Andrew Roberts

What the Marxist Tariq Ali gets wrong about Winston Churchill

In a biography riddled with factual errors, Ali portrays Churchill as cruel, incompetent and blinded by prejudice

Winston Churchill's statue in Parliament Square after it was defaced (photo: Getty images)
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  • Winston Churchill:
 His Times, His Crimes

    Tariq Ali

    Verso, pp. 423, £20

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