# Mr. Churchill's Profession ![rw-book-cover](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41JOACpBKZL._SL200_.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: [[Peter Clarke]] - Full Title: Mr. Churchill's Profession - Category: #books ## Highlights - His memoirs of World War I, published under the title The World Crisis, ran to five volumes. The book was tellingly described by Arthur Balfour, a colleague who knew him well, as ‘Winston’s brilliant Autobiography, disguised as a history of the universe’. ([Location 134](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B007N6JCXU&location=134)) - The authorised edition of his Collected Works runs to thirty-four volumes. ([Location 148](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B007N6JCXU&location=148)) - ‘The Declaration of Independence is not only an American document,’ Churchill declared. ‘It follows on the Magna Charta [sic] and the Bill of Rights as the third great title-deed on which the liberties of the English-speaking people are founded.’ ([Location 165](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B007N6JCXU&location=165))