David Dilks was for more than 20 years Professor of International History at the University of Leeds, and then Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull. He previously worked as research assistant to Sir Anthony Eden, Mr Harold Macmillan, Lord Tedder and others closely associated with Churchill, and served as President of the International Committee for the History of the Second World War from 1992 to 2000. He is the author of Curzon in India, Neville Chamberlain and "The Great Dominion": Winston Churchill in Canada 1900- 1954, and editor of The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan.

'Excellent' - Andrew Roberts, BBC History Magazine 'David Dilks is more than a pre-eminent historian of Churchill. For decades he has known friends and colleagues of Churchill and has a comprehensive grasp of the literature. His tempered view encompasses Churchill occasionally as a domineering bully, and sometimes as a despondent politician, but almost always as a buoyant, inspiring and high-spirited personality with creative imagination and energy of mind as well as body. Churchill and Company offers fresh and original insight into the most remarkable statesman of the twentieth century.' [Wm. Roger Louis, Kerr Chair in English History and Culture and Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Texas at Austin] Entertaining Charles Moore, Daily Telegraph

• List of AbbreviationsPreface1.Churchill Up and Churchill Down: Politics and the Art of the Impossible2.Great Britain, the Commonwealth and the Wider World 1939-19453.An Affair of the Heart: Churchill and France4.Rights, Wrongs and Rivalries: Britain and France in 19455.Churchill, Eden and Stalin6.Epic and Tragedy: Britain and Poland 1941-19457.The Bitter Fruit of Victory: Churchill and an Unthinkable Operation, 19458.The Solitary Pilgrimage: Churchill and the Russians 1951-19559.‘Historians are Dangerous’: Churchill, Chamberlain and Some Others Principal CharactersSelect Bibliography

David Dilks was for more than 20 years Professor of International History at the University of Leeds, and then Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull. He previously worked as research assistant to Sir Anthony Eden, Mr Harold Macmillan, Lord Tedder and others closely associated with Churchill, and served as President of the International Committee for the History of the Second World War from 1992 to 2000. He is the author of Curzon in India, Neville Chamberlain and "The Great Dominion": Winston Churchill in Canada 1900- 1954, and editor of The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan.

'Excellent' - Andrew Roberts, BBC History Magazine 'David Dilks is more than a pre-eminent historian of Churchill. For decades he has known friends and colleagues of Churchill and has a comprehensive grasp of the literature. His tempered view encompasses Churchill occasionally as a domineering bully, and sometimes as a despondent politician, but almost always as a buoyant, inspiring and high-spirited personality with creative imagination and energy of mind as well as body. Churchill and Company offers fresh and original insight into the most remarkable statesman of the twentieth century.' [Wm. Roger Louis, Kerr Chair in English History and Culture and Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Texas at Austin] Entertaining Charles Moore, Daily Telegraph

• List of AbbreviationsPreface1.Churchill Up and Churchill Down: Politics and the Art of the Impossible2.Great Britain, the Commonwealth and the Wider World 1939-19453.An Affair of the Heart: Churchill and France4.Rights, Wrongs and Rivalries: Britain and France in 19455.Churchill, Eden and Stalin6.Epic and Tragedy: Britain and Poland 1941-19457.The Bitter Fruit of Victory: Churchill and an Unthinkable Operation, 19458.The Solitary Pilgrimage: Churchill and the Russians 1951-19559.‘Historians are Dangerous’: Churchill, Chamberlain and Some Others Principal CharactersSelect Bibliography