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By Martin Gilbert
838 pages | ISBN 978-0-916308-17-9
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The letters and documents reproduced in this volume of The Churchill Documents were written between July 1914 and April 1915, the period covered by the first part of Martin Gilbert’s volume III of the official biography of Sir Winston Churchill. They contain the documentary evidence of his initiatives, setbacks, and [...]
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By Martin Gilbert
847 pages | ISBN 978-0-916308-18-6
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The letters and documents reproduced in this volume of The Churchill Documents span the period from May 1915 to December 1916, following Churchill’s departure from the Admiralty. From then until December 1916 he was successively Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, a member of the Cabinet, and a battalion commander [...]
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By Martin Gilbert
720 pages | ISBN 978-0-916308-20-9
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Through the documents in these pages, Martin Gilbert takes the reader on a fascinating journey, covering a wide range of domestic and international problems. Churchill’s vivid personality is evident as each controversy unfolds—traced through private letters and secret Cabinet records. Martin Gilbert’s explanatory notes, never obtrusive, illuminate both the individuals [...]
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By Martin Gilbert
717 pages | ISBN 978-0-916308-22-3
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Through the documents in these pages, Martin Gilbert takes the reader on a fascinating journey, covering a wide range of domestic and international problems. Churchill’s vivid personality is evident as each controversy unfolds—traced through private letters and secret Cabinet records. Martin Gilbert’s explanatory notes, never obtrusive, illuminate both the individuals [...]
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By Martin Gilbert
1504 pages | ISBN 978-0-916308-24-7
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This volume of The Churchill Documents tells Churchill’s story from 1922 to 1929. Based on one of the richest archives of modern British history, it deals both with Churchill’s personal and political life and with the political and international scene of which he was part.
In addition to the Churchill papers, [...]
By Martin Gilbert
1404 pages | ISBN 978-0-916308-25-4
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This volume of The Churchill Documents tells Churchill’s story from 1929-1935: the first five and a half of his “Wilderness Years.” Based, like the previous volumes, on one of the richest and most complete archives of modern British history, the documents assembled here reflect both Churchill’s political and personal life [...]
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By Martin Gilbert
1684 pages | ISBN 978-0-916308-26-1
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This volume of The Churchill Documents tells Churchill’s story from 1936 to 1939. It continues the story of a man out of office and out of favour with the government, building up an incredible array of personal contacts, who enabled him to collect much secret information about the events of [...]
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800 pages | ISBN 978-0-916308-27-8
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Publication Date: August 2010
Many twenty-first-century students may be temped to ask about the utility of an immersion in documents penned by men long dead and gone. The answer remains disarmingly simple. The highest things, the most noble ideals–the well-ordered soul, the furnished and disciplined mind–are valuable for their own sakes, [...]
Publication Date: July 2010
This sixth and most important volume of Sir Martin Gilbert’s authorized biography of Winston Churchill, The Finest Hour probes beneath the surface of each of the crucial decisions in which Churchill was involved from the outbreak of war in September 1939 to the Japanese attack on [...]
By Martin Gilbert
988 pages | ISBN 978-0-916308-16-2
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This third volume of the official biography of Sir Winston Churchill contains a full account of his initiatives and achievements as wartime First Lord of the Admiralty between August 1914 and May 1915. These include his efforts to prolong the siege of Antwerp, his support for the use of air [...]
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