to November 1922. For all but six months of this period he was a member of Lloyd George’s Cabinet, first at the Ministry of Munitions, then at the War Office and finally at the Colonial Office. During these…
Read more about this book >>The Churchill Documents, Volume 8: War and Aftermath, December 1916 – June 1919
The letters and documents in this volume were written between January 1917 and June 1919, the period covered in the first part of Volume IV of the Churchill biography. This volume also includes the Introduction and Acknowledgements for the succeeding two volumes (9 and 10). For Churchill, the period was…
Read more about this book >>The Churchill Documents, Volume 9: Disruption and Chaos, July 1919 – March 1921
The letters and documents in this volume were written between July 1919 and March 1921, the period covered in the second part of Volume IV of the Churchill biography. For Churchill, the period was dominated by the early problems of peace, the continued intervention in Russia against the Bolsheviks, the…
Read more about this book >>The Churchill Documents, Volume 10: Conciliation and Reconstruction, April 1921 – November 1922
The letters and documents in this volume were written between April 1921 and November 1922, the period covered in the third part of Volume IV of the Churchill biography. For Churchill, this period was dominated by the search for peace and reconciliation in Ireland, the establishment of a Jewish National…
Read more about this book >>Winston S. Churchill, Volume V: The Prophet of Truth, 1922-1939
This volume spans the seventeen years of Winston Churchill’s life, from his defeat at Dundee in the General Election of October 1922 to the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939. The volume opens with his return to Conservatism, and to the Cabinet in 1924, and presents a…
Read more about this book >>The Churchill Documents, Volume 11: The Exchequer Years, 1922-1929
The letters and documents reproduced in this volume were written between November 1922 and July 1929, the period covered in the first part of Volume V of the official biography of Sir Winston Churchill. Among the subjects covered in this volume are Churchill’s return to Conservatism in 1924, the General…
Read more about this book >>The Churchill Documents, Volume 12: The Wilderness Years, 1929-1935
The letters and documents reproduced in this volume were written between March 1929 through December 1935, the period of time covered in the second part of Volume V of the official biography of Sir Winston Churchill. Among the subjects covered in this volume are Churchill’s long conflict with the Conservative…
Read more about this book >>The Churchill Documents, Volume 13:The Coming of War, 1936-1939
The letters and documents reproduced in this volume were written between January 1936 and the coming of war in September 1939, the period covered in the third part of Volume V of the official biography of Sir Winston Churchill. It continues the story of a man out of office and…
Read more about this book >>Winston S Churchill, Volume VI: Finest Hour, 1939-1941
This volume starts with the outbreak of war in September 1939 and ends with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 7 December 1941, and the German and Italian declaration of war on the United States three days later. On the day Hitler invaded Poland, Churchill, aged sixty-four, had been…
Read more about this book >>The Churchill Documents, Volume 14: At The Admiralty, September 1939-May 1940
The letters and documents reproduced in this volume were written between the outbreak of war in September 1939 when Churchill served as First Lord of the Admiralty, and Churchill’s becoming Prime Minister in May 1940, the period of eight and a half months covered in the first part of Volume…
Read more about this book >>The Churchill Documents, Volume 15: Never Surrender, May 1940 – December 1940
The letters and documents reproduced in this volume were written during the first eight months of Churchill’s premiership, during which time he surmounted more crises than many leaders face in an entire career: a fast-disintegrating ground war in Europe as the German blitzkreig overran the Netherlands, Belgium and France, and…
Read more about this book >>The Churchill Documents, Volume 16: The Ever-Widening War, 1941
The Ever-Widening War deals with the dramatic events of 1941, during which the Second World War engulfed the world. When the year began, Britain stood alone against German dominance in Europe, facing massive air raids, the threat of invasion, and starvation unless the Battle of the Atlantic could be won.…
Read more about this book >>Winston S Churchill, Volume VII: Road to Victory, 1941-1945
Road to Victory takes up the story of “Churchill’s War” at the moment where Finest Hour ended, The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, and carries it on to the bitter-sweet triumph of V.E. Day, 8 May 1945, the end of the war in Europe. Within a…
Read more about this book >>The Churchill Documents, Volume 17: Testing Times, 1942
The most recent addition to the multi-volume Churchill biography, made up of ‘the raw material of history’ the letters, notes, memos and records that make up the paper-trail of Churchill’s war effort during 1942. It is these documents that were the basis for the writing of Volume VII, Road to…
Read more about this book >>Winston S Churchill, Volume VIII: Never Despair 1945-1965
The final volume of the multi-volume official biography spans Churchill’s life from the defeat of Germany in 1945 to his death nearly twenty years later. It covers Churchill’s meetings with Truman and Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, his “Caretaker” Government in the summer of 1945, his six years as Leader…
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