Title: A complex political biography
Product review: This is a book written by a British politician about a British politician and it assumes a good working knowledge of Parliament, British history 1880 onwards and the British Empire. As another reviewer has pointed out, it shouldn't be a first book about Churchill, but Roy Jenkins is an excellent, enthused writer and this comes through in the way he glorifies Winnie. Unfortunately, there is one criticism, which is the way the book simply peters out. At the start, RJ was dedicating pages and pages to certain events, some of which was guess-work, whereas in Churchill's later life there is precious little. In this sense the book cannot be called a comprehensive Churchill biog. But it is well-worth reading if you already know something about the subject and want to crawl deeper beneath the surface.
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