Understanding Churchill

Churchill's rep­u­ta­tion as a war­rior tends to obscure his efforts for peace, but from the time he was a young Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment, already pos­sessed of expe­ri­ence in war on three con­ti­nents, Churchill spoke of the fright­ful­ness of mod­ern war and strove to avoid it.