Contents

1 Boyhood and college days

2 Soldier and politician

3 Marriage and a career

4 Pre-war problems

5 Churchill and the First World War

6 The end of the war：Churchill in the shadows

7 The ups and downs of political life

8 'The Gathering Storm'

9 Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain

10 Britain's struggle

11 America comes into the war

12 The Anglo-American alliance and D—Day

13 The Soviet Union and the last weeks of war

14 Victory in war bu t disappointment in peace

15 Churchill's last years

Key to the Exercises