Writing a biography of Sir Winston Churchill in this ... One of his valets noted at the height of the blitz in 1940 that Churchill smoked up to ten cigars a day, but those sent to him as gifts ...
Photo: Winston Churchill, photographed by Cecil Beaton, at 10 Downing Street, London, in 1940. (IWM MH 26392) The crises facing Churchill. A defiant Churchill's cabinet implodes over Hitler's ...
On 4 June 1940, as the Dunkirk evacuations drew to a close, Winston Churchill delivered a thrilling speech to the House of Commons. He looked back at the miraculous rescue of the British ...