Books by Churchill

Books by Churchill number fifty-one individual works (eleven published posthumously) in eighty volumes (twenty-one posthumous). The list of books includes works edited, compiled or assembled by others, since the words in every case are Churchill’s. “A” numbers are those assigned by my Bibliography of the Writings of Sir Winston Churchill (2006). The dates are those of first publication.

Listed in chronological order are works generally considered to be books (rather than pamphlets or leaflets, the customary format for individual speeches). These include collections of speeches and derivative works from previously published books. The editors have provided links to discussions of certain titles by The Churchill Project.

Not included are individual or narrowly-focused speech collections bound as volumes, such as the Grabhorn or Overbrook Press wartime productions or the Danish Taler i Danmark.

Collections of correspondence with others, such as Churchill & Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence, are also absent. All of the foregoing are included in a far more extensive list of works by Churchill in my bibliography. —RIC

Soldier and parliamentarian, 1898-1910

A1 The Story of the Malakand Field Force 1897, 1898

A2 The River War (2 vols.), 1899

A3 Savrola (Churchill’s only novel), 1900

A4 London to Ladysmith via Pretoria, 1900

A8 Ian Hamilton’s March, 1900

A10 Mr. Brodrick’s Army, 1903¹

A17 Lord Randolph Churchill (2 vols.), 1906

A18 For Free Trade, 1906¹

A27 My African Journey, 1908

A29 Liberalism and the Social Problem, 1909¹

A31 The People’s Rights, 1910¹

Statesman and cabinet minister 1923-41

A69 The World Crisis (5 vols. in 6 parts), 1923-31

A91 My Early Life (A Roving Commission in USA), 1930

A92 India, 1931¹

A95 Thoughts and Adventures (Amid These Storms in USA), 1932²

A97 Marlborough: His Life and Times (4 vols., 6 vols. In USA), 1933-38

A105 Great Contemporaries, 1937²

A107 Arms and the Covenant (While England Slept in USA), 1938¹

A111 Step by Step 1936-1939, 1939²

A141 Blenheim (from Marlborough), 1941²

Finest hours, 1941-46

A142 Into Battle (Blood, Sweat, and Tears in USA and Canada), 1941¹

A172 The Unrelenting Struggle, 1942¹

A183 The End of the Beginning, 1943¹

A194 Onwards to Victory, 1944¹

A214 The Dawn of Liberation, 1945¹

A223 Victory, 1946¹

A224 War Speeches 1940-1945, 1946¹

A227 Secret Session Speeches, 1946¹

Postwar books, 1948-64

A240 The Second World War (6 vols.), 1948-53³

A241 The Sinews of Peace, 1948¹

A242 Painting as a Pastime, 1948²

A246 Europe Unite, 1950¹

A255 In the Balance, 1951¹

A263 The War Speeches (3 vols.), 1951-52¹

A264 Stemming the Tide: Speeches, 1953¹

A267 A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (4 vols.), 1956-58⁴

A272 The American Civil War, 1961²

A273 The Unwritten Alliance, 1961¹

A274 Frontiers and Wars, 1962²

A275 The Island Race, 1964²

Books published posthumously, 1968-2003

A278 Heroes of History, 1968²

A279 Joan of Arc, 1969²

A282 Young Winston’s Wars, 1972⁵

A283 If I Lived My Life Again, 1974²

A284 Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches 1897-1963 (8 vols.), 1974¹

A286 The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill (4 vols.), 1975²

A288 The Dream, 1987²

A290 Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat, 1989¹

A292 The Boer War, 1989⁶

A301 The Great Republic, 1999²

A303 Never Give In!, 2003¹

Endnotes

¹ Collections of speeches.

² Works derived from previous books, despatches and/or articles.

³ Individual volumes entitled The Gathering Storm, Their Finest Hour, The Grand Alliance, The Hinge of Fate, Closing the Ring and Triumph and Tragedy. The American edition of each volume preceded the British editions, both in the same year, except for Volume 6, which appeared in 1954.

⁴ Individual volumes entitled The Birth of Britain, The New World, The Age of Revolution and The Great Democracies.

⁵ Derived from war despatches; reprinted in 1992 as Winston S. Churchill War Correspondent 1895-1900.

⁶ Combined London to Ladysmith via Pretoria and Ian Hamilton’s March.