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Alan Allport offers a very fine synthesis of new aspects without repetition, but Churchill’s long shadow still hovers over WW2.

Lady Violet: “He had no doubts about his star. He felt that he had been preserved through many perils in order to fulfil its purpose.”

“Springing ahead” to Daylight Time, we recall Churchill’s support of Willett, whose “vision and driving power” led to this “great reform.”

A forensic examination and point-by-point of a Cambridge University panel on Churchill, race, the British Empire and the Second World War.

Violet Asquith, 1906: “I found myself sitting next to this young man who seemed to me quite different from any other young man I had ever met…”

"All Mr. Churchill needs is the direction in his life of a great idea. He is a Saul on the way to Damascus. Let him swing clean away from that road to destruction and he might well become Paul on his way to immortality. This is to say, that to be saved from himself. Mr. Churchill must be carried away by enthusiasm for some great ideal." —Harold Begbie, 1921

In time for the 75th anniversary of Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech, Nancy Carver describes and memorializes that moment from an American perspective.

Churchill, Woolton wrote privately, “doesn’t seem to understand that nobody else wants rationing any more than he does...”

Sinclair aging: “He did so much and worried so greatly on account of the boys who lost their lives…no wonder that he is now a war casualty.”

Hopkins to Churchill, 1942: “‘Where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God’…Even to the end.”

Paul Rafferty has followed Churchill’s footsteps through his favorite landscapes in an elegant documentary that has no peer in its field.

Savrola voices Churchill’s fundamental political and ethical principles at the very moment when he settled on them for the rest of his life.