Winston Spencer Churchill
1874-1965
Operation No Hope
Operation No Hope
”Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilisation. Upon it depends our own British life and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us now. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour”
House of Commons 18th June 1940
The first time you meet Winston you see alla his faults, and the rest of your life you spend i discovering his virtues.
Pamela Plowden
Politisk karriär
Invald i parlamentet 1900Statssekreterare 1906Inrikesminister 1908MarinministerAmunitionsministerFinansminister 1924Marinminister 39-40Premiärminister 40-45, 51-55
All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.
Enoch Powell
Konservativ 1900-1904
Liberal 1904-1922
Konservativ 1924-1964
Författaren
1898 The Story of the Malakand Field Force1899 The River War 1900, romanen, Savrola 1906, biografin över hans far, Lord Randolph Churchill 1923-1929, Churchills historia om det första världskriget, The World Crisis 1930, hans ungdomsskildring, My Early Life 1933-1938, hans andra biografi om hans förfader, Hrtigen av Marlborough1948-1953/54, hans historia om det andra världskriget 1956-1958, de engelsktalande folkens historia
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Nobelpris 1953
Konstnären
LivsnjutarenFrankrikeChampagne“In victory – deserve it, in defeat – need it” Pol RogerCigarrer
FamiljenClementineBarnenFöräldrarna
Diana 1909-1963
Randolph 1911-1968
Sarah 1914-1982
Mariegold 1918-1921
Mary 1922
Politiska striderArbetsmarknadsfrågorIrland / IndienBolsjevismen - antikommunistenTysklands upprustningFörhandlingsfred maj-juni 40Krigsföringen februari 42Kalla kriget Westminister College Fulton Missouri 1946Valkampanjen 1950-51
Europarörelsen
Zürich 19 September 1946
Augusti 1949-1950 Strausbourg
Fransk-tysk partnerskap
Litteraturtips
• My early life• Churchill – Martin Gilbert• Churchill – Roy Jenkins• Duellen – John Lukacs
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