A books which traces Churchill's life in the news from cradle to grave, showing how tensions between tradition and novelty played into his constantly evolving media image.

Richard Toye is Professor of Modern History at the University of Exeter. He previously worked at the University of Cambridge. He has written widely on modern British and international political and economic history. His critically acclaimed book Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness won him the 2007 Times Higher Young Academic Author of the Year Award. He lives in Exeter with his wife and two sons.

• Introduction


• 1: A Pushing Age


• 2: Stage Thunder


• 3: Any Home News?


• 4: Hell with the Lid Off


• 5: Born to Trouble


• 6: 'Worse than the Nazis'


• 7: 'The War is not Fought to Amuse the Newspapers'


• 8: Whose Finger?


• Conclusion