<b>From the “most celebrated and best-loved British historian in America” (<i>Wall Street Journal</i>), an elegant, concise, and revealing portrait of Winston Churchill</b><br /><br />In <i>Churchill</i>, eminent historian Paul Johnson offers a lively, succinct exploration of one of the most complex and fascinating personalities in history. Winston Churchill&apos;s hold on contemporary readers has never slackened, and Johnson’s analysis casts new light on his extraordinary life and times. Johnson illuminates the various phases of Churchill&apos;s career—from his adventures as a young cavalry officer in the service of the empire to his role as an elder statesman prophesying the advent of the Cold War—and shows how Churchill&apos;s immense adaptability and innate pugnacity made him a formidable leader for the better part of a century. Johnson&apos;s narration of Churchill&apos;s many triumphs and setbacks, rich with anecdote and quotation, illustrates the man&apos;s humor, resilience, courage, and eccentricity as no other biography before, and is sure to appeal to historians and general nonfiction readers alike.