The first volume of the official biography of Winston S.Churchill, covering the years from Churchill's birth to the beginning of his political career. The book contains Churchill's letters written as a child, as a boy at Harrow, as a cadet at Sandhurst, and later as a subaltern in India. This edition of the book includes a new introduction by Martin Gilbert, who, after the death of Randolph Churchill, took over and completed the eight volume biography.
- ISBN10 0749391081
- ISBN13 9780749391089
- Publish Date 7 March 1991 (first published June 1967)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 October 1996
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Minerva
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 656
- Language English