Churchill: uma vida Vol. I Book pdf

The official biographer of Winston Churchill and a leading historian on the Twentieth Century, Sir Martin Gilbert was a scholar and an historian who, though his 88 books, has shown there is such a thing as “true history” Born in London in 1936, Martin Gilbert was educated at Highgate School, and Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating with First Class Honours. He was a Research Scholar at St Anthony's College, and became a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford in 1962, and an Honorary Fellow in 1994. After working as a researcher for Randolph Churchill, Gilbert was chosen to take over the writing of the Churchill biography upon Randolph's death in 1968, writing six of the eight volumes of biography and editing twelve volumes of documents. In addition, Gilbert has written pioneering and classic works on the First and Second World Wars, the Twentieth Century, the Holocaust, and Jewish history. Gilbert drove every aspect of his books, from finding archives to corresponding with eyewitnesses and participants that gave his work veracity and meaning, to finding and choosing illustrations, drawing maps that mention each place in the text, and compiling the indexes. He travelled widely lecturing and researching, advised political figures and filmmakers, and gave a voice and a name “to those who fought and those who fell.

Churchill: uma vida Vol. I book pdf by Martin Gilbert

Escrito pelo biógrafo oficial de Churchill, o historiador mundialmente consagrado Martin Gilbert, este livro é a mais completa biografia já escrita sobre um dos estadistas mais importantes de todos os tempos – um homem de inteligência sublime e personalidade explosiva que esteve no centro de acontecimentos fundamentais do século XX. Elaborado a partir de anos de pesquisa meticulosa e documentação exclusiva, e repleto de material apenas recentemente descoberto, Churchill – uma vida é o casamento perfeito entre a dureza dos fatos da vida pública e os detalhes íntimos de um homem que exerceu papel preponderante para a divisão do mundo como o conhecemos hoje.