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Churchill
- Walking with Destiny
- Lu par : Stephen Thorne
- Durée : 50 h et 28 min
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- Catégories : Biographies et mémoires, Historiques

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Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in 20th-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world.
There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts now draws on over 40 new sources, including the private diaries of King George VI, used in no previous Churchill biography, to depict him more intimately and persuasively than any of its predecessors. Masterfully narrated by Stephen Thorne, this audiobook in no way conceals Churchill's faults, and it allows the listener to appreciate his virtues and character in full: his titanic capacity for work (and drink), his ability see the big picture, his willingness to take risks and insistence on being where the action was, his good humour even in the most desperate circumstances, the breadth and strength of his friendships and his extraordinary propensity to burst into tears at unexpected moments. Above all, it shows us the wellsprings of his personality - his lifelong desire to please his father (even long after his father's death) but aristocratic disdain for the opinions of almost everyone else, his love of the British Empire, his sense of history and its connection to the present.
During the Second World War, Churchill summoned a particular scientist to see him several times for technical advice. 'It was the same whenever we met', wrote the young man. 'I had a feeling of being recharged by a source of living power.' Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's emissary, wrote, 'Wherever he was, there was a battlefront.' Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, Churchill's essential partner in strategy and most severe critic in private, wrote in his diary, 'I thank God I was given such an opportunity of working alongside such a man, and of having my eyes opened to the fact that occasionally such supermen exist on this earth.'
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- Remi C.
- 02/07/2022
A great book on a great person
This audio book is well written with numerous and stunning examples and the performance, when reading it, is outstanding. A true achievement. Given its length, it is remarkable that from start to finish, it remains so interesting. Thank you.
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- Mr David B
- 28/11/2021
Sublime
I found this audio book absolutely fantastic. It got me researching so many historical facts. I discovered a great man who stuck to his guns for what’s right.
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- Nicholas Robinson
- 07/12/2018
His Finest 50 Hours (and 28 minutes)
I have to say, first and foremost, before anything else, that this is hands down the best audiobook I've ever listened to--and I've listened to a few.
It's not for any particular love of Churchill, although I do confess to having adored him long before I came to this book. It's rather the incredible complexity of his seemingly never-ending life; I never fail to remark that he usually had done (or achieved) more things before noon on his average day than I have in my lifetime, and that furthermore, at 61 I find my life winding down. Contemplating _directing a world war_ three years from now and then continuing that for a _further five years_ is, well, inconceivable, but the fact that he did it with such wit, intelligence and just unparalleled WISDOM is just beyond words.
And to have almost every moment of this incredible life--I would put Churchill's ultimate importance to humanity in the top five, if not at the very top--recorded to be played at my leisure, for so many hour (upon delicious hour) read, I might add, by the most able and enjoyable narrator I have EVER had the pleasure to listen to . . . well, never in the making of audiobooks was so much enjoyment created by so many for so few (dollars).
May I ask the Right Honorable Attending to accept my strolling (just about everywhere) ovation.
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- Kwêvoël
- 09/11/2020
Immersion in a life of Churchillian proportions
The narrator did an excellent job and the biography was not the singe thread sequential life stories I’ve encountered before biased by authors perceptions ... it was a fascinating patchwork of al that was going on around the man and others in his times - letters. diaries, personal papers available to researchers in archived in 2010. It was a marathon listen ... and I will listen to it again and again ... I often did listen to sections several times as a result o playing it at bedtime & losing my place when I fell asleep ... and never fast forwarded through stuff I heard before .... mostly I was astonished at what I didn’t hear the first time ... the pace, like the man’s life & his fellow men, never let up. Remarkable life, remarkable times & remarkably woven together this coat of many colours ...
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- Amazon Customer
- 02/06/2020
Excellent Read
Author is obviously a Churchill fan and that is to be kept in mind. However the fact that he keeps going back on Churchill's childhood neglect as the reason for his perseverance and will is really annoying. It's enough to mention it, saying it could be a motivating factor, but to keep implying it was one of the main reasons for his success is ridiculous. Churchill was a man built for greatness, and he achieved all of it himself through sheer will. And even if his childhood circumstances were favorable, I doubt it would have changed the many things he achieved and the ideologies he held. This is purely hypothetical ofcourse - just like the author was in every other chapter.
