Further reading

Here are some further reading suggestions, covering a range of interpretations:

Churchill

•  Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny (2018)

•  Richard Toye, Churchill’s Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made (2010)

• Madhusree Mukerjee, Churchill’s Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II (2013)

• William Manchester, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill. (1989)

•  Robert Rhodes James, Churchill, A Study in Failure, 1900-1939 (1973)

•  Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Churchill’s Shadow: The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill (2021)

You can also read our blog posts that summarise the cases for and against Winston Churchill.

Stalin

•  Robert Tucker, Stalin in Power (1990)

•  Isaac Deutscher, Stalin: A Political Biography (1949)

• O Figes, The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia (2007)

• S S Montefiore Stalin, The Court of the Red Tsar (2003)

• Sheila Fitzpatrick, Stalin’s Peasants (1994)

• Sheila Fitzpatrick, Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921-1934 (1979)

• D. Filtzer, Soviet Workers and Stalinist Industrialization (1986)

• Stephen Kotkin, Magnetic Mountain (1995)

You can also read our blog posts offering a range of perspectives on Stalin, here and here.