CHURCHILL: Walking With Destiny. By Andrew Roberts. Viking. 982 pages. $40. Taking on a nearly 1,000-page biography of Winston Spencer Churchill is apt to leave most readers feeling as if their lives ...

Is "Churchill: Walking With Destiny" by Andrew Roberts the best Churchill biography of them all? Who in their right mind would presume to say, short of Winston Churchill himself, who maintained, ...

Some of the best accounts of Churchill’s life were written by Churchill himself, setting his biographers some daunting competition. How do you write more eloquently than a man who wrote prose so fine ...

This magisterial three--volume biography of Winston Church-ill, begun by William Manchester nearly 30 years ago, has at last reached completion, though the path to its finale took a circuitous trip ...

What should you read this weekend? USA TODAY’s picks for book lovers include an excellent new biography of Winston Churchill and an array of Christmas-themed novels. "Churchill: Walking With Destiny" ...

Martin Gilbert, Winston Churchill’s official biographer and a leading historian of the Holocaust, died Tuesday in London after a lengthy illness. He was 78. British senior civil servant John Chilcot ...

F.E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead and a friend of Winston Churchill's, summed up the iconic British statesman this way: "Winston was often right, but when he was wrong, well, my God." Smith died a ...

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874–1965), a British statesman and artist, was born in Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England, into an aristocratic family as the son of Lord Randolph Churchill ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - In the late 1990s, Paul Reid, then a journalist with The Palm Beach Post, became close friends with acclaimed author and historian William Manchester after covering a reunion of ...

Greatness is terrifying. The ancients understood this, but nowadays, we forget. Even after Alexander the Great’s death, the mere sight of a statue of him frightened one of his generals. When a tribune ...

Winston Churchill, in his still highly readable although hagiographic 1905 biography of his father, was to describe Jerome as having founded and edited the New York Times . This owed more to family ...

In history’s constant reassessment of heroes, Thomas Jefferson is America’s hardest case. How could the author of the Declaration of Independence also be the slave master of Monticello, a theorist of ...