Martin Gilbert's Churchill is not only an extremely valuable work of history, but also a fascinating narrative. The whole life of Winston Churchill passes before us from his earliest childhood: struggles and failures, moments of the highest triumph and bitter defeats, the excitement of his private life, the extraordinary abilities of an orator, politician and even a seer, which manifested themselves throughout his career, both in peace and in war years. Martin Gilbert creates a living portrait, relying on Churchill's personal correspondence from the family archive, memories of contemporaries - employees, friends and opponents. The reader is exposed to the background of the grandiose political events of the 20th century - an era marked by two world wars and ending with the Cold War and nuclear confrontation between the great powers. “My goal is to present in these pages a complete and complete picture of Churchill’s political and private life. His career is the subject of countless books and articles, in which he is sometimes judged downwards, if not harshly. I intend to give a balanced assessment based on his real thoughts, actions, achievements, beliefs and refuting many existing misunderstandings. The huge array of surviving materials from his lifetime allowed me to offer the reader an almost complete collection of facts about Churchill’s life, to reproduce almost every episode to which he was related , present his true intentions and actions, as well as his own words, arguments and thoughts." Martin Gilbert