Graham Stewart

Premier Passenger

Chasing Churchill: The Travels of Winston Churchill

By

HarperCollins 293pp £20 order from our bookshop

Insularity is commonly thought to be a bad sign in world leaders. For all their talk of the spread of international socialism, the grey men of the Politburo did not get out and about much. Kremlinologists had to divine signs of broad-mindedness by trying to discover if any of them liked Scotch whisky or owned a Crombie overcoat. It was not much to go on, but then there were so few other leads. The first we knew of Mrs Andropov was when she toddled along to her husband’s funeral.

Sign Up to our newsletter

Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more.

Follow Literary Review on Twitter

  • Last Tweets

    • Same trouble, different decade. Turns out this is not the first time has graced our humble cover.… ,
    • 'Gresham played an essential part in ensuring the stability of Tudor rule, in ways not always recognised in textboo… ,
    • Iris Murdoch was born one hundred years ago today. Thirty-six years ago, we published this interview with her ,
    • 'The official narrative has been that since the end of coal-burning in homes in the 1950s and the demise of heavy i… ,
    • 'Porter’s is a cacophonous vision that continually recalls the playwright Tony Kushner’s characterisation of Americ… ,
    • Lucy Moore makes her way through the Italian city of Otranto, discussing the origins of the Gothic and the legacy o… ,
    • .@NJCooper_crime's July crime roundup includes 'horrifying' and 'imaginative' new novels by @sarah_hilary,… ,
    Follow Us