One of the biggest electoral shocks in British history came in 1945, in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Winston Churchill, having led the country to victory, confidently expected his ...
LONDON (AP) — Britain's upcoming general election is widely expected to lead to a change of government for the first time in 14 years. Many analysts believe it will be one of the country's most ...
Yet that extraordinary phenomenon becomes far more explicable when one learns about the attributes of the man who defeated Churchill in that election—and indeed, in the subsequent one, too: Clement ...
Oxford University Press, $39.95, 670 pages, illustrated It is not easy for any leader of a nation to follow one whose greatness is universally acknowledged and who has a personality to match. In a ...
On December 10, 1948, Winston Churchill rose to address Parliament. As Leader of the Opposition, he questioned why Clement Attlee’s Labour Government in general and of its Foreign Secretary, Ernest ...
Image: Darkest Hour promotional poster, Working Title. Reproduced under Fair Use. Winston Churchill is everywhere at the moment. It is as if there are only two narratives about Britain’s past: the ...
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