by Roy Jenkins · Macmillan · tapa dura · ISBN 9780333782903
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«Churchill» is the biography of Winston Churchill by Roy Jenkins, published by Macmillan in hardback (1024 pages, in English).
It traces Winston Churchill's life from his aristocratic origins to his role in the Second World War, the Nobel Prize and his final years. Jenkins analyses his political career, achievements and contradictions in depth, offering a single-volume portrait from the perspective of a fellow politician.
Originally published in 2001, the work was nominated for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction in 2002.
For those interested in twentieth-century British history, the Second World War and political leadership.
Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead was a British statesman and writer who served as President of the European Commission from 1977 to 1981. At various times a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Labour Party and the Social Democratic Party (SDP), and a peer for the Liberal Democrats, he was Chancellor of the Exchequer and Home Secretary under the Wilson and Callaghan governments.
