CHURCHILL: Walking With Destiny. By Andrew Roberts. Viking. 982 pages. $40. Taking on a nearly 1,000-page biography of Winston Spencer Churchill is apt to leave most readers feeling as if their lives ...

Earlier this year, retired astronaut Scott Kelly posted a harmless tweet quoting Winston Churchill’s famous line, “In victory, magnanimity.” Left-wing Twitter went berserk, and Kelly felt obliged to ...

Throughout his 60 years in politics, Winston Churchill played an enormous part in the direction of the British Empire, even though his career, mirroring his manic depression, ran fantastically high ...

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874–1965), a British statesman and artist, was born in Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England, into an aristocratic family as the son of Lord Randolph Churchill ...

Winston Churchill had an affinity for wine — and a passion for Champagne. To what degree? He spent about £1,160 a year on booze purchases between 1908 and 1914, according to the new biography “No More ...

Martin Gilbert, Winston Churchill’s official biographer and a leading historian of the Holocaust, died Tuesday in London after a lengthy illness. He was 78. British senior civil servant John Chilcot ...

Unicorn Press will reprint The Happy Warrior: The Life Story of Sir Winston Churchill. "In the 1950s, the comic embarked on an ambitious series chronicling the life of some of Britain's most famous ...

In his massive new biography of Winston Churchill, Andrew Roberts recounts how Major-General Sir James Edmonds, editor of the government’s official war history, helped Churchill compose The World ...

What should you read this weekend? USA TODAY’s picks for book lovers include an excellent new biography of Winston Churchill and an array of Christmas-themed novels. "Churchill: Walking With Destiny" ...

Biographies are often eye-rolling in a variety of negative ways, but not this superb biography about Clementine Churchill, wife of Winston Churchill, prime minister of the United Kingdome from 1940 to ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - In the late 1990s, Paul Reid, then a journalist with The Palm Beach Post, became close friends with acclaimed author and historian William Manchester after covering a reunion of ...