Statesman, historian, biographer, and talented amateur painter, whose five years of war leadership (1940-45) secured him a central place in modern British history. Winston Churchill is widely considered the greatest political figure in 20th-century Britain. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. In was an open secret that he would have preferred the Nobel Peace Prize. Churchill's career was anything but predictable: he supported the Zionist movement in Palestine (1921-22), during the Abdication crisis (1926) he was loyal to Edward VIII, and during the 1945 election campaign he tried to brand Labour as a totalitarian party.

'Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, the whole world, including the Unites States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will say, "This was their finest hour."' (Winston Churchill in his speech given to the House of Commons on June 18, 1940)

Winston Churchill was the son of conservative politician Lord Randolph Churchill and his American wife, Jennie Jerome, and a direct descendant from the first Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722). He was born at Blenheim Palace. Against the advice of her doctor, Jennie was attending a ball there. He was two months premature.

Lady Randolph's second son, Jack, was born in 1880, and rumors circulated that he had a different father from Winston Churchill. "George Moore, the Anglo-Irish novelist, said she had 200 lovers, but apart from anything else the number is suspiciously round," Roy Jenkins wrote in his biographical work. (Churchill: A Biography, New York: Plume, 2002, p. 8) "I loved her dearly—but at a distance. My nurse was my confidante," Churchill said of his mother. (My Early Life: A Roving Commission London: The Reprint Society, 1944, p. 13)

In school Churchill was at the bottom of his class, though had an excellent memory. From early on, the career and life of Lord Byron fascinated him, and in old age he could recite from memory long passages of Byron's verse. Between the two world wars, he was a member of the Byron society.

Nothing showed that  Churchill would became "the largest human being of our time" (Isaiah Berlin). Physically he was not a big man — at 5-foot-8 he was shorter than Harry Truman but about the same height than Lenin or Stalin. Churchill attended Harrow and Sandhurst, from which he graduated twentieth in a class of 130. Horses were his grestest pleasure. Shortly after his father's death in 1895, he was commissioned in the Fourth Hussars. He soon obtained a leave, and worked during the Cuban war as a reporter for the London Daily Graphic.

"It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic." (The Story of the Malakand Field Force) by Winston L. Spencer Churchill, London: Thomas Nelson & Sons., 1916, p. 168)

From 1896 to 1897 Churchill served as a soldier and journalist in India, and wrote the basis for The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898). "Writing is an adventure," Churchill once said. "To begin with, it is a toy and amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase it that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public." (Winston Churchill, His Wit and Wisdom: Selections from His Works and Speeches, introduction by Jack House, London and Glasgow: Collins, 1965, p. 116) His only work of fiction was Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania (1900).

In 1898 Churchill fought at the battle of Omdurman in Sudan, depicting his experiences in The River War (1899). Defending imperialist aggression, he later boasted of having shot at least three "savages." Churchill's several books dealing with his early career include My African Journey (1908) and My Early Life. Churchill resigned his commission in 1899, and was assigned to cover the Boer War for the London Morning Post. His adventures, capture by the Boers, and a daring escape, made Churchill celebrity and hero on his return to England in 1900. During this period, he developed a lifelong taste for whisky.

In 1900 Churchill was first elected to Parliament. He switched from conservatives to Liberal Party in 1904. In 1908 he married Clementine Ogilvy Hozier, with whom he had one son and three daughters. This relationship brought much happiness and security throughout Churchill's lifetime. Occasionally she read his speeches beforehand.  Between 1906 and 1911 Churchill served in various governmental posts, and was appointed lord of the admiralty in 1911. As home secretary (1910-11) he used troops against strikers in South Wales.

