Peter Caddick-Adams.
Peter CADDICK-ADAMS
WINSTON CHURCHILL (2024)
Winston Churchill (born 1874) was one of the most prominent politicians of the twentieth century. He had a 64 year parliamentary career, playing a critical role in the Second World War as Britain’s wartime Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945. He was Prime Minister again from 1951 to 1955, retiring from Parliament in 1964, and dying in 1965. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was a descendant of the 1st Duke of Marlborough, and Churchill was born at the family’s ancestral home, Blenheim Palace. His mother, Jennie, was the daughter of the wealthy American businessman, Leonard Jerome.
After his education at Harrow School, Churchill entered the army, serving in Cuba, India and Sudan. His writing career began when he joined, as a journalist, Bindon Blood’s Malakand Field Force fighting Mohmand rebels in North East India’s Swat Valley.
Biographer Andrew Roberts wrote of the book: ‘No-one could be better qualified to write this excellent summation of the life and times of Winston Churchill than Peter Caddick-Adams. His lifetime’s immersement in the study of the period, his wide and deep research, his first-class writing style and his lively sense of humour combine to make this book a really excellent addition to the ever-burgeoning Churchill oeuvre'.
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Peter Caddick-Adams (born 1960) writes on military history, defence and security issues. He took his history degree at the University of Wolverhampton, and his PhD at Cranfield University. He taught Military and Security Studies at the UK Defence Academy for twenty years, and also lectured on military history for the Royal Air Force. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Geographical Society, he also spent thirty-five years as an officer in the UK Regular and Reserve Forces, serving in several war zones, including Afghanistan, the Balkans and Iraq.
