Winston Churchill's War Leadership (10 page)
Reflecting towards the end of his life on her father’s war leadership, Churchill’s daughter Mary summed up a nation’s feelings when she wrote to him: “I owe you what every Englishman, woman & child does—Liberty itself.”
Note on Sources
The material in this lecture is taken from my book
Churchill: A Life
, as well as from the six volumes of the Churchill biography, Winston S. Churchill, covering the years 1914 to 1965, and the eleven document volumes covering the years 1914 to 1941, which I have published over the past thirty years.
MARTIN GILBERT
WINSTON CHURCHILL’S WAR LEADERSHIP
Sir Martin Gilbert is Winston Churchill’s official biographer and a leading historian of the modern world. He is the author of seventy-three books, among them
Churchill: A
Life
, comprehensive studies of both the First and Second World Wars, and his three-volume work
A History of the
Twentieth Century.
He was made an Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, in 1994, and was knighted in 1995. He lives in London with his wife, Susan, and their two boys.
ALSO BY MARTIN GILBERT
Churchill: A Life
In Search of Churchill: A Historian’s Journey
The First World War: A Complete History
The Second World War: A Complete History
A History of the Twentieth Century, Volume I: 1900-1933
A History of the Twentieth Century, Volume II: 1933-1951
A History of the Twentieth Century, Volume III: 1952-1999
Holocaust: The History of the Jews of Europe
During the Second World War
The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust
Copyright © 2003 by Martin Gilbert
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Originally published by Vintage Canada, a division of
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