After the outbreak of First World War Churchill supported the Dardannelles Campaign, an operation against the Turks. He had encouraged the development of such material as tank, and was generally credited with the British Fleet's preparedness in August 1914. But abortive expeditions to Antwerp and Gallipoli and the failed action at the Dardanelles did great harm to Churchill reputation and career. Aubrey Herbert, the future humorist, lawyer and parlamentarian, who served in the armed forces in Gallipoli, wrote in his diary that "Winston's name fills everyone with rage. Roman emperors killed slaves to make themselves popular, he is killing free men to make himself famous." (quoted in A Peace To End All Peace: The Fall Of The Ottoman Empire And The Creation Of The Middle East by David Fromkin, New York: Henry Hold and Company, 1989, p. 160)

Reduced in 1915 to minor office as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Churchill resigned. When he left the Admiralty, Lord Kitchener was the only one of his colleagues who formally visited him. Churchill rejoined the Army, and rose to the rank of colonel. In 1917 he was appointed Lloyd George's minister of munition, subsequently becoming the state secretary for war and air (1918-21), and colonial secretary (1921-22). During the postwar years he was active in support of the Whites (anti-Bolsheviks) in Russia.

At the election of 1922 Churchill was defeated as an Anti-Socialist. A rabid anti-Bolshevik, he further alienated critics by a third abortive military expedition – to help the White Russians on the Murman Coast. He left Parliament in 1922, and returned to the House as a Conservative. From this period he is remembered for his role as chancellor of the exchequer (1924-29) for the part he played in defeating the General strike of 1926 as an opponent of organized labour when the latter came into direct conflict with the principle of public order and government. In 1923 Lord Alfred Douglas accused Churchill of having arranged the wartime death of Lord Kitchener. Douglas's source was a bogus captain who had been certified as a lunatic. Much later he addressed a sonnet to Winston Churchill. False news annoyed Churchill but also BBC – he saw it as a rival to his own British Gazette, edited from his official address at Downing Street.

"He is about to be struck down. A dark hand, gloved at first in folly, now intervenes. Exit Czar. Deliver him and all he loved to wounds and death. Belittle his efforts, asperse his conduct, insult his memory; but pause then to tell us who else was found capable. Who or what could guide the Russian State? Men gifted and daring; men ambitious and fierce; spirits audacious and commanding—of these there was no lack. But none could answer the few plain questions on which the life and fame of Russia turned. With victory in her grasp she fell upon the earth, devoured alive, like Herod of old, by worms. But not in vain her valiant deeds. The giant mortally stricken had just time, with dying strength, to pass the torch eastward across the ocean to a new Titan long sunk in doubt who now arose and began ponderously to arm. The Russian Empire fell on March 16; on April 6 the United States entered the war." (The World Crisis: 1911-1918: Part I, London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1927, p. 225)

Out of office, Churchill began writing The World Crisis, which appeared in 6 volumes (1923-31). The work was attacked by the eminent poet and critic Herbert Read. He described Churchill prose as falsely eloquent: "it is one of the many pits into which a writer may fall if his conception of 'fine writing' is not supported by an inner structure of fine thinking. Here the images are stale, the metaphors violent. The whole passage exhales a false dramatic atmosphere, descending to a childish use of the very rubrics of drama with 'Exit Czar'. There is a volley of rhetorical imperatives, followed by an inevitable ironic question. The a volley of epithets, high-sounding and redundant. Then the simile of Herod's worms, too familiar to produce the calculated shudder." (English Prose Style by Herbert Read, London: G. Bell and Sons, 1928, pp. 171-172) In 1924 Churchill was elected to Parliament, and appointed chancellor of the Exchequer. Churchill's defense of the gold was criticized by the economist John Maynard Keynes, who foresaw that such policy would drop coal prices significantly. It lead to conditions which eventually provoked the general strike of 1926. Later, during World War II, Keynes was one of Churchill's economic advisers.

"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." (BBC radio broadcast, October 1, 1939)

After Conservative defeat in 1929, Churchill was again out of office. His absence from government lasted a decade. During this time he wrote a four-volume biography of his ancestor, Marlborough: His Life and Times (1933-1938). In 1931 he refused to see Gandhi, who had traveled to London to participate in the Second Round table Conference. Committed to the British Raj, he regarded Gandhi as a "malignant subversive fanatic" and "a thoroughly evil force."

