For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air.

Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen. Here I might leave my bones.

Here there was real danger and a real risk of being killed; the campaign was brutal and bloody In one battle – in which fifty of the 1,300 British and Sikh...

In the summer of 1940, with German U-boats patrolling the seas and German bombers marshalling on the coast of France, Britain faced its first serious threat of invasion since 1805 Many found...

Leaving Harrow, after three years in the Army Class at Harrow School, Churchill went to a ‘crammer’ to help him pass the entrance exam to Sandhurst He eventually passed on the...

Of the ‘big three’ Allied leaders (the others were Stalin and Roosevelt), it was Churchill who did the most travelling during the Second World War, to keep up the necessary discussions,...

In 1943, it was calculated that he’d travelled 110,000 miles by ship or plane since the beginning of the war Before his speech to the British troops in Carthage, for example, he’d...

Only the intervention of King George VI prevented Churchill going to observe the D-Day landings on 6 June from a battle cruiser But a few days later, with battles still being...

Churchill continued to tempt fate, even as the war drew to a close In March 1945, the Germans were in retreat By 10 March, the Allies were on the west bank...