In Search of Churchill : A Historian's Journey.

Gilbert, Martin.

ISBN 10: 0002153564 / ISBN 13: 9780002153560

Edité par Toronto: HarperCollins Canada, 1994

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An excellent copy.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: In Search of Churchill : A Historian's Journey.
• Éditeur: Toronto: HarperCollins Canada
• Date de parution: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0002153564
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780002153560
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Winston Churchill

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Synopsis

Martin Gilbert's life of Winston Churchill runs to eight main volumes with more than 15 supplementary volumes. He began working on the biography 25 years ago, when he was summoned by Randolph Churchill to his home in East Bergholt. He expected this to be a day's visit, but he was taken on as Randolph's assistant, and after his death appointed as his successor. In search of the "true" Churchill, Martin Gilbert has travelled all over the world in Churchill's footsteps: the Western Front, Gallipoli, Palestine, India and the sites of the World War II Allied summits. In the course of writing the book, he met all the surviving political leaders of Churchill's era and has many stories to tell about them. This personal account of Martin Gilbert's quest to capture the most famous Prime Minister of Great Britain is also in part a history of our times. The author combines these two in a narrative balanced in argument and anecdote.

À propos de l?auteur

Martin Gilbert was born in London in 1936 and educated at Highgate School and Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1962, he became research assistant to Randolph Churchill and, after Randolph’s death, succeeded him as biographer of Sir Winston Churchill. He is the author of many works of history and lives in London and Jerusalem.