Attlee and Churchill. Leo McKinstry. 2019.

During the crisis of the Second World War, Clement Attlee and Winston Churchill forged a partnership that transcended party lines, before facing each other in two of Britain’s most important and influential general elections.

Based on extensive research and archival material, Attlee and Churchill brings to life this vibrant, traumatic and inspiring era of modern British history and sheds new light on the relationship between these extraordinary leaders. From the bizarre coincidence that that they shared a governess, to their  explosive wartime clashes over domestic policy and reconstruction; and from Britain’s post-war nuclear weapons programme, to the private correspondence between the two men in later life, Leo McKinstry tells the intertwined story of two political titans as never before.