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Nonfiction · Political biography

Churchill

A Life
Martin Gilbert
1991 · 1088 pages

Having written six volumes of Churchill's official biography, Gilbert put the whole life into one book, from the cavalry charge at Omdurman to 1965, drawing on twenty years inside the papers.

★ 5.9