While on a lecture tour in the Unites States Churchill  was knocked down by a car on Fifth Avenue in New York. A few years after the Nazis had seized power in Germany, he wrote in an article entitled 'Hitler and His Choice,' "We have only to read Hitler's book, Mein Kampf, to see . . . against whom the anger of rearmed Germany may be turned."

With the outbreak of World War II Churchill was appointed first lord of the Admiralty. On May 10, 1940, he became Prime Minister. Addressing the Parliament and the nation, he promised nothing but "blood, toil, tears and sweat." From July 1940, he held a number of his cabinet meetings in the war rooms deep under Whitehall, occasionally sleeping there. However, it was not until 1943 when a direct telephone link was established in the bunker connecting it to the White House. In a letter from 1940, Clementine adviced her husband to use his power wisely, kindly, and calmly: "Besides you won't get the best results by irascibility & rudeness. . . ." Churchill had difficulties to tolerate Charles de Gaulle, and he told to a friend: "Of all the crosses I have to bear, the heaviest is the Cross of Lorraine."

"We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France and on the seas and oceans; we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender . . .  " (Speech before Commons, June 4, 1940) The nation's determination to win the war was greatly strengthened by Churchill's radio speeches. In 2001, some sixty years later, President George W. Bush used an adaptation of these words in his speeches after a terrorist attack against World Trade Center on September 11.

Churchill's strategic misjudgment was blamed for the wartime success of Germany in Africa, Norway, and the Aegean. Moreover, his indifference toward India led to the Great Bengal famine of 1943, which killed millions of people. In November 1943 Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met in Teheran. At the meeting Churchill presented Stalin with a sword of honor for the people of Stalingrad. The Yalta Conference with Roosevelt and Stalin in February 1945 resulted in the dissection of Europe into opposing political jurisdictions and Stalin  became the real winner of the war.

In between his pressing duties Churchill also had time to support the idea of C. K. Ogden for an international language, Basic English. "It would certainly be a grand convenience for us all to be able to move freely about the world – as we shall be able to do more freely than ever before as the science of the world develops – be able to move freely about the world, and be able to find everywhere a medium, albeit primitive, of intercourse and understanding." ('The Gift of a Common Tongue,' September 6, 1943, Harvard; International Churchill Society, https://winstonchurchill.org/. Accessed 1 July 2025) Churchill, who never nursed his physique, was relatively healthy in the early period of the war, in spite of his smoking and drinking, but in 1943 and 1944 he suffered pneumonia; also his long, official meals with Stalin, which could take four-five hours, gave him stomach pains.

On 8 May Churchill announced the unconditional surrender of Germany. Though he emerged from WW II as a national hero, he was out of the office for several years. His Conservative party was defeated by the Labour party in the 1945 election. Churchill contributed to his downfall with his notorious 'Gestapo speech,' in which he said that no Socialist government could afford to allow "free, sharp or violently worded expression of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance." Churchill himself believed that the army voted him out of power. Alone among Western leaders, he was in the summer of 1945 prepared to examine a pre-emptive stike against Soviet forces. Codenamed as Operation 'Unthinkable' by Churchill himself, it was drawn up by the British Armed Forces' Joint Planning Staff. It is unclear  whether Stalin knew details of this top secret plan or not, but many Soviet spies were operating during the war in the very heart of Whitehall, among them Kim Philby, head of the anti-Soviet unit of MI6.

Still a towering figure among his contemporaries, Churchill  continued as Opposition leader in the House of Commons: against Indian independence, and in favor of the United Nations, a unified Europe, and manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. He also remained active as a political thinker. A sign of the beginning of the Cold War was Churchill's famous 'Iron Curtain' speech at Fulton College, Missouri, in spring 1946: "A shadow has fallen upon the scene so lately lighted by the Allied victory. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." (Winston Churchill: Personal Accounts of the Great Leader at War by Michael Paterson, [Cincinnati, OH]: David & Charles, 2005, p. 306)

Churchill  once predicted (tongue-in-cheek) that history would treat him kindly because he himself would write it. His grand opus, The Second World War, appeared in six volumes (1948-54). This work, written with the help of researchers and ghostwriters, was received with mixed critics, praised for its grandeur, but Volume 2 (the period through 1941) was considered poorly arranged, and Volume 5 (through 1944) seemed to most critics a falling-off from earlier volumes.

