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Hace 3 días · We do learn more, if only glancingly, details about Churchill’s wife Clementine, including some of the specific ways in which she helped the war effort, such as visiting the subterranean tube or metro stations and making recommendations about conditions and necessary improvements for sanitation.
Hace 4 días · Churchill decided to go ahead anyway, and on 20 February he formed a Landships Committee at the Admiralty under the chair of Eustace Tennyson d’Eyncourt – a naval engineer who could not, in the first instance, see what any of this had to do with him. But d’Eyncourt would become one of the key drivers of the project over the coming months.
Hace 1 día · The Iron Curtain, in black. The black dot represents the Berlin Wall around West Berlin. Albania withheld its support to the Warsaw Pact in 1961 due to the Soviet–Albanian split and formally withdrew in 1968. Yugoslavia was considered part of the Eastern Bloc for two years until the Tito–Stalin split in 1948, but remained independent for ...
Hace 4 días · Death. Winston Churchill died on January 24, 1965, at the age of 90. He had suffered a brain hemorrhage some days before. See also: The best novels written by British politicians. Follow us and ...
Hace 5 días · Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt may be the greatest leaders in the history of democracies. Their achievements in winning the Second World War are well known, but perhaps less well known is the role their mothers played in their success. Historian Charlotte Gray's latest book is called "Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of ...
Hace 2 días · Located in Mayfair between Hyde Park Corner and Green Park stations, Down Street had a short life as a working station from 1907 to 1932 but became critical to winning the Second World War when covertly transformed into the Railway Executive Committee’s bomb-proof headquarters.
Hace 2 días · He was for a time politically associated with Lord Randolph Churchill, Sir Henry Drummond Wolff and John Gorst. This quartet became known as the " Fourth Party " and gained notoriety for leader Lord Randolph Churchill's free criticism of Sir Stafford Northcote , Lord Cross and other prominent members of the Conservative "old gang".
