Churchill a biography roy jenkins pdf995

Roy Jenkins' biography of Winston Churchill looks intimidating: clocking in at over 900 pages, and with no breaks contained within chapters, it is a serious read.

Churchill a biography roy jenkins pdf995

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Fortunately, its subject is one of the most well-known and largest characters of the 20th century. Churchill led such a long (he lived to be 90) and interesting life that one would seriously have to question if a book written about his life could be dull, despite the best efforts of the author to make it so.

Fortunately, Jenkins does not attempt to do that, and instead employs full biographical treatment of Churchill, making sure to tally all of the warts and the glory so that Churchill is alive from beginning to end (one pleasant aspect of this book is that, on every other page, Jenkins has the year noted unobtrusively up at the top so the reader always knows exactly what year(s) the storyline is in).

Having said that, the first two hundred pages or so are nothing great. In fact, at