Taking up the mantle of Winston Churchill, Roberts delivers the ambitious sequel to one of the greatest, most influential books of the 20th century. In 1900, where Churchill ended the fourth volume of his History of the English Speaking Peoples, the United States had not yet emerged onto the world scene as a great power. Meanwhile, the British Empire was in decline but did not yet know it. Any number of other powers might have won primacy in the twentieth...

Covers the period from the Treaty of Versailles to Churchill's appointment as Prime Minister in 1940.

Examines the relationship between Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt through interviews and unpublished letters, their joint effort in World War Two, their personal friendship and disagreements, and the interaction between their individual families.