Winston Spencer Churchill

1874-1965

Operation Hope Not

Operation Hope Not

This was their finest hour

”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, Hertigen 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 – antikommunistenGuldmyntfotenTysklands upprustningFörhandlingsfred 24-28 maj 1940Förhandlingsfred 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 – Winston Spencer Churchill

• Churchill – Martin Gilbert

• Churchill – Roy Jenkins

• Duellen – John Lukacs

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