Winston Churchill

The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, FRS PC (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. At various times a soldier, journalist, author and politician, Churchill is generally regarded as one of the most important leaders in British and world history. He won the 1953 Nobel Prize in literature.

References

• Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War by Robert Massie (ISBN 1844135284); deals with forty years of European politics by reference to the naval arms race between Britain and Germany. Contains chapters on Churchill's early life (chapter 40: "I Do Believe That I Am a Glowworm") and period as First Lord of the Admiralty (chapter 41: Churchill at the Admiralty).
• Churchill: A Life by Martin Gilbert (ISBN 0-8050-2396-8)
• Winston Churchill by Henry Pelling, (first issue) 1974, (Wordsworth Military Library Edition) 1999 (ISBN 1-84022-218-2),
• Winston Churchill by Sebastian Haffner, Reinbek 1967, Germany
• Quotations database, World Beyond Borders.
• The Oxford Dictionary of 20th Century Quotations by Oxford University Press (ISBN 0-19-860103-4)
• The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Visions of Glory 1874-1932, 1983, Little, Brown (Vol. I) by William Manchester, ISBN 0316545031
• The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Alone 1932-1940, 1988, Little, Brown (Vol. II) by William Manchester, ISBN 0316545120
• Volume III remains unfinished as of August 2005