Contents 1
1 Boyhood and college days 1
2 Soldier and politician 7
3 Marriage and a career 14
4 Pre-war problems 19
5 Churchill and the First World War 24
6 The end of the war：Churchill in the shadows 31
7 The ups and downs of political life 38
8 'The Gathering Storm' 45
9 Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain 53
10 Britain's struggle 59
11 America comes into the war 64
12 The Anglo-American alliance and D—Day 72
13 The Soviet Union and the last weeks of war 78
14 Victory in war bu t disappointment in peace 85
15 Churchill's last years 91
Key to the Exercises 98