Martin gilbert churchill biography series

Part of the Prentice-Hall Great Lives Observed series which combines the intimacy of autobiography, through Churchill’s own words, the immediacy of eye witness observation, through the words of his contemporaries, and the objectivity of modern scholarship of analyses in retrospect, by leading historians, political scientists, and politicians to create a three-fold perspective on Churchill’s life and times.

From a speech broadcast on April 9, 1963 by President John F. Kennedy on granting Winston Churchill Honorary Citizenship of the United States: “Whenever and wherever tyranny threatened, he has always championed liberty. Facing firmly toward the future, he has never forgotten the past. Serving six monarchs of his native Great Britain, he has served all men's freedom and dignity... “In the dark days and darker nights when England stood alone – and most men save Englishmen despaire