The Bibliography of Winston Churchill includes the major scholarly and nonfiction books and scholarly articles on the career of Winston Churchill, as well as other online sources of information.
Bibliography Biographies
Cannadine, David. The Aristocratic Adventurer, (Penguin, 2005). Catherwood, Christopher. Winston Churchill: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020), a biography by topics, arranged alphabetically. online Charmley, John. Churchill: The End of Glory. A Political Biography (1993), a revisionist book that emphasizes his political weaknesses and mistakes down to 1945. He argues that Churchill led Britain into bankruptcy, lost the British Empire, and opened the way for American world domination. See also online book review Cooper, Esmond. Winston Churchill for Kids: The Story of Bravery, Dreams, and Dedication (2023), for ages 3 to 7.
Hoare, Jerry, and Ellen Labrecque. Who Was Winston Churchill? (Penguin Young Readers Group, 2015) for ages 8 to 12. Jackson, Ashley. Churchill (2011) online, a major biography Jenkins, Roy. Churchill (2001), a major biography. online Keegan, John. Winston Churchill (Penguin, 2007), brief life.
Manchester, William The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill Alone 1932–1940 (Little, Brown, 1988). Manchester, William The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940–1965 (2012). Paul Reid, who completed the volume after Manchester's death in 2004, listed as co-author. Millard, Candice. Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill (2016) Pearson, John. Citadel of the Heart, Winston and the Churchill Dynasty. (Pan, 1993) Pelling, Henry. Winston Churchill (1974) online, a major scholarly biography
, a major scholarly biography. Shelden, Michael. Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill (Simon & Schuster 2013), 1900 to 1914. Tariq, Ali. Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes (Verso Books 2022)
Official biographies by Randolph Churchill and Martin Gilbert The Churchill family controls many of the documents and has authorized an 8-volume official biography. It was started by his son Randolph Churchill (1911–1968) and finished after his death by Martin Gilbert (1936–2015), a scholar at Oxford. It included "Companion volumes" filled with original sources. The total is 28 volumes with over 30,000 pages and many illustrations. The detail is so thorough and minute that the broader context is obscure and hard to follow.
Churchill, Randolph. Winston S. Churchill: Volume One: Youth, 1874–1900 (1966) online Churchill, Randolph. Winston S. Churchill: Volume Two: Young Statesman, 1901–1914 (1967) ; condensed in one volume. Winston S. Churchill: The Challenge of War 1914–16 (1971), online Winston S. Churchill: The Stricken World 1917–22 (1975) online as "The World in Torment" Winston S. Churchill: Prophet of Truth 1922–1939 (1979) online Winston S. Churchill: Finest Hour, 1939–1941 (1983) online Winston S. Churchill: Road to Victory, 1941–1945 (1986) online Winston S. Churchill: Never Despair 1945–1965 (1988) online Gilbert, Martin. In search of Churchill : a historian's journey (1994) online Gilbert, Martin. Churchill and America (Simon and Schuster, 2005) Gilbert, Martin. The will of the people : Winston Churchill and parliamentary democracy (2006) Gilbert, Martin. Churchill & the Jews: A Lifelong Friendship (2007).
Companion volumes These books contain a very large collection of primary sources, especially memoranda written by Churchill, letters to him and from him, and notes of meetings he attended. Very few of the Companion books are online. Churchill, Randolph, ed. Winston S. Churchill: Volume One Companion, 1874–1900 (1966, in two parts) Churchill, Randolph, ed. Winston S. Churchill: Volume Two Companion, 1900–1914 (1969, in three parts). vol 2 part 2 1907–1911 online (in two volumes) (in three volumes)
World War II See also the biographies above, especially Jackson (2011), Jenkins (2001), Pelling (1974) and Roberts (2018).
Barker, Elisabeth. Churchill and Eden at war (1978), foreign policy. online Bell, Christopher M. “The ‘Singapore Strategy’ and the Deterrence of Japan: Winston Churchill, the Admiralty and the Dispatch of Force Z.” English Historical Review 116#467 (2001) pp. 604–634. online Ben-Moshe, Tuvia. “Winston Churchill and the ‘Second Front’: A Reappraisal.” Journal of Modern History, 62#3 (1990), pp. 503–537. online Bercuson, Holger, and David; Herwig. One Christmas in Washington: The Secret Meeting Between Roosevelt & Churchill That Changed the World (2005) online Bernstein, Barton J. “The Uneasy Alliance: Roosevelt, Churchill and the Atom Bomb, 1940–1945.” Western Political Quarterly 29#2 (1976) pp. 202–230. Berthon, Simon. Allies at War: The Bitter Rivalry Among Churchill, Roosevelt, and De Gaulle (2001) online; focus on France. Biddle, Tami Davis. “Democratic Leaders and Strategies of Coalition Warfare: Churchill and Roosevelt in World War II.” in The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age, edited by Hal Brands, (Princeton UP, 2023), pp. 569–592. online Charmley, John. Churchill's Grand Alliance: The Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1940–1957: (1995). Cowman, Ian. "Main fleet to Singapore? Churchill, the admiralty, and force Z." Journal of Strategic Studies 17.2 (1994): 79–93. Dilks, David. Churchill and company: Allies and rivals in war and peace (Bloomsbury, 2012) online Dockter, A. Warren. "Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill: Power relations." in The Palgrave Handbook of Presidents and Prime Ministers From Cleveland and Salisbury to Trump and Johnson (Springer International Publishing, 2022) pp. 133–155. Feis, Herbert. Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin: The war they waged and the peace they sought (Princeton UP, 1957) online Fenby, Jonathan. Alliance: The Inside Story of How Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill Won One War and Began Another (2007), popular history. online Gorodetsky, Gabriel. “The Origins of the Cold War: Stalin, Churchill and the Formation of the Grand Alliance.” The Russian Review, 47#2 (1988), pp. 145–170. online, argues Churchill was hostile toward Communism in World War II Hastings, Max. Finest Years. Churchill as Warlord, 1940–45 (HarperCollins. 2009) Hermiston, Roger. All Behind You, Winston: Churchill's Great Coalition 1940–45 (2016) online. Kimball, Warren F. Forged in War: Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Second World War (1997). Kitchen, Martin. "Winston Churchill and the Soviet Union during the Second World War." The Historical Journal 30.2 (1987): 415–436. online Lash, Joseph P. Roosevelt and Churchill, 1939–1941: The partnership that saved the West (2021) online. Lukacs, John. Blood, toil, tears, and sweat: the dire warning (2008) background Maguire, Lori. " 'We Shall Fight': A Rhetorical Analysis of Churchill's Famous Speech." Rhetoric & Public Affairs 17.2 (2014): 255–286, online Meacham, Jon. Franklin and Winston: A Portrait of a Friendship (Granta Books, 2016). Parker, RAC. Churchill and Appeasement (2000). Parker is unusual among historians in his sympathy for Churchill's claim that Britain and France could have deterred Hitler by forming a "Grand Alliance" with the USSR. Peden, G.C. Churchill, Chamberlain and Appeasement (Cambridge UP, 2022). Pitt, Barrie. Churchill and the Generals (1981). Written to accompany a 1979 series of TV plays. Preston, Diana. Eight Days at Yalta: How Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin Shaped the Post-war World (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2020). Ramsden, John. "Churchill and the Germans." Contemporary British History 25.01 (2011): 125–139. online
Reynolds, David. "The ‘Big three’ and the division of Europe, 1945–48: An overview." Diplomacy and Statecraft 1.2 (1990): 111–136. Reynolds, David. From World War to Cold War: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the International History of the 1940s (Oxford UP, 2006). Roberts, Andrew. Masters and commanders : how four titans won the war in the west, 1941–1945 (2009) Schneer, Jonathan. Ministers at War: Winston Churchill and His War Cabinet (Basic Books, 2015). Shakespeare, Nicholas. SIx Minutes in May (2018). Study of the Norway Campaign, the subsequent Commons debate, and the emergence of Churchill as Prime Minister. Stafford, David. Churchill and Secret Service (1999) online Stafford, David. Roosevelt and Churchill : men of secrets (2000) online Thompson, Neville. The Third Man: Churchill, Roosevelt, Mackenzie King, and the Untold Friendships that Won WWII (2021), on Canada's role. Todman, Daniel. Britain's War: Into Battle, 1937–1941 (Oxford UP, 2016) Todman, Daniel. Britain's War: A New World: 1942–1947 (Oxford UP, 2020); in-depth scholarly survey. Toye, Richard. "This famous island is the home of freedom’: Winston Churchill and the battle for ‘European civilization." History of European Ideas 46.5 (2020): 666–680. online Woodward, Llewellyn. British foreign policy in the Second World War (1962), summary of his five volume history. online
Specialty studies Addison, Paul. "The political beliefs of Winston Churchill." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 30 (1980): 23–47. online Addison, Paul. Churchill on the home front, 1900–1955 (Faber & Faber, 2013). Ball, Stuart. "Churchill and the Conservative party." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 11 (2001): 307–330. online Bédarida, François. "Winston Churchill's image of France and the French." Historical Research 74.183 (2001): 95–105. Bell, Christopher M. Churchill and the Dardanelles (2017), focus on the Gallipoli campaign's origins and execution. online Bell, Christopher M. Churchill and Sea Power (Oxford UP, 2013). A reply to the writings of Nicholas Lambert (not to be confused with Andrew Lambert), who argues that the pre-WW1 Royal Navy was beginning to reorient itself towards a strategy of torpedo boats and economic warfare rather than traditional big-gun battleship warfare. Bew, Paul. Churchill and Ireland (2016). collection of essays on aspects of his career and opinions Gilbert, Bentley B. "Winston Churchill versus the Webbs: The origins of British unemployment insurance." American Historical Review 71.3 (1966): 846–862. online Carlton, David. Churchill and the Soviet Union (2000). Catherwood, Christopher. Churchill's Folly: How Winston Churchill Created Iraq. Carroll and Graf, US (2004) Catterall, Peter. "Churchill as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1924–9) and the return to the gold standard." (Churchill Archive. 2013). online
Dawson, R. MacGregor. “The Cabinet Minister and Administration: Winston S. Churchill at the Admiralty 1911–1915.” Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science (1940), pp. 325–358. D'Este, Carlo. Warlord: Churchill At War 1874–1965 (2009).
Faught, C. Brad. Churchill and Africa: Empire, Decolonisation and Africa. (Pen and Sword, 2023). Franklin, Mark, and Matthew Ladner. “The Undoing of Winston Churchill: Mobilization and Conversion in the 1945 Realignment of British Voters.” British Journal of Political Science, vol. 25, no. 4, 1995, pp. 429–452. online explores why voters turned against him in 1945. Harbutt, Fraser J. The iron curtain: Churchill, America, and the origins of the Cold War (Oxford UP, 1988). Herman, Arthur. Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire & Forged Our Age (2008), on India Hermiston, Roger. All Behind You, Winston – Churchill's Great Coalition, 1940–45 (2016). Holmes, Richard. In The Footsteps of Churchill (2005). Hughes, E. J. “Winston Churchill and the Formation of the United Nations Organization.” Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 9, no. 4, 1974, pp. 177–194. online, on his support for League of Nations and UN. James, Lawrence. Churchill and empire : a portrait of an imperialist (2013)