Ebook: Winston Churchill at the Telegraph

When Winston Churchill was asked by George VI to take the reins of power in May 1940 he later recalled that 'I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial.'Our relationship with the Greatest Briton is similarly framed by this same sense of an inevitable fate. It is difficult, from our perspective, to disentangle the man from the legend that has accumulated around him.The Telegraph had a uniquely close connection with Churchill following every stage of his career, from his early days as a war correspondent for the paper, through his time in the political wilderness, the turbulent war years and his astoundingly energetic life as an elder statesman. Collected here, for the first time, is the best reportage on this most fascinating of men. Unencumbered by his mythic status, there is praise and blame in equal measure: finding space for both dramatic accounts of his wartime premiership and affectionate...