Churchill
Roy Jenkins, Macmillan
Roy Jenkins uses his skills as an acclaimed biographer to
analyse Churchill’s exceptional character in all its
strengths and attendant weaknesses. He describes how from
a very young age Churchill knew that he was destined to play
a great role in the life of the nation and how he prepared
himself to meet that challenge. Using his own experience
as well as his formidable knowledge of the political history
of Britain, Jenkins illuminates Churchill’s parliamentary
career with all its campaigns, elections, and changes of
allegiance, its troughs and its peaks.
Former Home Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer and President
of the European Commission, Roy Jenkins is currently Chancellor
of the University of Oxford and President of the Royal Society
of Literature.
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