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 ...

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" ...

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 ...

F.E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead and a friend of Winston Churchill's, summed up the iconic British statesman this way: "Winston was often right, but when he was wrong, well, my God." Smith died a ...

Some of the best accounts of Churchill’s life were written by Churchill himself, setting his biographers some daunting competition. How do you write more eloquently than a man who wrote prose so fine ...

In March 2007, The Spectator, the London weekly magazine, published a truly remarkable column. “Prepare yourself for a veritable carpet-bombing of name-dropping,” its author said, and he wasn’t ...

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 ...

Winston Churchill, in his still highly readable although hagiographic 1905 biography of his father, was to describe Jerome as having founded and edited the New York Times . This owed more to family ...

Greatness is terrifying. The ancients understood this, but nowadays, we forget. Even after Alexander the Great’s death, the mere sight of a statue of him frightened one of his generals. When a tribune ...

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 ...

Four days after the nation marked the 50th anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill's funeral the death was announced of a man who could claim to have taught the world more about the great war time Prime ...