![]() ![]() I was also very fortunate that since the last major biography of Churchill, no fewer than forty-one sets of papers have been deposited at the Churchill Archives in Churchill College, Cambridge. He wrote down everything Churchill said, so we've got a fantastic cornucopia of new stuff: Churchill's hopes, fears, apercus, and jokes, every Tuesday of the Second World War. The king had lunch every Tuesday of the Second World War with Churchill, who trusted him with everything: the nuclear secrets, the Ultra decrypts, and so on. ![]() The queen allowed me to be the first Churchill biographer to use her father's diaries. Actually, what I realized four years ago when I started to write this book was that in the previous six years or so-so for the last decade from now-there has been an avalanche of new sources about Churchill, which one wasn't really expecting. ![]() But before you began work, what on earth were you thinking? What did you see that led you to believe there was an opportunity for something fresh? ![]() Yo u have pulled it off-your book is getting rave reviews. Hundreds of Winston Churchill biographies are already in existence. It's great to be back on the show, Peter. Welcome, Andrew.Īndrew Roberts: Thank you. His new book is Churchill: Walking with Destiny. Peter Robinson, Uncommon Knowledge: Historian Andrew Roberts is the author of more than a dozen major works of history, including Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945 Napoleon: A Life and The Holy Fox: The Life of Lord Halifax. ![]()
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