The world as we know it today owes its second chance to Winston Churchill and the United Kingdom. Without them, civilization would have been lost in the darkest hours of May 1940.

World War II ended on September 2, 1945, just a few months after Clement Attlee defeated Churchill in the election and became the new prime minister (although, notably, Germany's surrender had ...

Nigel Hamilton and Allen Packwood talked about the World War II leadership styles of President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The Roosevelt House Public Policy ...

Prague, 2 October 2005 (RFE/RL) -- The gathering at Maastricht on Saturday was the first meeting between the grandsons of the three World War II allied leaders.

Alan Watson talked about his book, [Churchill's Legacy: Two Speeches to Save the World]. His talk was part of a Westminster College commemoration the 70th anniversary of British Prime Minister ...

CHURCHILL: THE END OF GLORY John Charmley Harcourt Brace & Co. ! 742 pages. $34.95 As a historian whose prose was as grandiloquent as his oratory, Winston Churchill was confident of his place … ...

Winston Churchill would be ousted as British prime minister shortly after Nazi surrender. He would return to power for another term from 1951 to 1955 and be the last of the major World War II ...

Rather, it sees World War II as a truly “global event.” In that light, one thing becomes clear. Whatever else the Second World War was about, it was, on both sides, a war for empire.

The months that led to the end of World War IImake up one of the richest and most fascinating periods of 20th ... along with his portraits of Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt and Truman, are hugely ...