“I inquired a little bit more about this, because obviously I’ve been waiting all my life to meet Winston Churchill. “A lady in Miami earnestly informed me that she was the reincarnation of Winston Churchill,” Mr. Roberts on the US leg of his global book tour, which had featured discussions moderated by political heavyweights-including Karl Rove and Michael Gove-alongside the occasionally bizarre conversation. The Economist called it one of the best books of 2018. The Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and The Wall Street Journal gave verbatim assessments in their reviews. Roberts’ book “Is This the Best One-Volume Biography of Churchill Yet Written?” (the Times’ answer: yes). The New York Times titled its review of Mr. Was there really that much more to be said? Roberts had already written four books with Churchill’s name in the title and his latest work features more pages (1,110) than predecessors. One of Britain’s best-known and best-selling historians, Mr. There were 1,009 biographies of Winston Churchill before Andrew Roberts published the 1,010th in October last year: Churchill: Walking with Destiny. Churchill survived one house fire, two plane crashes, three car crashes, four bouts of pneumonia during World War II, five wars as a soldier. Email Historian and best-selling author Andrew Roberts discusses Winston Churchill’s tortuous political path and the legendary statesman's surprising physical resilience.
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