Churchill: Walking with Destiny — Andrew Roberts

Roberts draws on previously unavailable sources — including diaries of members of the Royal Family — to produce what is currently the most comprehensive single-volume life of Churchill. The biography is sympathetic but not hagiographic: Roberts documents the failures as well as the achievements, including the disasters of Gallipoli and the Bengal famine. What emerges is a portrait of a man who was wrong about many things and right about the most important one.