Winston Churchill

How to encompass in a biography a personality and political activity as complex as Winston Churchill's? Richard Toye, a professor at the University of Exeter, had the idea of coordinating a team of specialists to do so, who have investigated various aspects of his life, among whom are prominent historians such as Jeremy Black, Richard Overy or Chris Wrigley, so that each one deals with the period of Churchill's life, or the aspect of his political activity, that they know best. We thus have a succession of chapters that, starting with his first steps in politics and his controversial management at the head of the Admiralty in the First World War, follow his trajectory until the years of the "Cold War"; then, other chapters are dedicated to specific topics such as his relationship with the Islamic world, with the British Empire, with nuclear weapons or, on a very different level, with the women who marked his life. How Winston Churchill continues to be a world-renowned figure in the forefront of current events.