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BOOKS BY MARTIN GILBERT

The Appeasers (with Richard Gott)

The European Powers, 1900 1945

The Roots of Appeasement

Childrens Illustrated Bible Atlas

Atlas of British Charities

The Holocaust: Maps and Photographs

The Jews of Arab Lands: Their History in Maps

The Jews of Russia: Their History in Maps

Sir Horace Rumbold: Portrait of a Diplomat

Jerusalem: Rebirth of a City

Jerusalem in the Twentieth Century

Exile and Return: The Struggle for Jewish Statehood

Israel: A History

The Story of Israel

Auschwitz and the Allies

The Jews of Hope: The Plight of Soviet Jewry Today

Shcharansky: Hero of Our Time

The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy

Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction

The Boys: Triumph over Adversity

The First World War

Somme: The Heroism and Horror of War

The Second World War

D-Day

The Day the War Ended

Empires in Conflict: A History of the Twentieth Century, 1900 1933

Descent into Barbarism: A History of the Twentieth Century, 1934 1951

Challenge to Civilization: A History of the Twentieth Century, 1952 1999

Never Again: A History of the Holocaust

The Jews in the Twentieth Century: An Illustrated History

Letters to Auntie Fori: The 5,000-Year History of the Jewish People and Their Faith

The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust

In Ishmaels House: the 1,400-Year History of Jews under Muslim Rule

In Search of Churchill

Churchill and America

Churchill and the Jews

The Will of the People: Churchill and Parliamentary Democracy

THE CHURCHILL BIOGRAPHY

Volume III: The Challenge of War, 1914 1916 Document Volume III (in two parts)

Volume IV: World in Torment, 1917 1922 Document Volume IV (in three parts)

Volume V: The Coming of War, 1922 1939

Document Volume V: The Exchequer Years, 1922 1929

Document Volume V: The Wilderness Years, 1929 1935

Document Volume V: The Coming of War, 1936 1939

Volume VI: Finest Hour, 1939 1941

Churchill War Papers I: At the Admiralty, September 1939 May 1940

Churchill War Papers II: Never Surrender, May December 1940

Churchill War Papers III: The Ever-Widening War, 1941

Volume VII: Road to Victory, 1941 1945

Volume VIII: Never Despair, 1945 1965

Churchill: A Photographic Portrait

Churchill: A Life

ATLASES

Atlas of American History

Atlas of the Arab Israeli Conflict

Atlas of British History

Atlas of the First World War

Atlas of the Holocaust

Historical Atlas of Jerusalem

Atlas of Jewish History

Atlas of Russian History

Atlas of the Second World War

EDITIONS OF DOCUMENTS

Britain and Germany between the Wars

Plough My Own Furrow: The Life of Lord Allen of Hurtwood

Servant of India: Diaries of the Viceroys Private Secretary, 1905 1910

Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Ghetto Diary of Avraham Tory

Winston Churchill and Emery Reves: Correspondence 1937 1964

PREFACE

President John F. Kennedy, in making Winston Churchill an Honorary Citizen of the United States in April 1963, said of him: He mobilised the English language and sent it into battle.

Churchill died in 1965, a few weeks after his ninetieth birthday. Throughout his six decades in the public eye and in public life, he understood and wielded the power of words. In his speeches, books, and newspaper and magazine articles, he expressed his feelings and laid out his vision for the future. From his first experiences of war between 1895 and 1900, his vivid narrative style and thoughtful reflections were read with fascination in Britain and beyond. While still in his twenties, he was a much sought-after speaker in Britain and the United States.

I have chosen 200 extracts from his books, articles and speeches that seem to me to express the essence of his thoughts, and to describe in his own words the main adventures of his life, the main crises of his career, his main parliamentary interventions and initiatives, and his philosophy of life and human existence. These extracts range from his memories of his childhood and schooldays to his contributions, during more than fifty years, to debates on social policy and on war. They cover his contributions to the discourse and events of two world wars, and his hopes and efforts to see the world emerge a better place.

Churchill used words for different purposes: to argue for moral and political causes, to advocate courses of action in the social, national and international spheres, and to tell the story of his own life and that of Britain and its place in the world. He was the author of fifty-eight books: seven books of memoirs, sixteen volumes of history (which contained within them his personal memories of both world wars), twenty-two volumes of his own speeches, four selections of his newspaper and magazine articles, two volumes of essays, six biographical volumes (four about his illustrious military ancestor John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, and two about his father Lord Randolph Churchill) and one novel (from which the first reading in this collection is taken).

Churchills newspaper and magazine articles have never been published in book form in their totality. He wrote 842 articles in all, 212 of them his eye-witness reports from theatres of war in Cuba, the North-West Frontier, Sudan and South Africa. The first, sent from Cuba, was published in London on 13 December 1895, two weeks after his twenty-first birthday.

Churchill was an accomplished storyteller. He loved the ebb and flow of narrative, and in many of his books, and also in his speeches, portrayed the dramatic events that he had witnessed, and had often been a part of. His summary of Britains role in the Second World War, in his broadcast on 13 May 1945, six days after the German surrender, is a masterpiece of concision combined with emotion.

The extracts that I have chosen are my favourites; ones through which I came to see the range and impact of Churchills interests, concerns, and contributions to British life and to the international conflicts and hopes of the first half of the twentieth century. I began collecting this material in 1962, the year in which I first began work on the Churchill biography as a young research assistant to Churchills son Randolph, whom I succeeded as biographer on his death in 1968.

I have put the extracts in chronological order, and in their context, so that, read sequentially, they form a biographical narrative. Read in whatever order, they give a flavour of Churchills wide-ranging interests and involvement in national and world events, both as an observer and as a participant, often at the centre of government or at its head as Prime Minister. His broadcast of 16 June 1941 to the United States is published here in full, with a note of the words and phrases he changed.

Churchills published writings span every aspect of his life and career, in peace and in war. His speeches, in Parliament and in public, reflect the conflicts and controversies with which he was involved during his long years of public life. If I found the right words, he told those gathered in Westminster Hall to celebrate his eightieth birthday in 1954, you must remember that I have always earned my living by my pen and by my tongue.

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