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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874-1965) Prime Minister of the UK: 1940-1945 and 1951-1955

This biography has been written up to the end of WW2 (1939-1945). In the aftermath of Germany's surrender, a Labour government was elected followed by a Conservative government in 1951 with Churchill once more at the helm. By this time, he was not in good health and, in 1953, he endured a number of strokes before finally retiring from office in 1955.

By any standards, he was a man of rare versatility: a gifted journalist, biographer, historian, amateur painter, orator, soldier of courage and distinction. But it was as a public figure that he excelled and, in particular, as a wartime leader that he left his indelible mark on the history of Britain and on the world. At the peak of his powers, he demonstrated his unshakable resistance to tyranny from the right or the left and his capacity to look beyond Britain to the larger Atlantic community and the ultimate unity of Europe.

Stanza 2 - *hack - journalist

Stanza 3 - * Great War - WW1(1914-1918)

Stanza 4 * Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Stanza 6 - *coalition - a temporary alliance of all political parties.

Stanza 7 - *alliance - The Grand Alliance of Great Britain, the US and the USSR.

Stanza 8 - *Homburg - a high version of the bowler hat.
*V - the famous sign with his fingers to show his belief in victory

Stanza 9 - *earned his stripes - proved himself deserving of a particular position or designation. A phrase of military origin.

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