Churchill: Walking with Destiny
By Andrew Roberts
Allen Lane, 1,152pp, £35/$40
If some kind soul gave you a handful of notes to spend, no strings attached, how would you dispose of it? While you’re mulling that one over, allow me to make a suggestion: go immediately to your nearest book shop, hand over the cash and ask for Andrew Roberts’s Churchill: Walking with Destiny. Not only is it the best biography I have read this year; it might well be the best I’ve read ever. In terms of Roberts’s oeuvre, this book will surely stand as his masterpiece, surpassing his life of that other great Tory Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury.
