Here is a welcome addition to the Churchill story—an exciting book filled with history, legend and wonderful stories—with over 150 fascinating illustrations including photographs, drawings and cartoons.

"Live dangerously," Winston Churchill once said. "Take things as they come. Dread naught. All will be well." And as he advised so he has lived through more than eighty years of adventure.

Afghans have shot at him; Dervishes have hacked at him and Boers have captured him. But even more tremendous than the physical encounters with death were those which took him along the hazardous paths of high policy-making, speaking truths which men feared to hear and clashing with men made vicious by their own mediocrity.

This is a fresh and stimulating picture of an uncommon man and of a career that has ricocheted between triumph and calamity to the present moment when, having been at the center of almost every major crisis of the twentieth century, Winston Churchill has become the symbol and embodiment of a nation's finest hour.

From the dust jacket