Winston Churchill spent much of his life in close contact with the United States; in two world wars, his was the main British voice urging the closest possible cooperation with the Americans. Here Churchill's official biographer explores every twist and turn of the statesman's relationship with the United States, revealing the golden thread of friendship and understanding running through it.
"Winston Churchill, the half-American savior of Britain, had a love affair that Sir Martin Gilbert, the official biographer, is uniquely equipped to describe and discuss: that with the United States.... Churchill's encounters with the likes of Bernard Baruch, William Randolph Hearst, Ethel Barrymore and a near-lethal car on Fifth Avenue are all here, but it is the political context that is most valuable at a time when the latent beast of anti-Americanism has bestirred itself again."—Harold Evans
