Churchill

Life&Times
By Sebastian Haffner

Winston Churchill, prime minister and leader of the wartime alliance against Nazi Germany, is a towering figure. When Winston Churchill, prime minister and leader of the wartime alliance against Nazi Germany died, writes Sebastian Haffner, ‘it seemed as if not a mere mortal was buried, but English history itself.’ 

‘One of the most brilliant things of any length written about Churchill’

TLS

Sebastian Haffner emigrated to London from Berlin in 1930s and was a vocal critic of the Nazi regime, writing influential articles in the Observer. After the war, he became Germany's pre-eminent political commentator. His many books include: Germany: Jekyll and Hyde and The Meaning of Hitler and the posthumous publication Defying Hitler: A Memoir.

Introduced by Peter Hennessy, described by the Independent as a 'giant of modern constitutional scholarship'.