Churchill's maneuvering and flagrant self-promotion alienated his fellow officers and essentially ended any chance of high promotion in the Army however he was able to parlay his popularity to gain a seat in Parliament.Īfter being voted out of office Churchill wrote a history of the Second World War, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953. During this period Churchill became a very popular wartime journalist, writing numerous columns and several best-selling books about his experiences.
After a mediocre performance at the public school Harrow, Churchill joined the army, where he freely used his family connections to get assigned to several colonial wars, narrowly escaping death on a number of occasions - and by all accounts having a ripping good time while doing so. In the years since his death Churchill's reputation has grown to semi-legendary proportions.Ī descendant of the famous English general the Duke of Marlborough, Churchill was born in 1874 at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. At various times he was either the most beloved or the most hated man in Britain. At various times a soldier, journalist, author, and politician, during his long life Churchill was known for both his intellectual brilliance and his outspoken support for what were often unpopular opinions.
Winston Churchill, whose full name was, "Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill," was undoubtedly one of the most important people of the twentieth century. The UK has an area of 93,800 square miles (243,000 km 2), making it the 80th-largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th-largest in Europe. The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland. Lying off the north-western coast of the European mainland, the country includes the island of Great Britain-a term also applied loosely to refer to the whole country-the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands.Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another state (the Republic of Ireland).Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to its west and north, the North Sea to its east and the English Channel to its south. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a sovereign state in Europe.
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