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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 187. Chapters: Winston Churchill, Mandell Creighton, Mary Wollstonecraft, A. J. P. Taylor, Ian Kershaw, Edward Gibbon, Bernard Lewis, Hugh Trevor-Roper, John Leland (antiquary), John Foxe, Correlli Barnett, David Starkey, Paul Sanders, James Anthony Froude, Karl Pearson, Jeff Kent (author), Henry Chadwick (theologian), John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, Alan Clark, Polydore Vergil, Simon Schama, Isaiah Berlin, Antonia Fraser, Frederick Rolfe, William Henry Page, Matthew Paris, F. J. Foakes-Jackson, Ralph Henry Carless Davis, Robert Conquest, E. P. Thompson, Francis Loraine Petre, Norman Davies, Joshua Toulmin, Andrew Roberts (historian), Ken Hoole, Quentin Skinner, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, E. Jennifer Monaghan, Donald Serrell Thomas, Ian Sayer, Martin Gilbert, Norman Giller, Lawrence of Durham, Christopher Hill (historian), Aelred of Rievaulx, Peter Ackroyd, Henry Maxwell Lyte, Frank McDonough, Thomas May, Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, Harold Evans, James Rennell, Bulstrode Whitelocke, Arthur Francis Leach, Charles Burney, John Wheeler-Bennett, James Ralph, Geoffrey Elton, Charles Kingsley, William Camden, Raymond Carr, William Cave, Moses I. Finley. Excerpt: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, (30 November 1874 - 24 January 1965) was a British politician, best known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, he served as Prime Minister twice (1940-45 and 1951-55). A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. He is the only British prime minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature and was the first person to be made an Honorary Citizen of the United States. Churchill was born into the aristocratic family and was the grandson of the 7th Duke of Marlborough. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was a charismatic politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer; his mother, Jennie Jerome, was an American socialite. As a young army officer, he saw action in British India, the Sudan, and the Second Boer War. He gained fame as a war correspondent and wrote books about his campaigns. At the forefront of politics for fifty years, he held many political and cabinet positions. Before the First World War, he served as President of the Board of Trade, Home Secretary, and First Lord of the Admiralty as part of the Asquith Liberal government. During the war, he continued as First Lord of the Admiralty until the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign caused his departure from government. He then briefly resumed active army service on the Western Front as commander of the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers. He returned to government as Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War, and Secretary of State for Air. After the War, Churchill served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Conservative (Baldwin) government of 1924-29, controversially returning the pound sterling in 1925 to the gold standard at its pre-war parity, a move widely seen as creating deflationary pressure on the UK economy. Also controversial was his opposition to increase
