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Once and for all, by every definition from the linguistic to the clinical, Winston Churchill was not an alcoholic, nor even an excessive alcohol consumer.

From an vanished age of "loyal opposition" came a remarkable tribute to Churchill from longtime Labour opponent and successor, Clement Attlee.

Churchill on Fisher: “I am glad we were friends in the end.” Was his love for the admiral an error of judgment? Barry Gough has the answers.

From the tank to radar, Churchill’s keen interest in technology prompted key developments in what he knew to be “wars of science,” where victory often depended on the laboratory.

“There are many valuable accounts of Churchill’s nuclear thinking during his second premiership, notably in books by Klaus Larres and Peter Hennessey. But, for me, the account Ruane gives here is outstanding for the breadth of its scholarship, the richness of its narrative and the acuity of its judgements.”

Churchill, it appears, took the view that the mind is not infinitely expandable. Time and again, he exhibited vast gaps in economic and financial knowledge. His salvation was that he studied when he had to, and kept close knowledgeable friends to fill in the gaps. When it mattered, he sought out what he needed to know.

Among the important figures of the 20th century, Churchill and Einstein competed with each other for the distinction of being labeled “Person of the Century” by Time magazine. At first sight they seemed different in almost all respects. Yet to some extent they had similar personalities and over time their thinking developed in not entirely different ways. They also liked each other—from the time they first met in 1933 at Chartwell, Churchill’s country estate.

Flying Peril: The threat of a German air force superior to Britain’s, denied for years by British leaders, proved only too true. This fifth episode of “The Wilderness Years” introduces two of the people who, at the risk of their careers, provided Churchill with secret information on German rearmament.

Despite political differences, Beaverbrook and Churchill enjoyed a long friendship that survived its share of ups and downs. “Some people take drugs,” Churchill said. “I take Max.”

In Munich on 30 August 1932, six months before Hitler took power in Germany, Winston Churchill came as close as he ever would to meeting Hitler face to face, amid sobering scenes of marching, chanting brownshirts singing Die Horst Wessel Lied.

The book is clearly inspired by the heartfelt faith of the two authors and the sincerity of their desire to explore the life of a 20th century hero as viewed through the lens of God’s work and His word as revealed in the Bible.

Mario Contasino will forever be connected with the story of an event that almost altered history. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. once asked: “Would the next two decades have been the same had the automobile killed Winston Churchill in 1931 and the bullet killed Franklin Roosevelt in 1933?"