"The quality of Churchill's volumes on the Second World War is that of his whole life. His world is built upon the primacy of public over private relationships, upon the supreme value of action, of the battle between simple good and simple evil, between life and death; but, above all, battle." (Isaiah Berlin in The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays, London: Pimlico, 1998, p. 610)

In 1951 Churchill became prime minister, and was knighted in 1953. Next year he was acclaimed by the Queen and Parliament as "the greatest living Briton". On the occasion of Churchill's 80th birthday, members of the House of Lords and House of Commons commissioned the modernist artist Graham Sutherland to paint his portrait. Churchill sat several times for Sutherland in Chartwell. After Churchill saw the life-size portrait of himself he said it made him look "half-witted". The work has disappeared. It is generally thought that his wife Clementine burned it. When Sutherland died in 1980, two preparatory studies and sketches were found in his studio.

Although Churchill did not take up painting as a hobby until he was forty years old, he  produced over 500 canvases. He painted for pleasure and to have peace of mind, saying, "If it weren't for painting I couldn't live; I couldn't bear the strain of things." Walter Sickert was one of several artist Churchill became friendly with in the 1920s.  Sickert taught Churchill the advantage of painting from photographs. They also made portraits of each other, but landscapes and seascapes, not portraits, were Churchill's favorite subjects. He either painted from nature with great rapidity or locked himself in his studio at Chartwell and worked from sketches and photographs. The only picture he is believed to have completed during World War II, 'The Tower of Katoubiaa Mosque' (1943), he gave to President Franklin Roosevelt. Churchill's 1948 Painting as Pastimewas an instant success and sold more than any of his post-war single volume books. He approached painting a picture in a manner someone waging a war. "In all battles two things are usually required of the Commander-in-Chief: to make a good plan for his army and, secondly, to keep a strong reserve. Both these are also obligary upon the painter."  (On Painting as a Pastime, New York: Cornerstone Library, 1965, p. 20) Churchill did not consider himself as a "great painter."

Churchill's efforts to bring an end to the first phase of the Cold War by a summit conference between himself, Eisenhower and Stalin (1952-55) turned out to be fruitless. He resigned from the prime minister's office in 1955 and was succeeded by Anthony Eden. A few year earlier, he had suffered a paralytic stroke, and Lord Moran, his physician, gave him some stimulant, perhaps amphetamine. It is possible that Churchill took drugs, "Dr. Moran's green pills", before important political meetings. In general, his diet was not healthy – he was overweight, he avoided any physical exercise whatsoever, and his servants helped him to dress and undress.

After retirement  Churchill  published the monumental A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956-58), which mostly dealt with politics and war. At Westerham, Kent, Churchill concentrated in painting, masonry, and horse racing. He frequently dictated letters to his secretaries half-dressed and often roamed around his rooms at Chartwell nude when he awoke. During this last period of his life, when he was not in the center of political power, he had bouts of depression.

"I am ready to meet my Maker," Churchill said on his 75th birthday. "Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter." Winston Churchill died on January 24, 1965, after suffering cerebral thrombosis. It has been said that Churchill's favorite cat, named Jock, was lying on his bed when he died. Jock died nine years later. Historians have been critical of Churchill's actions and relationships with world leaders. The opening of British government files in the 1980s brought new material into daylight, but it is beyond dispute that Sir Winston Churchill was among the greatest men of his time.

