Churchill: A Life

49 hrs. 10 min.

Language Russian

Author Martin Gilbert

Narrator Alexey Voskoboynikov

Description

Martin Gilbert’s book “Churchill” is both a first-rate historical study and an exciting narrative. It traces, step by step, Winston Churchill’s path from childhood to the finale of his long career: through trials and mistakes, peaks of glory and painful defeats, worries of his personal life. The author presents Churchill as an outstanding orator, politician, and a man with a rare gift for foresight that manifested both in peacetime and during the war years.

Gilbert creates a convincing and vivid portrait based on letters from the family archive, as well as testimonies of people who knew Churchill—his colleagues, friends, and opponents. Against this backdrop, the reader can see the hidden mechanisms behind the biggest political events of the 20th century: the period of two world wars, the transition into the Cold War, and the era of nuclear confrontation among leading powers.

“My aim is to give in these pages a coherent and complete picture of Churchill’s political and personal life. There are countless works about his activities, where evaluations are often arrogant or overly harsh. I want to offer a balanced view, based on his genuine thoughts and actions, his achievements and convictions, and thereby dispel many entrenched misconceptions.

The enormous amount of material that has reached us allowed me to compile an almost exhaustive factual picture of his life, reconstruct practically all the episodes in which he was involved, show his real intentions and actions, and also include his own words—his arguments and reflections.”

/Martin Gilbert