Roberts was able to access sources only recently available, not least of which are Hillsdale College’s The Churchill Documents-invaluable papers now in print through World War II. Andrew Roberts weighs in at year fifty-eight. In 1960 General Lord Ismay, the devoted “Pug,” WSC’s wartime chief of staff, said that an objective Churchill biography could not be written for fifty years. (Yes, and the not so middle-aged, too.) Most of all, Winston Churchill would love this noble book, which peers into every aspect of a career six decades long, and not, as he also said, “entirely without incident.” The vision “of middle-aged gentlemen who are my political opponents being in a state of uproar and fury is really quite exhilarating to me,” he said in 1952. He would revel in the assaults of his detractors, the ripostes of his defenders. He lies at Bladon in English earth, “which in his finest hour he held inviolate.” He would enjoy the controversy he still stirs today, on media he never dreamed of. Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny.
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