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Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer

Birkenhead, Countess of. Churchill, 1924-1940. London: Harrap, 1979.

Birkenhead, Frederick William Robin Smith, Earl of. Churchill, 1874-1922. London: Harrap, 1989. Posthumously published unfinished biography by Churchill's godson, edited by Sir John Colville, Churchill's private secretary; valuable for its author's personal closeness to his subject.

Charmley, John. Churchill: the End of Glory: a Political Biography. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993. Controversial recent assessment of Churchill as politician.

Churchill, Randolph S., and Gilbert, Martin. Winston S. Churchill. London: Heinemann, 1966-1988. Massive authorized biography covering Churchill's whole life and career and supported by further companion volumes. Volumes 6 to 8 by Gilbert.

Churchill, Winston S. My Early Life: a Roving Commission. London: Thornton Butterworth; Mandarin, 1930. Lively personal account of his youth and experiences in Boer War and India.

Colville, John. Winston Churchill and his Inner Circle. Wyndham, 1981. Informal memoirs of Churchill's private secretary.

Gilbert, Martin. Churchill: a Life. London: Heinemann, 1991. Large-scale distillation of the massive authorized biography started by Churchill's son and completed by Gilbert.

Gilbert, Martin. Churchill: a Photographic Portrait. London: Heinemann, 1988. Reissue, with expanded texts, of collection first published 1974.

Hough, Richard. Former Naval Person: Churchill and the Wars at Sea. London: Weidenfield and Nicholson, 1985. Good study by naval historian and biographer.

James, Robert Rhodes. Churchill: a Study in Failure 1900-1939. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970. Good assessment of Churchill's pre-Second World War career by Conservative politician and political biographer.

Manchester, William. The Caged Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1932-1940. London: Joseph, 1988. Massive biography representing an American writer's perspective.