Sam Leith Sam Leith

Churchill was as mad as a badger. We should all be thankful

A review of The Literary Churchill: Author, Reader, Actor, by Jonathan Rose. The stopped-clock version of how Churchill got the fascists right is horribly convincing. But he still ends up the hero

Churchill reading in his library at Chartwell [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy] 
issue 19 April 2014
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