Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace, the son of a British politician and an American mother. He did poorly at school but became a cavalry officer and war reporter, fighting at Omdurman in Sudan and escaping from a prisoner-of-war camp in the Boer War. Elected to Parliament in 1900, he held many offices, including First Lord of the Admiralty in the First World War, when the failed Gallipoli campaign forced him out for a time. In the 1930s he was out of office and warned repeatedly against Nazi Germany's rearmament, while most leaders hoped to avoid war. In May 1940, as German armies swept into France, he became prime minister. His speeches and refusal to make peace with Hitler held Britain together when it stood almost alone, and he worked closely with Franklin Roosevelt and later with Stalin until victory in 1945. Voted out that year, he returned as prime minister from 1951 to 1955. He also painted and wrote many histories, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953.

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Faith: In early letters he wrote that he did not accept the Christian or any religious belief; his later views are debated. Source: Wikipedia