Winston Churchill

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Churchill

British ordinance workers put the final touches to anti-aircraft gun barrels, c1940. (Photo by Hudson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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A colossus at war

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Churchill’s UFO ‘cover-up’

A portrait of Winston Churchill

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‘Ask your father’: the general election of 1945

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Churchill’s Empire

Winston Churchill on roller skates

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Churchill on roller skates

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Finest years: Churchill as Warlord 1940–45

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Warlord: Churchill at War

English historian Edward Gibbon (1737-94), author of 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

The decline and fall of the British Empire