EMINENT CHURCHILLIANS

CHURCHILL: WALKING WITH DESTINY

Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in 20th-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world. There have been over a thousand biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts now draws on over forty new sources, including the private diaries of King George VI, to depict him more intimately and persuasively than any of its predecessors.

GEORGE III

George III, Britain's longest-reigning king, has gone down in history as 'the cruellest tyrant of this age' (Thomas Paine, 18th century), and 'a sovereign who inflicted more profound and enduring injuries upon this country than any other modern English king' (WEH Lecky, 19th century). Andrew Roberts' magnificent new biography takes entirely the opposite view. It convincingly portrays George as intelligent, benevolent, scrupulously devoted to the constitution of his country and (as head of government as well as head of state) navigating the turbulence of 18th-century politics with a strong sense of honour and duty. He was a devoted husband and family man, a great patron of the arts and sciences, keen ('Farmer George') to advance Britain's agricultural capacity and determined that her horizons should be global. Roberts argues that, far from being a tyrant or incompetent, George III was one of our most admirable monarchs.

LOVE, TOMMY: LETTERS HOME FROM THE GREAT WAR TO THE PRESENT DAY

Over the last 100 years the Imperial War Museum has been gathering together a collection of tens of thousands of letters and archives from British and Commonwealth troops serving on the front line, in conflicts from the First World War through to the ongoing war in Afghanistan. This is a selection of some of the most emotive of these letters.