In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War David Reynolds This acclaimed account offers a compelling new insight into our Greatest Briton: as the statesman who changed the course of history, and as the writer who ensured his place in it with his epic bestselling memories, The Second World War. David Reynolds opens our eyes to the research 'syndicate' on whom Churchill depended and the brilliant financial deals that made his fortune. We see how his memoirs were censored by Whitehall to conceal secrets such as the Bletchley Park codebreakers and how Churchill himself censored them to avoid offending world leaders such as Tito and de Gaulle. We watch him nail the appeasers into a literary coffin, and write himself magnificently into history.