Winston Churchill: The Villain

The forgotten side of the celebrated war hero.

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Churchill is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders Europe has ever seen, leading the Allies to victory in the Second World War. He became Britain’s prime minister on 10 May 1940. As he was later to write: ‘I felt…that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial.