Boris johnson biography of winston churchill

2014 non-fiction book by Boris Johnson

The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History is a book by British politician, journalist and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, in which he details the life of former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.

It was originally published on 23 October 2014 by Hodder & Stoughton.

Plot

Throughout the book, Johnson details the life of statesman, soldier and writer, and former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.

Johnson praises Churchill's efforts as the leader during the Second World War, writing that "he alone saved our civilisation".

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He was eccentric, over the top, camp, with his own special trademark clothes – and a thoroughgoing genius... From his very emergence as a young Tory MP he had bashed and satirised his own party... There were too many Tories who thought of him as an unprincipled opportunist...

His enemies detected in him a titanic egotism, a desire to find whatever wa