Winston Churchill

When VE Day finally came in May 1945 it was met with relief, exhaustion, and cynicism. Was the Second World War in Europe really over?

Political reputations are forged by actions, but the long view of history can be hard to predict.

Britain’s Second World War Conservatives and their utopian dream of world government. 

In spring 1944 the Allied invasion of France seemed inevitable. D-Day’s success was contingent on deception of the enemy. For that, officials turned to the press.

Cita Stelzer’s Churchill’s American Network and David Reynolds’ Mirrors of Greatness seek to bring Churchill’s contemporaries and adversaries out of his shadow.

John F. Kennedy idolised Winston Churchill, but his efforts to host his hero proved abortive.

Signed at the height of the Second World War, the Atlantic Charter set out the terms for the decolonisation of French North Africa.

Churchill’s vision of Britain’s role in the world may provide the key to Brexit.

Did the idea of nuclear war make Britain’s wartime leader more God-fearing?