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1 day ago · Winston Churchill (born November 30, 1874, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England—died January 24, 1965, London) was a British statesman, orator, and author who as prime minister (1940–45, 1951–55) rallied the British people during World War II and led his country from the brink of defeat to victory. After a sensational rise to prominence ...
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23 hours ago · Winston Churchill. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill [a] (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, he was a Member of ...
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Apr 29, 2024 · The Admiralty figure for the total number evacuated from Dunkirk was 338,226. This was an extraordinary escape, and it allowed Britain to continue the war. As Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965) noted on 4 June, "there was a victory inside this deliverance" (Dear, 243).
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3 days ago · The Bengal famine of 1943 was an anthropogenic famine in the Bengal province of British India (present-day Bangladesh, West Bengal and eastern India) during World War II.An estimated 0.8–3.8 million people died, in the Bengal region (present-day Bangladesh and West Bengal), from starvation, malaria and other diseases aggravated by malnutrition, population displacement, unsanitary conditions ...
May 8, 2024 · Churchill and the scientists: Towards a new world. In the first of a new series to celebrate the 150th birthday of Winston Churchill, Taylor Downing examines his role in some of the incredible technological advances made during World War I. The First World War is often seen as a conflict dominated by mud, barbed wire, and trenches, where men ...
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2 days ago · Half the Battle. Civilian Morale in Britain during the Second World War. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2002, ISBN: 719058937X; 288pp.; Price: £49.99. Dr John Baxendale, review of Half the Battle. Civilian Morale in Britain during the Second World War, (review no. 332) For a long time after 1945, as Basil Fawlty famously discovered ...
May 19, 2024 · Given that the shelves of those historians who specialise in the origins of the Second World War are figuratively groaning under the weight of works covering the topic of appeasement, it may come as a surprise to some when reading the preface to Appeasing Hitler that “while books on the Second World War have multiplied over the past 20 years, the build-up and causes of that catastrophe have ...
