![]() ![]() The written wordÄocuments within the official biography come from hundreds of archives, but mostly that of Churchill himself. They would inherit a treasure trove of information and then proceed to add to its volume and value over the ensuing decades. Randolph hired the young historian Martin Gilbert in 1962 as his research assistant. The official biography would begin a year later in 1961. Here Churchill finalizes a suggestion he had made years earlier. In any case I do not want anything to be published until at least five years after my death. I would not like to release my papers piece-meal, and I think that you should wait for the time being and then get all your material from my own Archives and from the Trust. But I must ask you to defer this until after my death. I think that your biography of Derby 1 is a remarkable work, and I should be happy that you should write my official biography when the time comes. One will find in this volume a letter that Churchill wrote to his son Randolph in 1960: It is the last step in a journey that began over half a century ago, but prepared for decades earlier. Together with the narrative texts, the work comprises thirty-one volumes in all. ![]() ![]() Never Flinch, Never Weary, 1951-1965 is the twenty-third volume of documents in the official biography of Winston Churchill. ![]()
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