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“There are many good biographies of Churchill…I like Best because it’s shorter than the others. It’s well written. It covers the main issues and, as you can tell from its title, it addresses the issue of most interest to me in writing The Titans of the Twentieth Century, and that is Churchill’s greatness.” Read more...
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