The churchill factor5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() He was famous for his ability to combine wining and dining with many late nights of crucial wartime decision-making. ![]() He was a celebrated journalist, a great orator and won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Fearless on the battlefield, Churchill had to be ordered by the King to stay out of action on D-Day he pioneered aerial bombing, yet hated the destruction of war and scorned politicians who had not experienced its horrors. Taking on the myths and misconceptions along with the outsized reality, he portrays - with characteristic wit and passion - a man of multiple contradictions, contagious bravery, breath-taking eloquence, matchless strategizing, and deep humanity. Marking the fiftieth anniversary of Winston Churchill's death, Boris Johnson explores what makes up the Churchill Factor - the singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the twentieth century. 'The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.' ![]() the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever. ![]()
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