Churchill's Empire — Richard Toye

Toye examines Churchill's relationship with the British Empire — not as an incidental aspect of his career but as a central conviction that shaped his politics from the Boer War to Indian independence. The book documents the racism, the support for famine relief withheld, the admiration for certain aspects of Mussolini, and places these alongside the celebrated wartime rhetoric to produce a portrait considerably more complicated than the statuary suggests.