Compellingly readable and brilliantly nuanced, Max Hastings. Finest Years brings Churchill at war to vital, vivid life. By examining him both through the eyes of those who knew him well and through the eyes of a wider cast of significant characters - including Russians and Americans - he draws a rounded picture of the reality behind the icon: heroic and demanding of heroism in others; far-sighted but capable of folly; sometimes deeply unpopular, yet loved and admired.