The Great Democracies

In my opinion the driest of the four volumes, it maintains Winston's interest in all things political and military, at the expense of everything else. For example, the American Civil war consumes a good third of the book; the Industrial Revolution is almost entirely overlooked. Allowing for this (would we expect anything more or less from Winston?), I'd award four stars, except that I found the Civil War chapters peculiarly tedious - Winston's enthusiasm for battle details got in the way of his writing a truly interesting account of the War.

Still, you can't go past this series. It's a unique account if history by a man who made an awful lot of it. it is compulsory reading if you are interested in Churchill- it tells you as much about the man as the history he describes.