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Richard Toye

Richard Toye

Richard Toye is Professor of Modern History at the University of Exeter, UK. He is the author of, among other works, Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness (2007), Churchill’s Empire: The World that Made Him and the World He Made (2010), and The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Churchill’s World War II Speeches (2013).

Richard Toye reviews 'The Literary Churchill' by Jonathan Rose

June–July 2014, no. 362 27 May 2014
On the rear jacket of this fascinating and important book is a picture of Winston Churchill at his desk at Chartwell, his house in Kent, just a few months before the outbreak of World War II. Apparently caught in the moment of literary creation, cigar in mouth and concentrating on his papers, the photo credit – to a Picture Post photographer – leads to the obvious suspicion that this was actua ... (read more)