Churchill’s original book deal for the war memoirs was worth £555,000; the American book and serial rights were sold for $14 million! Churchill could now live in the manner to which he...

Churchill’s life-long commitment to and mastery of the written and spoken word was recognised when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 He was in Bermuda when the...

Churchill also produced a final volume of The World Crisis, dealing with the Eastern Front, in 1931 and, in 1932, signed a contract with a healthy advance of £20,000 (not inconsiderable,...

On Churchill’s eightieth birthday on 30 November 1954, Parliament assembled in Westminster Hall to honour him In his speech that day, Churchill acknowledged the role that writing and speech-making had played...

It’s worth knowing, though, that many quotes that people think are Churchill’s aren’t in fact his; many are incorrectly attributed to him probably because they ‘sound too good to be by...

You can search our ‘shop’ to look for books by Churchill, but here’s a checklist of all his key books The books published in the final couple of years of Churchill’s life,...

Eventually a ‘Summit’ took place – the only one in Churchill’s time in office – at Bermuda in 1953 Churchill had suffered a severe stroke in June and the meeting, with...

At Banstead Manor, one of his childhood homes, Churchill played ‘soldiers’ with his brother, building a ‘Den’ (a log fort) surrounded by a moat and with a drawbridge, defended with a...

Shortly after leaving office he began his biography of his illustrious ancestor, the first Duke of Marlborough which was published in four volumes between 1933 and 1938 (it was originally published...