Winston Churchill

                                                             
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, eldest son of Randolph Churchill and Jennie Jerome, was born on 30th November, 1874 in Blenheim Palace, Woodstock. During his childhood, Churchill proved to be an independent and rebellious student, he grew up to become a British politician, an author, and a painter. Churchill was known for his refusal to consider defeat to Hitler whose plan was to control Europe "We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end", he was known also for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Hitler gained power in Germany in 1933, him and the Nazi Party wanted to take over Europe and defeat France and Britain.


He held many political positions, including being Prime Minister twice (1940–45 and 1951–55).


Churchill was particularly noted for the radio broadcasts he took part in and the speeches and lectures he gave, in 1931, he held a lecture tour around the United States. He was a writer and received the Nobel Prize in Literature and was considered an Honorary Citizen of the USA. Winston Churchill is widely considered as being one of the most influential characters in British history.


In his own words: "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." ... "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." ... Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." ... "You ask what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory. Victory at all costs. Victory in spite of all terror. Victory however long and hard the road may be. For without victory there is no survival."

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Before the start of world war one, he married Clementine, on 12 September 1908. Clementine is the daughter of Sir Henry Hozier and Lady Blanche.


Moreover, Churchill had made several changes to the prison system, he had added the concerts program for prisoners and had worked to set up a special after-care associations system to keep helping convicts after they had served their imprisonment time.


He took some time off the politics and wrote several books over the years, including: The Story of the Malakand Field Force(1898), The River War (1899) [both were written while he was still in the army], Savrola (1900), Lord Randolph Churchill (1906) [the biography of his father], The World Crisis (1923-29 a 4 volumes of the World War One and 6 volumes of the World War Two that were published between 1948 and 1953/54), The Dawn of Liberation (1945), and Victory (1946).


During the first few months of 1941, Winston had a small heart attack, on a visit to the USA. In 1943, the health problem seemed to get bigger (he had another heart attack). In 1946, on another visit to the USA, he made his famous Iron Curtain speech at Fulton, Missouri. 7 years later, in June 1953, he suffered from a series of strokes while at his office. Then at the age of 90, on January 24th 1965, Churchill died from the effects of a sever stroke from which he suffered 9 days earlier.