![]() ![]() ![]() He felt it then, but he had presentiments of that moment years before as a school boy. Roberts illustrates throughout this long and thoroughly researched book that was no literary flourish. What Roberts conveys in a way that Jenkins did not is the central place that war and combat played not just in Churchill’s career, but in his whole character, personality and imagination.Ĭhurchill wrote that when he became prime minister, “I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial”. And yet that was, perhaps, a limitation of sorts. ![]() Jenkins brought a unique perspective to Churchill’s life, since, as an MP, former Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer he had stood in the same shoes as Churchill and had had to view the world through the same spectacles. In the two decades since Jenkins published his Churchill, the Churchill industry’s productivity has continued to rise exponentially, with books produced on every aspect of Churchill’s life. Roy Jenkins produced his widely acclaimed volume less than twenty years ago. One could be forgiven for thinking the ever burgeoning Churchilliana industry hardly needs another. Foreign Policy & International RelationsĪndrew Roberts is a brave man to publish a new single volume biography of Churchill. ![]()
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