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Encyclopedia—Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British statesman, soldier, and authorBibliographyChurchill's biographical and autobiographical works include Lord Randolph Churchill (1906), My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), and the study of his ancestor Marlborough (4 vol., 1933–38). World Crisis (4 vol., 1923–29) is his account of World War I. The Second World War (6 vol., 1948–53) was followed by A History of the English-speaking Peoples (4 vol., 1956–58). See also his speeches ed. by R. R. James (8 vol., 1974) and D. Cannadine (1989); the multivolume study by R. Churchill, his son, and M. Gilbert (1966–78); biographies by W. Manchester (2 vol., 1983–88), M. Gilbert (1992), N. Rose (1995), R. Jenkins (2001), and J. Keegan (2002); A. J. P. Taylor et al., Churchill Revised: A Critical Assessment (1968); R. R. James, Churchill: A Study in Failure, 1900–1939 (1970); J. Charmley, Churchill's Grand Alliance (1995); A. Roberts, Eminent Churchillians (1995); J. Lukacs, Churchill: Visionary, Statesman, Historian (2002); J. Meacham, Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship (2003); D. Reynolds, In Command of History (2005). Sections in this article: The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2007, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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