Books, Arts & Manners: Reconnaissance in Force

Winston Churchill, by Piers Brendon (Harper & Row, 234 pp„ $16.95)

In the past two years, Ted Morgan has published six hundred pages on Winston Churchill (from birth to 1915), William Manchester almost one thousand (the first of two volumes, taking Churchill to 1939), and Martin Gilbert, his official biographer, over 1,300 (1939 to 1941). This may seem excessive, but, as has been observed, an epic subject invites a certain excess.

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Winston Churchill, by Piers Brendon (Harper & Row, 234 pp„ $16.95)

In the past two years, Ted Morgan has published six hundred pages on Winston Churchill (from birth to 1915), William Manchester almost one thousand (the first of two volumes, taking Churchill to 1939), and Martin Gilbert, his official biographer, over 1,300 (1939 to 1941). This may seem excessive, but, as has been observed, an epic subject invites a certain excess.