IWM In Conversation With: Richard Evans and Randolph Churchill
November 6 @ 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
£20
Churchill: A Life
Join us in celebrating the release of the new abridged edition of Churchill: A Life by Sir Martin Gilbert with a special IWM In Conversation With: event with Richard Evans and Randolph Churchill, Winston Churchill’s great-grandson.
Following the talk, take the opportunity to explore Churchill War Rooms, the once-secret headquarters where the course of the Second World War was determined. From the Map Room where numerous operations were planned, to Churchill’s bedroom, where he made some of his most famous speeches.
About the book
Sir Martin Gilbert CBE was Winston Churchill’s official biographer and a leading historian of the twentieth century. An honorary fellow at Merton College, Oxford, he was knighted in 1995 ‘for service to British history and international relations’. He died in 2015.
A best-selling classic, Churchill: A Life draws on Gilbert’s decades of unprecedented access to Winston Churchill’s family and estate.
‘A masterpiece of scholarship . . . Explores the strategic labyrinths of two world wars with an enviable clarity.’ The Guardian
‘By far the most lucid, comprehensive and authoritative account of Churchill that has been offered in a single volume.’ Daily Telegraph