For further reading: Winston Churchill as I Knew Him by Violet Bonham-Carter (1965); Winston S. Churchill by R.S. Churchill and Martin Gilbert (1966-1988); Churchill: A Life by Martin Gilbert (1967); The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 by William Manchester (1983); Winston Churchill: A Reference Guide by Eric Steinbaugh (1985); The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940 by William Manchester  (1988);  Churchill: The End of Glory: A Political Biography by John Charmley (1993); Churchill and Roosevelt at War by Keith Sainsbury (1994); Churchill: The Unruly Giant by Norman Rose (1995); In Search of Churchill: A Historian's Journey by Martin Gilbert (1995); Churchill and Hitler: In Victory and Defeat by John Strawson (1998); Churchill and the Soviet Union by David Carlton (2000); Churchill Wanted Dead or Alive by Celia Sandys (2000); Churchill: A Biography by Roy Jenkins (2001); Winston Churchill: Personal Accounts of the Great Leader at War by Michael Paterson (2005); Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II by Madhusree Mukerjee (2011); The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 by William Manchester & Paul Reid  (2013); Operation Unthinkable: The Third World War: British Plans to Attack the Soviet Empire 1945 by Jonathan Walker (2013; Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill by Michael Shelden (2013); Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks (2017); Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts (2018); Winston Churchill: A Life in the News by Richard Toye (2020); Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes by Tariq Ali (2022); Blood, Mud, and Oil Paint: The Remarkable Year that Made Winston Churchill by J. Furman Daniel III. (2024); The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch (2025); Churchill, Master of Language: An Encyclopedia of His Greatest Words by Richard M. Langworth (2025).  Phrases and slogans made well-known by Churchill: "I have nothing to offer but blood, tears, and sweat" (May 13, 1940) - "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." (August 20, 1940) - "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent". (Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, U.S., on March 5, 1946).  About the Nobel Prize for Literature: "He got [the Nobel Prize] for those passionate utterances which were the very stuff of human courage and defiance. . . . Churchill's poetry of the fact changed history." William Golding, 'Churchill, Winston,' in Nobel Prize Winners: An H. W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary, edited by Tyler Wasson, New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1987, p. 205.  Suom.: Churchillilta on suomennettu myös puhekokoelmat Sotakronikka. [1], Valikoima Englannin pääministerin puheita sotavuosilta 1939-43, Porvoo: WSOY, 1946 ja Sotakronikka. 2, Valikoima Englannin pääministerin puheita sotavuosilta 1944-45, Porvoo: WSOY, 1948

Selected works:

• The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War, 1898
• The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan, 1899 (edited by F. Rhodes; illustrated by Angus McNeill)
• Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania, 1900
  - Kansa nousee (suom. Toivo Vallenius, 1916)
• London to Ladysmith via Pretoria, 1900
• Ian Hamilton's March: Together with Extracts from the Diary of Lieutenant H. Frankland, 1900
• Mr. Brodrick’s Army, 1903
• Lord Randolph Churchill, 1906
• For Free Trade, 1906
  
• My African Journey, 1908
• Liberalism and the Social Problem, 1909
• The People’s Rights, 1909
• Irish Home Rule, 1912 (A speech delivered at Belfast on February 8th, 1912)
  
• The World Crisis, 1911-1918, 1923-31 (6 vols.)
• Shall We Commit Suicide?, 1924
  
• The World Crisis: The Aftermath, 1929
  - Maailmansodan jälkisato (suom. Uuno Kahma, 1916)
• My Early Life: A Roving Commission, 1930
  - Nuoruuteni (suom. Erkki Arni, 1954)
• India, 1931
• The Unknown War: The Eastern Front, 1931
• Thoughts and Adventures, 1932 (US title: Amid These Storms: Thoughts and Adventures, 1932)
  
• The Great War, 1933-34 (3 vols.)
• Great Contemporaries, 1937
• Arms and the Covenant: Speeches by Winston S. Churchill, 1938 (compiled by Randolph S. Churchill)
• While England Slept: A Survey of World Affairs, 1932-1938, 1938 (with a preface and notes by Randolph S. Churchill)
• Marlborough: His Life and Times, 1933-38
• Step by Step 1936-1939, 1939
• Britain's Strength, 1940 (Speech by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, in the House of Commons, August 20, 1940)
• Into Battle, 1941 (US title: Blood Sweat and Tears, 1941; with a preface and notes by Randolph S. Churchill, M.P.)
  
