This book is part of the Oxford University Press' Lives and Legacies series. It is a very short book about Winston Churchill, an extremely famous British Prime Minister. Even though the book is short, it does a good job of detailing Churchill's long career.
The author's central theme revolves around the fact that Churchill's huge ego was both his greatest flaw and his greatest strength. He was a genius, but he sometimes made bad choices because he never asked other people for advice. For example, during World War I he made the disastrous decision to try to invade Turkey through the Dardanelle Straits. The failure of the operation led to the death of 46,000 allied soldiers at the battle of Gallipoli.
During World War II he redeemed himself. His strong stand against appeasement was key to defeating the Nazis. After World War II, Churchill coined the phrase the "Iron Curtain".
by Navtej Kohli. Read more about Navtej Kohli and his biography collection here.
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