When Winston Churchill entered Parliament following the 1900 general election, he was 26, and already famous. He had reported on or served in no fewer than four bloody conflicts, in Cuba, Afghanistan, ...
His name personifies leadership. Even today, more than four decades after his death, he still sets the benchmark for politicians in a time of crisis. He is Sir Winston Churchill. Although one of ...
CHURCHILL: Walking With Destiny. By Andrew Roberts. Viking. 982 pages. $40. Taking on a nearly 1,000-page biography of Winston Spencer Churchill is apt to leave most readers feeling as if their lives ...
Throughout his 60 years in politics, Winston Churchill played an enormous part in the direction of the British Empire, even though his career, mirroring his manic depression, ran fantastically high ...
Earlier this year, retired astronaut Scott Kelly posted a harmless tweet quoting Winston Churchill’s famous line, “In victory, magnanimity.” Left-wing Twitter went berserk, and Kelly felt obliged to ...
One of the world's great historians has written a biography of the man who is one of the immense figures of the last century. And perhaps surprisingly, the book is short. Just 192 pages. It is pungent ...
Unicorn Press will reprint The Happy Warrior: The Life Story of Sir Winston Churchill. "In the 1950s, the comic embarked on an ambitious series chronicling the life of some of Britain's most famous ...
Martin Gilbert, Winston Churchill’s official biographer and a leading historian of the Holocaust, died Tuesday in London after a lengthy illness. He was 78. British senior civil servant John Chilcot ...
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874–1965), a British statesman and artist, was born in Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England, into an aristocratic family as the son of Lord Randolph Churchill ...
Winston Churchill had an affinity for wine — and a passion for Champagne. To what degree? He spent about £1,160 a year on booze purchases between 1908 and 1914, according to the new biography “No More ...
Biographies are often eye-rolling in a variety of negative ways, but not this superb biography about Clementine Churchill, wife of Winston Churchill, prime minister of the United Kingdome from 1940 to ...
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