Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him; By David Reynolds; Basic Books; 464 pp., $32.50 Meant as a successor volume of sorts to Churchill’s own 1937 work, Great Contemporaries, ...

Professor John Charmley discusses whether Churchill has rewritten the history books to portray himself as a foreign policy visionary during the time of Appeasement. 'History will judge us kindly', ...

CAMBRIDGE, England — In more than 1 million pieces of paper, contained in some 2,500 boxes, locked behind a 6-inch-thick steel door, lies one of the greatest stories ever told. This is where Britain’s ...

Eight decades ago, Winston Churchill warned of Soviet aggression in a speech that angered many Americans but proved prophetic ...

The prime minister oversaw the war from a London bunker (the Cabinet War Rooms, above, adjacent to the new Churchill Museum) and from the field. In 1909, at age 35, he had already expressed an ardent ...

Winston Churchill, whose resolute leadership and combative spirit rallied Britain when it stood against Nazi Germany in some of the darkest days of World War II, was born in Oxfordshire, England, on ...

Winston Churchill has been called the Greatest Briton of all time, and he is certainly one of the most significant figures of the 20th century. While many Americans realize that he helped win World ...

It is a regrettable fact of secular history that its key inflection points are wars. We might wish it were otherwise, but it isn't and so we ignore the study of war and its relation to political ...

A painting by Winston Churchill that is a piece of both political and Hollywood history is coming up for auction. Christie’s auction house said Monday that the Moroccan landscape “Tower of the ...