Winston Churchill: legend, leader, but what was he really like? Discover the surprising, complex story behind Britain's ...

Step inside the untold story of Winston Churchill - the legendary war leader whose courage and complexity shaped history.

Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him; By David Reynolds; Basic Books; 464 pp., $32.50 Meant as a successor volume of sorts to Churchill’s own 1937 work, Great Contemporaries, ...

CAMBRIDGE, England — In more than 1 million pieces of paper, contained in some 2,500 boxes, locked behind a 6-inch-thick steel door, lies one of the greatest stories ever told. This is where Britain’s ...

The prime minister oversaw the war from a London bunker (the Cabinet War Rooms, above, adjacent to the new Churchill Museum) and from the field. In 1909, at age 35, he had already expressed an ardent ...

Professor John Charmley discusses whether Churchill has rewritten the history books to portray himself as a foreign policy visionary during the time of Appeasement. 'History will judge us kindly', ...

Winston Churchill, whose resolute leadership and combative spirit rallied Britain when it stood against Nazi Germany in some of the darkest days of World War II, was born in Oxfordshire, England, on ...

Technically, of course, removing Churchill from a banknote would not erase him from history. Even if his reputation is at ...

It is a regrettable fact of secular history that its key inflection points are wars. We might wish it were otherwise, but it isn't and so we ignore the study of war and its relation to political ...

Winston Churchill has been called the Greatest Briton of all time, and he is certainly one of the most significant figures of the 20th century. While many Americans realize that he helped win World ...