The author Roy Jenkins, now deceased, was a distinguished British parliamentarian who occupied many senior cabinet positions, was president of the European Commission and Chancellor of Oxford University. Perhap most relevantly he was also the author of several excellent political biographies and a writer of considerable style and insight.
The books tells the entire story of Churchill's life from his lonely childhood to his long and rather melancholy decline after his overdue retirement. His life does, of course, read rather like a romance. If one didn't know the facts to be true, it would be hard to believe them. Tales of heroism during the Spanish American War, on the North West Frontier, in the Sudan, and finally during the Boer War when he was taken prisoner and escaped. Then a political career that gave him high office at a very young age and a staggering series of triumphs and tragedies. All culminating in that moment in 1940 when man and hour came together in unforgettable fashion. | ||
Plot & Themes Plotlet: War/Cloak & Dagger story? - Led as politician War/Spying Yes Which war? Subject of Biography Gender - Male Profession/status: Ethnicity - White Nationality - British Unusual characteristics: Setting How much descriptions of surroundings? - 8 () Europe Yes Writing Style Book makes you feel? - in awe |