No publishing season is complete without the obligatory complement of books on Winston Churchill. The famed statesman is as popular as ever with biographers and historians. There is a vast ...

During World War II, Winston Churchill unleashed Britain’s “shadow raiders” against Nazi-occupied Europe. These commandos, SOE agents, and irregular warriors operated behind enemy lines conducting ...

It seems as though there are still new books published every month about Winston Churchill even though he died nearly 60 years ago. Some of the volumes are good, some are bad and some are intriguing ...

MARLBOROUGH : His LIFE & TIMES-Winston S. Churchill—Scribner (2 vol.: $6). When English statesmen retire they often retire into their studies to taper off an active career by writing their memoirs or ...

London — Winston Churchill and words go together like Churchill and World War II. Each did wonders for the other. Language was Churchill’s arrow, and his oratory and pen generated millions of words in ...

He used to read books to land the movie rights. These days, convicted and disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein tore through a 546-page book on Winston Churchill in just one day while cooling his ...

No prominent figure got under Winston Churchill’s skin like Mohandas Gandhi, writes the Cambridge University historian David Reynolds in “Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him ...

“Winston Churchill appeared to me,” Charles De Gaulle wrote in 1959, “from one end of the drama to the other, as the great champion of a great enterprise and the great artist of a great history.” ...

At some point in the late 1990s a friend sent me a copy of William Manchester’s The Last Lion. A biography of Winston Churchill, it read like a fiction novel so remarkable was the man. Detail after ...