New churchill biography

[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s early as the 1920s, Winston Churchill had complained to his friend Frederick Lindemann that “far too much has been and is being written about me.” One can only imagine what he must have thought toward the end of his life some 40 years later.

Churchill is such an evergreen subject for biographers and historians that one has to wonder what author Andrew Roberts’s Churchill: Walking With Destiny (Viking, 2018) could possibly bring to the party.

The short answer to that question is—quite a lot.

Roberts, a popular British historian, has seemingly trawled all the available records for material related to Churchill, including gaining access to notes taken by King George VI during his weekly meetings with his prime minister.

The result is arguably the most comprehensive biography of the British war leader ever produced.

Roberts is clearly sympathetic to his subject, and it is often hard to disagree with that assessment. Churchill emerges as a thoroughly larger