Churchill: A Life.

GILBERT, Martin.

Item Number: 142433

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1991.

First edition of this “masterpiece of scholarship” (The Guardian). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Martin Gilbert on the title page. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Karsh. Jacket design Raquel Jaramillo.

Martin Gilbert's highly-acclaimed "Churchill: A Life" is a story of adventure, which follows Winston Churchill from his earliest days to his moments of triumph. Here, the drama and excitement of his story are ever-present, as are his tremendous qualities in peace and war, not least as an orator and as a man of vision. Gilbert gives us a vivid portrait, using Churchill's most personal letters and the recollections of his contemporaries, both friends and enemies, to go behind the scenes of some of the stormiest and most fascinating political events of our time, dominated by two world wars and culminating in the era of the Iron Curtain.