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    Winston Churchill

    British statesman, soldier and writer

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  1. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and 1951 to 1955.

  2. Jul 27, 2024 · 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 ...

  3. Apr 3, 2014 · Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was a British politician, military officer and writer who served as the prime minister of Great Britain from 1940 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1955.

  4. Oct 27, 2009 · Winston Churchill, prime minister of Great Britain from 1940 to 1945, he led the country through World War II, and from 1951 to 1955.

  5. Jun 18, 2008 · About The Official Biography. WINSTON S. CHURCHILL by Randolph Churchill & Martin Gilbert. Churchill had long wished to write his father’s biography, and by the end of the 1950’s was making strong efforts to win his father’s confidence. In May 1960 Winston Churchill wrote to his son: ‘My dear Randolph, I have reflected carefully on what ...

  6. Sir Winston Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician and author, best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Churchill was famous for his stubborn resistance to Hitler during the darkest hours of the Second World War.

  7. Churchill: The End of Glory. A Political Biography (1993), a revisionist book that emphasizes his political weaknesses and mistakes down to 1945. He argues that that Churchill led Britain into bankruptcy, lost the British Empire, and opened the way for American world domination. See also online book review.

  8. We follow Churchill’s return to the premiership (1951-55), his last efforts to secure permanent peace, his resignation, his final words to his colleagues, his declining years, and his death—seventy years almost to the hour of his father’s passing in 1895.

  9. Jul 27, 2024 · British Prime Minister Winston Churchill addressing a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Dec. 26, 1941, declaring that the United States and Britain will “never cease to persevere” against the Japanese empire.

  10. The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965), the son of Lord Randolph Churchill and his American wife Jennie Jerome, was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst. After a brief but eventful career in the army, he became a Conservative Member of Parliament in 1900.

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