In this, the sixth volume of the authorized biography, the monumental work reaches its apogee. That story has never been told with anything approaching the thoroughness and detail of Martin Gilbert’s Finest Hour, 1939-1941. But his friends continued to encourage him, one writing, “In spite of what I hear you say, you have yet a great life before you.”Ĭhurchill’s then thirty-five-year career, which had seen triumphs and a debacle that had almost ruined him, was, as his friend presciently wrote, merely the prelude to the most inspiring chapter in the history of political leadership. Cut off from power, his warnings about the Nazi danger ignored, his judgment doubted, and his motives impugned, Churchill had reason to be pessimistic about his political future, his career appeared to be largely behind him, and he assumed he was entering the last decade of his life. On November 30, 1934, Winston Churchill celebrated his sixtieth birthday.
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