In a masterly synthesis, Gilbert puts Churchill's never entirely easy relationships with presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower in the right context - nothing less than the survival of democracy in Europe. "Winston Churchill, the half-American savior of Britain, had a love affair that Sir Martin Gilbert, the official biographer, is uniquely equipped to describe and discuss: that with the United States. James Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers and Flyboys In Churchill and America, the incomparable Martin Gilbert tells the fascinating story of the man who embodied the trans-Atlantic alliance that still endures." many times over a span of sixty-six years. "Winston Churchill was one-half American and he journeyed to the U.S.
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