![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is indeed surprising the amount of relevant information that Roberts manages to extract from Maisky’s account. Roberts makes good use of these highly instructive notes and quotes them throughout the narrative.Īnother source not previously used by biographers of Churchill is the recently published diaries of the Soviet ambassador to the Court of St. to have unfettered access to the whole of her father King George VI’s wartime diaries.” These of course include King George VI’s notes about his weekly lunches with Churchill during World War II. Churchill: Walking with Destiny is a page-turner, and it is full of new material that has not been previously available to Churchill scholars.Īs Roberts acknowledges at the outset, he was the first historian to have “the gracious permission of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. If one does so-and this reviewer frankly began it with a skeptical eye-one can hardly be disappointed. But they ought not to prevent the reader from critically looking at this book. These questions are certainly pertinent and ought to be asked. The obvious questions to be asked by the prospective reader of Andrew Roberts’ 1,105-page biography of Winston Churchill: Why another one? Could there be anything that has not yet been said or written about Churchill? If so, could there be enough to fill such an imposing volume? ![]()
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