When Winston Churchill entered Parliament following the 1900 general election, he was 26, and already famous. He had reported on or served in no fewer than four bloody conflicts, in Cuba ...

Young Churchill, a 'Hero of the ... “I have faith in my star,” a young Winston Churchill wrote to his mother in 1897, ... and played a fighting role in freeing the men with whom he had been ...

Sir WINSTON CHURCHILL (Prime Minister, United Kingdom): And with the British Empire around us, we shall fight on, unconquerable, until the curse of Hitler is lifted from the brows of men.

By the time Winston Churchill was 24 years old, he’d already written three books, fought in four wars on three continents, run for Parliament and become the best-paid journalist in Great Britain.

Winston Churchill and George Orwell were very different men, ... Churchill had money and pedigree; the young Orwell lived on the street and raised his own vegetables during World War II.

Yet Winston Churchill did escape, and spun his exploits during the second Anglo-Boer war of 1899-1902 into a tale of derring-do that launched his political career. This improbable story reveals a ...

Winston Churchill and George Orwell lived on different sides of a vast divide. Churchill was a politician. Orwell was a journalist and novelist. Churchill had money and pedigree; the young Orwell ...

When you consider how many gut-wrenching decisions British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had to make during World War II — many of which involved sending young men to their deaths — the ...

Winston Churchill, right, was captured in an ambush during the Boer War and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp. He found prison intolerable because it kept him from winning glory on the battlefield ...