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Main article: Winston Churchill

[edit] Primary sources

  • Coombs, David; Churchill, Minnie; Soames, Mary (2006). His life through his paintings. Courage Books, pp. 256. 
  • Churchill, Winston (1948–53). The Second World War, Six volumes. (Part I: The Gathering Storm; Part II: Their Finest Hour; Part III: The Grand Alliance; Part IV: The Hinge of Fate; Part V: Closing the Ring; Part VI: Triumph and Tragedy). 
  • Churchill, Winston. The World Crisis (six volumes, 1923–31), 1-vol edition (2005); on World War I
  • Gilbert, Martin, ed. Winston S. Churchill: Companion 15 vol (14,000 pages) of Churchill and other official and unofficial documents. Part 1: I. Youth, 1874-1900, 1966, 654 pp. (2 vol); II. Young Statesman, 1901-1914, 1967, 796 pp. (3 vol); III. The Challenge of War, 1914-1916, 1971, 1024 pp. (3 vol); IV. The Stricken World, 1916-1922, 1975, 984 pp. (2 vol); Part 2: The Prophet of Truth, 1923-1939, 1977, 1195 pp. (3 vol); II. Finest Hour, 1939-1941, 1983, 1328 pp. (2 vol entitled The Churchill War Papers); III. Road to Victory, 1941-1945, 1986, 1437 pp. (not published, 4 volumes are anticipated); IV. Never Despair, 1945-1965, 1988, 1438 pp. (not published, 3 volumes anticipated). See the editor's memoir, Martin Gilbert, In Search of Churchill: A Historian's Journey, (1994).
  • James, Robert Rhodes, ed. Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963. 8 vols. London: Chelsea, 1974, 8917 pp.
  • The Oxford Dictionary of 20th century Quotations by Oxford University Press (ISBN 0-19-860103-4)

[edit] Secondary sources

  • Soames, Mary, ed. Speaking for Themselves: The Personal Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill 1998, 702 pp.
  • Michael R. Beschloss, (2002) The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945 p. 131.
  • Geoffrey Best. Churchill: A Study in Greatness (2003)
  • Blake, Robert. Winston Churchill. Pocket Biographies (1997), 110 pages
  • Blake, Robert and Louis William Roger, eds. Churchill: A Major New Reassessment of His Life in Peace and War Oxford UP, 1992, 581 pp; 29 essays by scholars
  • John Charmley, Churchill, The End of Glory: A Political Biography (1993). revisionist; favors Chamberlain; says Churchill weakened Britain
  • John Charmley. Churchill's Grand Alliance: The Anglo-American Special Relationship 1940-57 (1996)
  • Richard Harding Davis, Real Soldiers of Fortune 1906, early biography. Project Gutenberg etext
  • Martin Gilbert Churchill: A Life (1992) (ISBN 0-8050-2396-8); one volume version of 8-volume life (8900 pp); amazing detail but as Rasor complains, "no background, no context, no comment, no analysis, no judgments, no evaluation, and no insights."
  • Sebastian Haffner, Winston Churchill 1967
  • P. Hennessy, Prime minister: the office and its holders since 1945 2001
  • Christopher Hitchens, "The Medals of His Defeats," The Atlantic April 2002.
  • James, Robert Rhodes. Churchill: A Study in Failure, 1900-1939 (1970), 400 pp.
  • Roy Jenkins. Churchill: A Biography (2001)
  • François Kersaudy, Churchill and De Gaulle 1981 ISBN 0-00-216328-4.
  • Christian Krockow, Churchill: Man of the Century by 2000 ISBN 1-902809-43-2.
  • John Lukacs. Churchill : Visionary, Statesman, Historian Yale University Press, 2002.
  • William Manchester, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Visions of Glory 1874-1932, 1983; ISBN 0-316-54503-1; The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Alone 1932-1940, 1988, ISBN 0-316-54512-0; no more published
  • Robert Massie Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War (ISBN 1-84413-528-4); ch 40-41 on Churchill at Admiralty
  • A. Montague Browne, Long sunset 1995
  • Henry Pelling, Winston Churchill (first issue) 1974, (ISBN 1-84022-218-2), 736pp; comprehensive biography
  • Rasor, Eugene L. Winston S. Churchill, 1874-1965: A Comprehensive Historiography and Annotated Bibliography. Greenwood Press. 2000. 710 pp. describes several thousand books and scholarly articles.
  • Stansky, Peter, ed. Churchill: A Profile 1973, 270 pp. essays for and against Churchill by leading scholars