Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Life
Born inTO the aristocratic family of the Dukes of Marlborough , a branch of the noble Spencer family ,Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, like his father, used the surname "Churchill" in public life. Churchill's mother was the daughter of a famous New York businessman and she gave birth to Winston in 1874 at Blenheim Palace .He was educated in several schools SUCH as St. George's School AND ETON. Churchill started a brief career in THE army THUS visited India , Sudan and South Africa. But the most important COMMITment of his life was politicS OTHER THAN literature and journalism .

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Political career
Churchill became a Member of Parliament in 1900 wthin THE conservative party. He THEN entered the liberal party but soon he left thAT party because he had different opinions and he returned to the conservativeS . He held many high posts in BOTH Liberal and Conservative governments during the first three decades of the century. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty ?) . In May, 1940, he became Prime Minister and Minister of Defense and remained in office until 1945. After war Churchill lost the election with the conservativeS but he said to his wife we HAVE WON , because the war was fought for freedom (?) . He took over the premiership with the Conservative's victory of 1951 and resigned in 1955. However, he remained AN MP until the general election of 1964, when he did not seek reelection. Queen Elizabeth II conferred on Churchill the dignity of Knighthood and invested him with the insignia of the Order of the Garter in 1953. Moreover the US President jJ. F. Kennedy conferred on him the honorary citizenship of the USA in 1963.

Before the war he took part in the conference of Monaco where Chamberlain was the Prime Minister and when he returned TO England Churchill said BRITAIN WOULD GIVE ' blood,toil,tears and sweat' for freedom. During the war Churchill worked for the victory and met Roosevelt and Stalin in Teheran, in 1943. There, they talked about the FORTHCOMING invasion of France and THE WESTERN front. Then Churchill met Roosevelt and Chiang Kai-sheik to talk about the eEASTERN front. In 1945 they met again AT Yalta and they decided the FATE OF THOSE STATE THEY WOULD WIN , in particular of Germany. 1900Conservative MP for Oldham 1906Under-Secretary of State 1908President of the Board of Trade. 1910...Home Secretary 1911First Lord of the Admiralty 1912Royal Naval Air Service & Air Department 1915Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1919...Minister of War and Air 1921Colonial Secretary Defeated by E.D. Morel at Dundee in 1922 General Election Successfully elected to represent Epping in the 1924 General Election Stanley Baldwin, the leader of the new Conservative administration, appointed Churchill as Chancellor of the Exchequer In 1929, Churchill lost HIS office

NoT JUST A politicIAN

Churchill was also a writer and in 1953 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature thanks to his book memoirs of the Second World War.Churchill had a good sense of humor and wrote about serious things with irony. He drank, smoked, had meals and enjoyed life as much as HE COULD. Churchill liked painting and drawing . In fact he promised himself to spend his first million years in heaven just drawing.

Churchill liked fashion and liked TO look smart . In fact when, in May 1940, he TURNED 65 and became Prime Minister he didnt look HIS AGE. When he was Prime Minister he liked wearing the club suit OR the military uniform. Moreover he always had an unLIT cigar in his mouth . Churchill liked poetry and knew Ahmatova lyrics. First he became popular as a journalist then he wrote novels and memoirs. Otherwise he was a good reader and knew a lot of books in details. He was really interested in science fiction and fantasy.

Churchill seemed to be a very sensitive man. It is said that In 1940, in one of the districts of London, after a bombING, he saw a queue of people and wanted to know what was it for. A little later he got an answer: . for the birds feed.Churchill started to cry

He wrote also: The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898) and The River War (1899) 1900, he published his only novel, Savrola 1906, his first major work, the biography of his father, Lord Randolph Churchill 1933-1938, his other famous biography, the life of his great ancestor, The Duke of Marlborough 1923-1929, Churchill's history of the First World War The World Crisis 1930, an autobiographical account of his youth, My Early Life 1948,Painting as a Pastime 1948-1953/54, his memoirs of the Second World War 1956-1958, History of the English-speaking Peoples

His magnificent oratory: The Unrelenting Struggle (1942), The Dawn of Liberation (1945), and Victory (1946). Churchill, a gifted amateur painter, wrote Painting as a Pastime (1948).

Aphorisms
In war firmness of purpose. In defeat disobedience. In victory generosity. In piece good will. Ive cleared out, that Im able to make my working day longer, after taking an hour of midday sleep. Ive got from alcohol much more, than alcohol from me. Lonely trees could grow strong if not perished. The animals are strange. The dogs look up on you. The cats look down on you. Only a swine is equal in its look