‘It’s a fascinating tour guide, rich in stories and detail, which informs as well as entertains – a kind of life through places.’
New Statesman
‘Peter Clark has lent the story [of Churchill] a freshness’
Times Literary Supplement
‘Churchill’s wide, paintatious travels … excellently chronicled by Peter Clark in his well-researched and well-written Churchill’s Britain’
Claremont Review of Books
‘Peter Clark brings a well-honed literary facility to the task of creating this highly readable book.’
Finest Hour, Journal of the International Churchill Society
REVIEWS ‘…an ingenious new way to write about Winston Churchill, through the great man’s incredibly powerful sense of place… this book will bring instruction and joy.’ ‘Congratulations to Peter Clark on finding such an innovative take on Churchill… a delightful read on so many levels.’ ‘…the Churchill enthusiast would do well to have Churchill’s Britain in hand as they visit Churchill sites across London and elsewhere in the UK and Ireland.’ ‘a highly detailed account of the places associated with Churchill and the events which took place in them, some of great moment, some intimate, and always illuminating, plus helpful maps to navigate us around.’ ‘For those who wish to travel in the footsteps of one of the 20th century’s greatest politicians and war leaders, there is no better guide than Peter Clark to the places in Britain lived in and associated with Sir Winston Churchill.’ ‘Ambitious in scope and full of intriguing insights, this is a highly original addition to the wealth of Churchill literature.’ More books have been written about Winston Churchill than any modern historical figure, but Peter Clark’s Churchill’s Britain does something quite different. It takes the reader the length and breadth of Britain and Ireland to lesser-known places associated with Churchill’s life. Some are familiar – Blenheim Palace, Chartwell, the Cabinet War Rooms – but we also see his schools, far-flung parliamentary constituencies in Dundee and Epping, the sites of famous speeches, the place he started to paint, the shop he bought his cigars, and the final resting places of his family and close friends. We read about these places in his own words alongside Clark’s insightful analysis and, by visiting sites that made important but less-celebrated contributions to the story of Churchill’s life, we come closer to a full picture. Clark takes us from the site of his father’s marriage proposal to his American future wife on the Isle of Wight to his grave in a country churchyard in Oxfordshire. Each of the eight regions of the United Kingdom is introduced with a map, and the entries cross-referenced. It can be dipped into, consulted by the traveller, or read straight through. However used, Churchill’s Britain provides fascinating and fresh insights into this extraordinary man. PETER CLARK is a writer and translator with degrees from Keele and Leicester universities. For 31 years he was in the overseas career service of the British Council. He has written books on Istanbul, on various British writers and has translated nine books from Arabic. Also by this author, Dickens’s London, and Dickens: London into Kent.
Andrew Roberts
Anthony Seldon
A Blog on Winston Churchill
Nigel Knight, author of Churchill: The Greatest Briton Unmasked
David Stafford, author Oblivion or Glory: 1921 and the Making of Winston Churchill
Leo McKinstry, author of Attlee and Churchill: Allies in War, Adversaries in Peace
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| Pages | 280 |
