Less than a century ago, on May 13 1940, Winston Churchill made his first address to the House of Commons as prime minister in one of the greatest speeches of all time. “We have before us an ordeal of ...

Who can forget the words""We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!

Gary Oldman has won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour, and apparently has been inspiring standing ovations in cinemas on both sides of the Atlantic, after ...

Winston Churchill’s famous rallying cry to Briton’s at the outbreak of World War II in which the leader vowed ‘We shall fight them on the beaches’ has been named as the best radio speech of all time.

Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him; By David Reynolds; Basic Books; 464 pp., $32.50 “Winston Churchill appeared to me,” Charles De Gaulle wrote in 1959, “from one end of ...