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The protracted Atlantic battle hinged on desperate choices between defense and taking the fight to the enemy. The crux came in 1943.

Confronted with the seeming impossible in the Middle East, Wavell acquitted himself well and was promoted as often as he was sacked.

Lifetime friend and trusted collaborator, Louis Spears knew France and the French as few Britons, serving faithfully in peace and war.

“This essay on importance of relations with Stalin in shaping the Churchill-Roosevelt relationship, is a brief historical gem.” —Nigel Lawson

Savrola expresses the statesman’s prudence to restore civic liberty—constitutionally if possible: “All my philosophy,” he wrote, “is put into the mouth of the hero.”

Did Churchill turn somersaults over the Soviets? Yes and with good reason. We understand events better through good historians, and hindsight.

Young Winston 12 decades ago—and a speculation about just how rough his escape became at South Africa’s Witbank colliery.

On Monarchy: “It is natural for Parliaments to talk and for the Crown to shine…. We are never likely to run short of Ministers who can talk.”

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.”

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…”

“Politics for Churchill, if he is ever to fulfill his promise, must have everything to do with the salvation of mankind.” —Harold Begbie