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Churchill rose from the House of Commons to become Prime Minister and is considered the greatest British leader of the 20th Century.

Winston Churchill was a British politician and is best known for being the Prime Minister of Britain during World War Two.

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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill is, undoubtedly, one of the most influential people of the century. His nonconformist ways earned him admiration and respect.

The Allied endeavor to secure the Dardanelles and capture Constantinople resulted in huge casualty counts and the ultimate withdrawal from the Gallipoli peninsula.

When Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime had begun the process of German rearmament they had been almost as keen to build U-boats again as military aircraft, and tanks.

Hitler's refusal to withdraw from Poland gave Britain's Government no option but to declare war against Germany 70 years ago. It was the start of six years of conflict.

The second Earl Grey was one of England's great reforming Prime Ministers during the early years of the nineteenth century.

The use and abuse of history is best seen in the proliferation of conspiracy theories offering tantalizing answers to the unsolved questions of history.

British naval officer Lord Louis Mountbatten accepted the Japanese surrender during World War II. He was the last Viceroy of India, and also mentor to Prince Charles.

Guide to the characters and story of H.M.S. Pinafore, an operetta by the English comic opera team Gilbert & Sullivan.

It is unexpected to find a great political leader and power-broker with a creative flair. British war-time Prime Minister Winston Churchill was such a man.

The concept behind the battlecruiser was simple. Faster than anything that can outgun them. Bigger guns than anything that can outrun them. Great - in theory.

Britain badly under-estimated the emerging new state of Turkey during World War One. Winston Churchill made three great blunders in pursuing a risky Dardanelles Campaign.

Churchill was part-American, was born in a cloakroom, suffered a childhood lisp and was a terrible scholar. The war leader could, however, do a good gorilla imitation.

Churchill appeared to be the man for his times, destined for leadership, but he was a product of his times, with a romantic Victorian notion of war as a great adventure.