With the publication of the final volume, Never Flinch, Never Weary, October 1951-January 1965, the official biography of Winston Churchill has been completed. As determined by the Guinness Book of World Records (the arbiter of such things), it is the longest biography in history. The completed project consists of eight narrative volumes and 23 document volumes. It has both physical and intellectual heft. Together the volumes, which have been acclaimed as a “classic of English scholarly biography,” total over 42,000 pages, measure 72 linear inches, and weigh 108 pounds. As Larry Arnn, the biography’s final editor, has commented its mammoth size is “befitting one of the largest lives ever lived.”
The story of the “Great Biography” starts in 1960 as the then 85 year-old Winston Churchill selected his son Randolph to write his biography based on his voluminous personal papers. Randolph Churchill had proven himself capable by researching and…
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