Martin Gilbert Audio & Video

In this book Churchill's official biographer, Martin Gilbert, has skilfully selected 200 extracts from his entire oeuvre of books, articles and speeches that reflect his life story, career and philosophy.

Churchill: A Life follows Winston Churchill from his earliest days to his moments of triumph.

It was to be the war to end all wars, and it began at 11:15 on the morning of June 28, 1914, in an outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire called Sarajevo.

Winston Churchill understood and wielded the power of words throughout his six decades in the public eye.

In this stirring book, Martin Gilbert tells the intensely human story of Winston Churchill's profound connection to America, a relationship that resulted in an Anglo-American alliance that has stood at the center of international relations for more than a century.

British historian Martin Gilbert is the official biographer of Winston Churchill. Sir Martin was knighted in 1995 for service to British history and international relations.

Martin Gilbert, author of the multivolume biography of Winston Churchill and other brilliant works of history....

Churchill: A Life follows Winston Churchill from his earliest days to his moments of triumph....

Gilbert has given us a complete history of World War II, weaving together all of its aspects—the political, the military, the diplomatic, and, not least, the civilian…