Churchill, 1874-1922

by Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith Birkenhead

The descendent of WSC's greatest friend - FE Smith - writes a life of Churchill that speaks to him as both a person and a leader - without turning it into a gossipy piety.

552 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead was a British historian. He is best known for writing a controversial biography of Rudyard Kipling that was suppressed by the Kipling family for many years, and which, in fact, he never lived to see in print. The son of F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, he was known as Viscount Furneaux from 1922, when his father, then 1st Viscount Birkenhead, was created Earl of Birkenhead. Lord Furneaux was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford and inherited his father's peerages in 1930.