Winston Churchill
The Prime Ministers Series

This may not be the best biography of Winston Churchill I have ever read (William Manchester’s three volume series takes the prize), but it’s probably the most delightful. Taylor is clearly an admirer of Churchill, and he writes with a relentlessly buoyant enthusiasm for his subject. He has a keen s......more

Excellent book. Touches on many aspects of Churchill's life & endeavors!......more

Subtitled "An Informal Study of Greatness", which is exactly what the book delivers. Rather than an exhaustive look at each and every event of importance, Taylor gives us a glimpse of Churchill the man in a series of anecdotes and vignettes. For example, WWII occupies approximately the same space as......more

Winston Churchill: An Informal Study of Greatness, by Robert Lewis Taylor, tells the history of the former British Prime Minister from his childhood to just before his death. It becomes clearly obvious that Taylor is a fan of the war-time leader. So am I, but I am also a realist and there are a few......more

Wildly interesting, sometimes funny, heartwarming account of Churchill's life I very much enjoyed this book. The great statesman was no longer PM by the time I was born, and was long dead by the time I studied WWII in high school. My image of him was always the bald, elderly cigar smoking Brit. I was......more