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The following year The Times Literary Supplement (3 August 1951) commented on this volume that "as a chronicler of war, Mr Churchill has, hitherto, been disappointing" but The Hinge of Fate was "a breathtaking book" and that in its pages Churchill was "a romantic, as immortally young as the hero of Treasure Island" but had "massive common sense ...
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill [a] (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 (during the Second World War) and again from 1951 to 1955.
Winston Churchill was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty on 3 September 1939, the day that the United Kingdom declared war on Nazi Germany. He succeeded Neville Chamberlain as prime minister on 10 May 1940 and held the post until 26 July 1945.
In the late 1940s, Churchill wrote and published six volumes of World War II memoirs. The series is entitled The Second World War and added his personal thoughts, beliefs and experiences to the historical record as he interpreted it. Churchill traded the literary rights to his books in return for double the salary he made as Prime Minister.
Churchill had used a similar phrase at the time, though at the time he was referring specifically to the situation of France rather than to the United Kingdom. In his 'finest hour' speech , on 16 June 1940, Churchill described the collapse of France following the German invasion as "the darkest hour in French history"; [ 2 ] he had used similar ...
Toye, Richard, ed. Winston Churchill: Politics, Strategy, and Statecraft (2017). essays by scholars. Toye, Richard. The roar of the lion: the untold story of Churchill's World War II speeches (Oxford UP, 2013) online. Weidhom, Manfred. Sword and Pen: A Survey of the Writings of Sir Winston Churchill (U of New Mexico Press, 1974). Woods, Frederick.
Churchill's Folly: How Winston Churchill Created Iraq. Carroll and Graf, US (2004) Charmley, John (1993). Churchill, The End of Glory: A Political Biography. London: Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 978-0-15-117881-0. OCLC 440131865. Churchill, Randolph. Winston S. Churchill: Young Statesman. This is the second volume of the authorised biography which ...
Churchill was born on 10 October 1940 at Chequers, Buckinghamshire, England, five months after his grandfather became Prime Minister, a year into the Second World War.He was educated at Ludgrove, [2] Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford.