Churchill
Walking with Destiny
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Narrated by:
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Stephen Thorne
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Written by:
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Andrew Roberts
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Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in 20th-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world.
There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts now draws on over 40 new sources, including the private diaries of King George VI, used in no previous Churchill biography, to depict him more intimately and persuasively than any of its predecessors. Masterfully narrated by Stephen Thorne, this audiobook in no way conceals Churchill's faults, and it allows the listener to appreciate his virtues and character in full: his titanic capacity for work (and drink), his ability see the big picture, his willingness to take risks and insistence on being where the action was, his good humour even in the most desperate circumstances, the breadth and strength of his friendships and his extraordinary propensity to burst into tears at unexpected moments. Above all, it shows us the wellsprings of his personality - his lifelong desire to please his father (even long after his father's death) but aristocratic disdain for the opinions of almost everyone else, his love of the British Empire, his sense of history and its connection to the present.
During the Second World War, Churchill summoned a particular scientist to see him several times for technical advice. 'It was the same whenever we met', wrote the young man. 'I had a feeling of being recharged by a source of living power.' Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's emissary, wrote, 'Wherever he was, there was a battlefront.' Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, Churchill's essential partner in strategy and most severe critic in private, wrote in his diary, 'I thank God I was given such an opportunity of working alongside such a man, and of having my eyes opened to the fact that occasionally such supermen exist on this earth.'
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- Barry O'Brien
- 06-06-24
Very extensive but somewhat biased
This is a long and very extensive book on the great man. While it has a lot of details and presents both sides of his successes and failures, it is clear that Andrew is very pro Churchill. He tends to gloss over Churchill's mistakes and failures. The book skims over the extensive time he spent in India, and the time he spent with his Dad there. This lead to him become very anti Hindu, and lead to his white European supremacist beliefs. Sadly his love of empire and his dislike of whet he considered"tribal peoples" lead him to not to recognize the breakup of the empire. His obstinacy and intransigence to cling to empire, left the empire to break apart, with wars and famines that lead to so many deaths, but is ignored by the author. While Andrew believes that Churchill was accurate about the Indian civil war, he does not recognize that Churchill contributed to this by locking up India's independence leaders, and India which "could not govern itself" has not had a famine and has grown its economy to surpass that of great Britain since independence. Such avoidance of Churchill racism should have been given more thought and not brushed aside by belief in how Britain helped its Empire. The empire contributed so many men and resources to the war effort, yet Churchill ignored this and focused on Americas importance. The book in my opinion is very weak in this area.
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- 25-12-23
Excellent book and best narration.
The book is very good and Churchillian voice is used in narrating his dialogues which makes it a special effect.
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- Shreker
- 01-07-23
Rich and vivid in details
Absolutely loved this biography. Author has done a great job in my opinion in being neutral to Churchill, painting his positive as well as negative sides equally. The events of WW2 are rich and vivid in detail. Narration is awesome - voice modulation when quoting Churchill verbatim is a delight.
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