• On Human Rights, 1941
• The Unrelenting Struggle, 1942
• The End of the Beginning: War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill, 1943 (compiled by Charles Eade) 
• Onwards to Victory: War Speeches, 1943, 1944 (compiled by Charles Eade) 
• The Dawn of Liberation: War Speeches, 1945 (compiled by Charles Eade) 
• Into Battle, 1945
• Winston Churchill’s Secret Sessions Speeches, 1946  (compiled by Charles Eade) 
• Victory: War Speeches, 1946 (compiled by Charles Eade)
• War Speeches 1940-1945, 1946
  
• Painting as a Pastime, 1948
  - Maalaus ajanvietteenä (suom. Leena-Kaisa Laitakari, 1950)
• The Sinews of Peace, 1948 (ed. by Randolph S. Churchill)
  
• Maxims and Reflections, 1948 (arranged and provided with an introd. by Colin Coote, and selected by him in collaboration with Denzil Batchelor)
  
• The Second World War, 1948-53 (6 vols.)
• Europe Unite, 1950 (speeches; edited by Randolph S. Churchill)
• In the Balance: Speeches 1949 and 1950, 1951 (edited by Randolph S. Churchill)
• The War Speeches 1939-1945, 1952
  
• Stemming the Tide, 1953
• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, 1956-58 (4 vols.)
• The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953-1959, 1961 (edited by Randolph S. Churchill)
• Heroes of History, 1968
• The Roar of the Lion, 1969
• Young Winston's Wars: The Original Despatches of Winston S. Churchill War Correspondent, 1897-1900, 1972 (ed. Frederick Woods)
• Immortal Jester: A Treasury of the Great Good Humour of Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, 1973 (compiled by Leslie Frewin)
• The Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill, 1973-74 (34 vols.; Centenary limited ed.)
• If I Live My Life Again, 1974
• Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963, 1974 (8 vols., ed. Robert Rhodes James)
• The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill, 1976 (4 vols., ed. Michael Wolff)
• Churchill & Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence, 1984 (3 vols., edited with commentary by Warren F. Kimball)
• The Churchill-Eisenhower Correspondence 1953-1955, 1990 (ed. Peter G. Boyle)
• The Churchill War Papers: At the Admiralty, September 1939 - May 1940, 1993 (ed. Martin Gilbert)
• The Churchill War Papers: Never Surrender, Volume 2 May 1940-December 1940, 1995 (ed. Martin Gilbert)
• The Churchill War Papers: The Ever Widening War Vol 3: 1941,  2001 (ed. Martin Gilbert)
• Winston and Archie: The Letters of Sir Archibald Sinclair and Winston S. Churchill 1915-1960, 2005 (edited by Ian Hunter)
• Thoughts and Adventures: Churchill Reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Fying, and the Future, 2009 (edited by James W. Muller with Paul H. Courtenay and Alana L. Barton)
• The Quotable Winston Churchill, 2009 (compiled and edited by Carol Lea Mueller)
• The Definitive Wit of Winston Churchill, 2009 (edited by Richard M. Langworth)
  
• The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill, 2011 (rev. ed., compiled, edited, and introduced by Dominique Enright)
  
• Great Contemporaries: Churchill Reflects on FDR, Hitler, Kipling, Chaplin, Balfour, and Other Giants of His Age, 2012 (edited by James W. Muller with Paul H. Courtenay and Erica L. Chenoweth)
  
• Churchill: The Power of Words: His Remarkable Life Recounted Through His Writings and Speeches: 200 Readings, 2012 (selected, edited and introduced by Martin Gilbert)
• Great Contemporaries: Churchill Reflects on FDR, Hitler, Kipling, Chaplin, Balfour, and Other Giants of His Age, 2024 (edited by James W. Muller)
  
• My Early Life: A Roving Commission, 2024 (St. Augustine's Press; James W. Muller)
  
• Thoughts and Adventures: Churchill Reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Flying, and the Future, 2024 (edited by James W. Muller)