Also, one point to note is most of the book is a lot of direct quotations from various characters, with minimal commentary from the author, who was just sewing events together. This, I realized is what made this book wonderful. The ending, where the author himself expressed views on the various events in Churchill's life- almost categorizing them, arbitrarily, into good and bad left me annoyed. So although I loved the book, I like the author for his compilation - not his writing.
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- Cliente Amazon
- 30/04/2020
Best Churchill biography
If you want to be a resilient person and how to learn from your blunders you must read this book. I was so pleased during the reading of the book that certainly I lost my sense of space and time.
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- Nora
- 14/12/2019
Fascinating
What an interesting man! This is an extremely well-researched and written book which gives a fascinating insight into a tense time. I didn't know much about Churchill before starting this 50 hours long journey but was utterly absorbed and am now a big fan of the legend with all his idiosyncrasies.
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- Anonymous User
- 23/10/2019
must read
amazing reading, amazing story. imensly informative and touching. an unbelievable story, yet fully supported by the facts
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- James Fowler
- 18/02/2019
A very human yet informative biography
I thoroughly enjoyed the book. The book (as well as the reader ) did an excellent job capturing Churchill's great oratory, humour, idiosyncrasies, sense of history, and great love for the English-speaking Peoples.
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- Dr A S Menon-Johansson
- 27/03/2022
The book was so fascinating I could have listened for another 51 hours
Before this book my knowledge about Churchill was superficial. This book was so fascinating that I could have listened for another 51 hours.
It was wonderful to get to learn about such a unique individual. He was simply a hero of mythical proportions and most politicians since have only a fraction of his energy, passion, courage and tenacity.
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- kay
- 02/07/2020
Amazing reading. Amazing book
Churchil is by far the "nicest" leader in the 20th century.
human
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husband
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- Antje K.
- 22/05/2020
Absolutely magnificent
Took me 7+ months to finish, and I loved every minute of it. Highly entertaining, captivating, funny and enlightening. Both Andrew Roberts and Stephen Thorne deserve praise.
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 06/02/2021
Tiefes eintauchen in ein bewegtes Leben
Es werden alle Seiten beleuchtet und ich habe ein vielschichtiges Bild von Churchill erhalten.
Die vielen kleinen Details über sein Wesen sind charmant beschrieben und der Leser leistet ganze Arbeit.
Die 55 Stunden waren ein echter Genuss und Menschen denen Geschichte am Herzen liegt, werden hier auf ihre Kosten kommen.
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- Amazon Kunde
- 31/05/2021
Magnificent
What a witty, extraordinary, deep, well written and well spoken audiobook. Can only encourage everyone to hear it.
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- McDuffee
- 26/10/2021
Betonung erliegt britischer Korrektheit
Das Leben eines der größten, facettenreichsten, vielseitigsten und wichtigsten Personen, die die Weltgeschichte je hervorgebracht zusammengefasst in einem Hörbuch. Es ist eine absolut vollständige, jeden Bereich seines langen Lebens beleuchtentende und dabei durchaus neutral berichtende Erzählung des Lebens, Wirkens und Schaffens von Sir Winston Churchill.
Leider nimmt der monotone Sprecher viel Konzentration in Anspruch, was auf Dauer sehr anstrengend sein kann. Jedoch ist es auch nicht einfach alles was dieser einzigartige Politiker, Soldat, Schmetterlingssammler, Maler, Autor und Schriftsteller (u.v.m.) gesagt, getan und bewegt hat in der korrekten Betonung wiederzugeben.
Schönes Hörbuch, das seinem titelgebenden Akteur fast gerecht wird.
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- D.A.
- 22/06/2022
Einfach Klasse
Obwohl es lang ist, wünscht man sich am Ende, dass es noch länger wäre. Wie ein spannendes Roman, aber ist eigentlich eine wahre Geschichte.
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- S.T.
- 21/02/2022
Toll gesprochen!/Very good narrator
Der Sprecher imitiert bei Zitaten sehr gekonnt die Stimme Churchills./The narrator immitates the Voice of Churchill during quotations.
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