WINSTON CHURCHILL: HERO, EMPIRE, AND THE WHOLE TRUTH
Episode 13 | Human History — Individuals
In this History episode we focus on Winston Churchill — the man who kept Britain in the war in 1940 when almost any rational calculation suggested accommodation with Hitler was the only viable option, and the man whose War Cabinet's decisions made the 1943 Bengal famine significantly worse, killing between two and four million people.
This episode covers the childhood, the Gallipoli disaster, the Wilderness Years of warning about Hitler, the extraordinary wartime leadership, the Bengal famine, the 1945 election defeat, and the return to power — holding…
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