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1. John Rossi in SOCIETY February 2020 "Andrew Roberts has produced the best single volume study of Churchill to appear—better than Roy Jenkins’ equally huge life of Churchill (900 pages) and Geoffrey Best’s briefer an lytical study, Churchill: A Study in Greatness. Roberts’ biography will command the attention of scholars and general readers alike for years. It is clearly written, massively researched and sprinkled with insights, many of them humorous, into the life and times of easily the greatest, and genuinely idiosyncratic, Englishman of his time and perhaps all time.===
2. Chronicles March 2019 p 23-25 by Ralph Berry --"Of the making of books about Churchill there is no end. The latest is the best to date. Andrew Roberts reduces Churchill’s epic life to some 1,100 pages, offering a precis of the great events in which he was involved while drawing on 40 new sources. These include the private diaries of King George VI and the unpublished memoirs of major figures. Roberts has mastered the archives, and provides an enthralling, intimate picture of Churchill.
3. Commentary Feb 2019 "The catalog of the New York Public Library lists no fewer than 1,140 books under the subject heading “Winston Churchill.” Do we need another? If it’s a biography by Andrew Roberts using many hitherto unavailable sources (such as King George VI’s diary), the answer is an emphatic yes....[Roberts is] supremely qualified to write a life of the man who helped the world by standing up to Hitler when all seemed lost. And he has justified his qualifications with his wonderful, masterly Churchill: Walking with Destiny. ...this well-rounded and by no means hagiographic biography .... Andrew Roberts’s masterful, supremely readable biography has a text 982 pages long. It could hardly have been shorter and told so extraordinary a story so well."
4. Michael Gove. in Evening Standard. 9/27/2018,-- " his brilliant, breathtaking, unputdownable new biography"
5. Keymer, David. Library Journal. 11/15/2018, --" a well-researched and exceptionally well-written biography .... This compelling book is likely to become a standard text on Churchill and will be difficult to keep on the shelves."
6. Kirkus Reviews [for librarians]. 10/1/2018, --"Roberts adds materially to the library by consulting troves of documents unknown or not open to other researchers. He also has a sense of both drama and character as well as the context of Churchill's time. ... Roberts' portrait comes warts and all, allowing, for instance, that the leader who decried Nazi air attacks on London would order the leveling by bombing of whole German cities. The author delivers a clear, well-limned view of a complex figure who, in no danger of being forgotten, continues to inspire.... [this is] The most comprehensive single-volume biography of Churchill that we have in print and a boon for any student of the statesman and his times." ---
