Churchill and America [Paperback]

Named Churchill's official biographer in 1968, renowned historianSir Martin Gilberthas amassed exclusive archival and personal documentation to explore the statesman's famed affinity for and relationship with the United States.Churchill and Americatells the intensely personal story of Winston Churchill's profound connection to America, which resulted in an Anglo-American alliance that has stood at the center of international relations for more than a century. Drawing on this extensive store of Churchill's own words -- his private letters, his articles and speeches, and press conferences and interviews given to American journalists on his journeys throughout the United States -- Gilbert paints a rich portrait of the Anglo-American relationship, illuminated by its most famous proponent.Sir Martin Gilbertwas named Winston Churchill's official biographer in 1968. He was the author of seventy-five books, among them the single-volumeChurchill: A Life, his twin historiesThe First World WarandThe Second World War, the comprehensiveIsrael: A History, and his three-volumeHistory of the Twentieth Century. An Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and a Distinguished Fellow of Hillsdale College, Michigan, he was knighted in 1995 'for services to British history and international relations', and in 1999 he was awarded a Doctorate of Literature by the University of Oxford for the totality of his published work. Martin Gilbert died in 2015.  Winston Churchill was one-half American and he journeyed to the U.S. many times over a span of sixty-six years. InChurchill and America, the incomparable Martin Gilbert tells the fascinating story of the man who embodied the trans-Atlantic alliance that still endures.
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