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Sir Winston Churchill bestrode the 20th Century. He held many political
and cabinet positions including Home Secretary from 1910 and then
Chancellor of the Exchequer and Secretary of State for War. However it
was on 10th May 1940 when Churchill became Prime Minister and took
control of Britain's war effort that he finally sealed his place in history.
This is the incredible story of the darkest days of World War II when Churchill
and his Generals - Montgomery, Alexander, Wavell and Brooke were facing
catastrophe on every front. They suffered defeat at Dunkirk and survived the
Battle of Britain. With enormous amounts of courage and skill they fought off
the Luftwaffe and managed to hold on until the Allied invasion of Europe. He
appointed key men to command the forces upon which the free world's survival depended. Men like Montgomery, Slim, Auchinleck, Alan Brooke and
Alexander were given the highest command to wage war against Hitler.
This is the story of his relationships with these remarkable men and the Ameri-
can Generals who followed them including Dwight Eisenhower and George
Marshall. The story of an erratic impossible English genius pitted against the
superb skills of his Generals in a battle which influenced the destiny of mankind.
