Churchill continued to tempt fate, even as the war drew to a close In March 1945, the Germans were in retreat By 10 March, the Allies were on the west bank...

Despite his reliance on his nanny, Churchill missed his parents when they were away Here he writes to ‘Mamma’, during one of his stays at Blenheim, thanking her for presents of...

Churchill stoutly defended the government’s position – and urged unity – in a passionate speech in the House of Commons: ‘Let pre-war feuds die; let personal quarrels be forgotten, and let...

Churchill wrote to Eisenhower in the final days of office (the letter is dated ‘April’; he resigned on 5 April) saying that he hoped he might still be able to ‘serve’...

Chief among his eccentricities of style were his ‘siren suits’, so called because they could easily be slipped on and zipped up when the air raid sirens went (said to be...

Here Churchill reports to ‘the Sirdar’ (Sir Herbert Kitchener) saying ‘Dervish army, strength unchanged’, telling him that there aren’t any hostile forces within three miles of the camp Churchill was one...

No It’s been suggested that some of the famous recordings (not those on this site) aren’t actually the work of Churchill at all, but of an actor mimicking his voice Although...

Letter from Mary Soames to her father, 8 June 1964, seven months before his death...

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