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Hace 10 horas · Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill [a] (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955.
Hace 3 días · The Whigs used George's death to their own advantage. The leadership of the Admiralty was unpopular among the Whig leaders, who had blamed Prince George and his deputy George Churchill (who was Marlborough's brother) for mismanagement of the navy.
- 8 March 1702 – 1 August 1714
- Anne Hyde
Hace 3 días · Although he was one of Churchill's closest confidants, his role in wartime was restricted because Churchill himself conducted the most important negotiations, those with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, but Eden served loyally as Churchill's lieutenant.
Hace 2 días · Lloyd George's visit to Hitler at the Berghof in 1936 was condemned by Churchill as a monumental misjudgement, the Welshman's intuitive grasp had failed him. Yet Lentin asks, 'Who fooled whom in this Alpine encounter?' (p99) and he suggests that the two men shared many characteristics and attributes of showmanship and statecraft.
Hace 4 días · Winston Churchill is one of the most biographed figures in modern history, held up as an orator and wartime strategist that turned the tide against Hitler an...
Hace 1 día · Given that the shelves of those historians who specialise in the origins of the Second World War are figuratively groaning under the weight of works covering the topic of appeasement, it may come as a surprise to some when reading the preface to Appeasing Hitler that “while books on the Second World War have multiplied over the past 20 years, th...
Hace 3 días · Lloyd George wrote to his secretary and mistress Frances Stevenson — he had a wife, Margaret, based in Wales, and he seemed to run the two women in parallel. ‘The only thing I care about now,’ Lloyd George said to his friend Winston Churchill, who was unhappy about being demoted from First Lord of the Admiralty after the disastrous Dardanelles campaign, ‘is that we win this war.’
