John Charmley Knihy

In this sequel to the controversial, widely praised The End of Glory, Charmley turns his scholarship to the Anglo-American "special relationship" that was the cornerstone of Churchill's foreign policy, ruthlessly stripping away the myth to reveal the unsentimental reality of the Churchill years and beyond, from 1940 to 1957.

Based on fifteen years' research in archives in Britain, France, and America, this new political biography reapprises the Churchill myth created by the man and his official biographer to reveal a complex figure who is far more interesting than the ideal leader he is so often presented to be.