Books, Arts & Manners: The Victors’ Table

Winston S. Churchill: The Road to Victory, 1941-1945, by Martin Gilbert (Houghton Mifflin, 1,417 pp., $40)

The seventh volume of the authorized biography of Winston Churchill takes the Great Man through the defeat of Nazi Germany by one of the most remarkable and unlikely alliances ever assembled. It also details the rise of the modern Soviet state.