Churchill: The Life: An Authorized Pictorial Biography - Hardcover

Churchill: The Life, An Authorized Pictorial Biography by Max Arthur is an elegant and lavish work that uses about 225 photographs to illustrate the many varied aspects of Churchill's life. The selection of photographs include the famous Karsh and Steichen portraits of Churchill as well as the well-known images of Churchill as a Boer prisoner, at Sidney Street, aboard the Prince of Wales, with Stalin and Roosevelt, and with the royal family at Buckingham Palace on V-E Day.... Many less well known photographs are included [of] both Churchill's political and personal life... the politician with his family... pursuing his hobbies (golf, bricklaying, polo, flying, painting)... memorabilia (cigars, dispatch box, watch) and facsimiles of Churchill letters, speech notes, newspaper articles, and other documents. The most interesting of these documents is the Harrow Punishment Book. All of the images are crisp and clear.--Bradley P. Tolppanen"Blog on Winston Churchill" (02/14/2016)

This beautifully produced volume brings Churchill vividly to life... The book richly reveals both the private and public sides of the war leader and rhetorician. Churchill emerges as a fully human figure and treads the historical stage with a new energy. Highly recommended. All levels and libraries.--J. D. Lyons"Choice" (03/01/2016)

At 52nd Street and Madison Avenue in New York City sits Chartwell Books, the only bookshop in the world specializing in books, articles and memorabilia of Winston Churchill. Further south in Manhattan is the Morgan Library and Museum where in 2012 a record 70,000 visitors viewed the multimedia exhibition Churchill: The Power of Words.

This year is the 50th anniversary of Winston Churchill's death, and coincidentally the 70th anniversary of V-E Day. This stunning book commemorates the life of Britain's greatest leader and the best friend the United States ever had.

Eight sections narrate Churchill's monumental life and achievements:

• Youth 1874-1903: Unhappy son of a British duke and American mother; student; father's death
• Early Military Career 1898-1916: Soldier; war reporter; escaped prisoner; author; husband and father
• Early Political Career 1899-1922: Decorated soldier; parliamentarian; government minister
• The First World War: Political defeat and blunders; American lecture tour; government minister
• Rising through the ranks: Political legacy of the Great War; government minister; painter; farmer
• The Second World War: Prime Minister; V-E Day
• Post-War Years: Political defeat; "Iron Curtain" Speech; daughter's suicide; death of second daughter
• Legacy: Statesman; historian; Honorary Citizen of the United States; Nobel Prize Laureate, final days.

Author and chronicler Max Arthur includes:

• Previously unpublished photographs of artifacts in the Churchill Archive Centre
• Family pictures and private correspondence
• Telegrams, drafts of speeches, press cuttings and official papers
• Ephemera, like an early report card that describes him as "very bad--in constant trouble to everybody"
• Pictorial timelines
• Public correspondence and historical items given to him
• Fascinating and exhaustingly researched captions and quotes.