Walking With Destiny

Title of the Book: Walking With Destiny
Author: Andrew Roberts
Number of Pages: 982
Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

Review:

You’ll never acquire such myriad knowledge on Winston Churchill without reading Walking With Destiny by Andrew Roberts. Characterization, background, childhood, history, relationships, battles, and careers are not only included in Churchill’s improbable story, but broken down into an understandable concept that provides insight and esoteric information. Regardless if you’re looking for facts about Churchill himself, or just the history of his time, you won’t regret reading the book in order to get a unique aspect and point of view. It not only provides the physicalities of his journey, such as imagery of Churchill in prison and his breakout step by step, but also his methodical ideas and feelings maturing into an adult. Aside from using his personal and political experiences to influence his writing, Andrew Roberts also amalgamated evidence to juxtapose other well-known leaders with Churchill. This included Adolf Hitler, John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, each with their own leadership styles, public response, and authority over certain situations. 

Both the Author of Walking With Destiny and the former Prime Minister of the U.K are go-getters, using their journalism to jump into action to fulfil maximum intelligence on each piece of writing they create. Andrew Roberts has a very enthusiastic tone with Churchill, and staggeringly relates to him both professionally and personally. One example starts with Churchill’s childhood, being described as lonely without his parents and horrifically beaten by his teachers. Andrew himself had been beaten by students in school, dealing with the constant struggle through intoxication and acts of vandalism. 

The first quotation Andrew put into the book said by Churchill was, “It is said that famous men are usually the product of unhappy childhood. The stern compression of circumstances, the twinges of adversity, the spur of slights and taunts in early years are needed to evoke that ruthless fixity of purpose and tenacious mother-with without which great actions are seldom accomplished (Roberts 7).” This quotation had been placed because it hit so close to home with the author, and most other references included for that same reason. From this, Andrew is passionate about the man Churchill was, and could really prove how influential his leadership was. His biography is exceedingly lively due to this circumstance, and it's explicit that Andrew enjoyed writing the book as much as I enjoyed reading it. 

I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in politics, just because it brings a massive background about what it’s like to be so involved with the subject. I also recommend this biography to those who enjoy history, because this book is like a never before story, retelling Churchill’s life in such a way that’s so vastly different from any other.