The Churchill Documents: Never Flinch, Never Weary, November 1951 to February 1965

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This twenty-third volume of documents in the official biography of Winston Churchill is the last step in a journey that began fifty-seven years ago, and for which the preparations were made decades earlier. One will find in this volume a letter that Churchill wrote to his son Randolph in 1960: "I think that your biography of Derby is a remarkable work, and I should be happy that you should write my official biography when the time comes. But I must ask you to defer this until after my death. I would not like to release my papers piece-meal, and I think that you should wait for the time being and then get all your material from my own Archives and from the Trust. In any case I do not want anything to be published until at least five years after my death."Here Churchill finalizes a suggestion he had made years earlier: his son Randolph was to be his official biographer. The work would begin two years later, in 1962, when Randolph hired the young historian Martin Gilbert as his research assistant. They would inherit a treasure trove of information, to which they would then proceed to add in both volume and value over the ensuing decades. The documents from which this biography has been written come from hundreds of archives, but mostly from that of Churchill himself. Not only did he live the large life that this biography describes, he began at an early day to preserve the evidence of it. Churchill made a practice, even a principle, of conducting his business in writing.

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  The Churchill Documents: Testing Times, 1942

  • 2014-01-01
  • 1736 pages
  • Paperback
  • Hillsdale College Press

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