In Search of Churchill by Martin Gilbert

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In Search of Churchill is the critically acclaimed tale of the author’s thirty-year quest for one of the legendary leaders and dominant personalities of the twentieth century.

This brilliant account is at once a striking portrayal of Winston Churchill as seen through the eyes of those closest to him and a rare, inside look at “the Agatha Christie side of the historian’s art”.

In Search of Churchill reveals the staggering extent of Gilbert’s research, an epic undertaking that he began in 1962 as Randolph Churchill’s assistant. From that auspicious beginning to the exultant moment when, some twenty-five years later, the author “reached the final file in the bottom drawer of the last filing cabinet,” we witness the extraordinary process of countless interviews, of digging ever more deeply to dispel the myths and stereotypes, of alternately charming and cajoling those sources reluctant to confide.