Churchill. Family at the Heart of History: From the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill. Mary Lovell

The true story of Winston Churchill's life began long before he was born...
From John Marlborough, the brilliant general, favorite of the royal court and the cause of numerous adulteries and scandals, to generations of heroes and profligates, strategists and gamblers, people of extraordinary ambition and no less vanity - the Churchill clan has been at the epicenter of events for centuries. And it was from this motley, controversial dynasty that the man who became a symbol of British invincibility at the darkest moment of the 20th century finally emerged.

Mary S. Lovell's fascinating family saga tells of triumphant military and political careers, the construction of grand estates, family tragedies and high-profile scandals. It includes both Winston's happy marriage to Clementine Hozier and the disastrous alliances of other family members, which ended in betrayals, annulments, depressions and high-profile social dramas. This is a story of ambition, scandal, love and the struggle for power that ultimately gave the world Winston Churchill.