January 1, 1970

Churchill: The Life by Max Arthur

A stuttering boy with modest academic achievements, few people meeting the adolescent Winston Churchill could have dreamed that in his intellectual prime this giant of a political figure would change the course of the twentieth century.

Soldier, writer, orator, campaigner, statesman and tender family man – all facets of Churchill’s life have been brought together in this absorbing illustrated book. It includes never-before-published material, with letters to ‘Mama’ from the homesick, but rebellious schoolboy as well as hand-annotated notes of some of his major speeches and fascinating memorabilia, such as the poster for the reward for his capture during the Boer War and specially shot artefacts from family archives including his cigar and his Parliamentary dispatch box.

Churchill: The Life also showcases rarely seen photographs from his family albums, providing a more intimate portrait of Churchill as a romantic suitor and devoted husband to Clementine. As well as a talented polo player, his many leisure pursuits included painting Moroccan sunsets, hunting boar with Coco Chanel and bricklaying.

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Max Arthur is Britain’s leading oral historian. His unique work on the Great War gives the public an extraordinary insight into what it was like to experience a global conflict on a personal level. His classic books, Forgotten Voices of the Great War and Last Post, have sold more than a million copies worldwide. The subsequent publication of Forgotten Voices of the Second World War spent many weeks in the bestseller lists. Max’s 2007 publication, The Faces of World War I, published by Cassell Illustrated, is the biggest-selling illustrated book on the conflict in the UK. In 2013 he was honoured with an OBE for his services to military history.