How important was his relationship to his wife, Clementine?Įxtremely. Overall, his faults were feathers in the balance besides the iron of his strengths.
His weaknesses were many: he was no good at economics he trusted people even after they had let him down he used his charisma and forceful character to impose bad policies on occasion, and he thought in terms of national and racial stereotypes that often proved false, as when he thought the Turks in the First World War and Japanese in the Second World War would not make good soldiers. His greatest strengths were his moral and physical courage. Oscar winner Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour (PA Photo/Universal Pictures/Focus Features LLC/Jack English) What would you class as Churchill’s biggest strengths and weaknesses? Nor was he a depressive, let alone a manic one.īut he was driven by a furious hatred of Hitler that was evident in one way or another virtually every day of the war. Nor was this alcohol speaking he in fact drank far less than he himself made out. Source after source refers to him crying and singing, joking and occasionally ranting. I was constantly surprised at how emotional and passionate he was. What new information surprised you about Churchill? I was also lucky to have discovered the verbatim accounts of the War Cabinet during Churchill’s premiership. The Queen has allowed me to be the first Churchill biographer to use her father King George VI’s diaries, which are very revealing about Churchill’s private thoughts during the darkest days of the Second World War. Since the last fully comprehensive biography of him, there have been no fewer than 41 sets of papers that have been deposited at Churchill College, Cambridge, of people who worked with Churchill, as well as those of his daughter, Mary Soames. It seeks to balance his strategic, political and personal life, and to explain what an intensely passionate man he was. This is the 1,010th biography of Churchill but different from the others because it uses many new sources that were not available to previous biographers. What sets your book apart from countless other Churchill biographies? HE steered a nation through war and remains one of our most influential historical figures.īut what was Winston Churchill really like? Historian Andrew Roberts tells Laura Smith the Honest Truth about the man behind the legend and reveals his links to Scotland. Copy link A decentered black square over a white square. WhatsApp Messenger An icon of the Whatsapp messenger app logo. Facebook Messenger An icon of the Twitter app logo. Facebook Messenger An icon of the facebook messenger app logo. Loading Spinner An icon of a loading spinner. Success Tick Timeout An icon of a greyed out success tick.
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