Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts!
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill was born in England and was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst. After a brief career in the army, he became a Conservative Member of Parliament in 1900. He held many high posts in Liberal and Conservative governments during the first three decades of the century. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. In May, 1940, he became Prime Minister and Minister of Defence and remained in office until 1945, and then again between 1951 and 1955. He was knighted in 1953.
Winston Churchill, one of the 20th century’s most prominent statesmen, also left behind a large body of writing. His works include an autobiography in which he describes his adventurous years as an officer and war correspondent, a comprehensive biography of his ancestor, the first Duke of Marlborough, and a multivolume work about the First and Second World Wars. The books are characterized by colorful narration but also by objectivity. Churchill’s magnificent and epoch-making speeches during World War II also belong to his most important written works.
Winston Churchill as a young boy, aged 7, in Dublin, Ireland (1881).Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine in Aldershot in 1910.Winston Churchill shakes hands with 16 year old George Smith at Portsmouth dockyard on 31 January 1941. Smith claimed to be the youngest worker on the premises.Winston Churchill shaking the hands of submarine commanders who have accounted for thousands of tons of Axis shipping, on board the submarine depot ship HMS MAIDSTONE in Algiers, during a brief visit to the North African front. Maidstone was stationed at Algiers between November 1942 and November 1943.Prime Minister Winston Churchill and General Sir Bernard Montgomery gather with troops in Caen on 22 July 1944 who took part in the D-Day landings.British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin met at Yalta in February 1945 to discuss their joint occupation of Germany and plans for postwar Europe.Winston Churchill gives the “V” sign in reply to cheering troops as he leaves the liner QUEEN MARY with his wife Clementine on his return from Canada, September 1943.The Prime Minister gives the Victory sign in reply to the good wishes of the sailors, airmen etc aboard as he disembarks from SS QUEEN MARY on arrival in the USA. In the rear is Admiral Adolphus Andrews of the US Navy.Prime Minister Winston Churchill gives his famous ‘V for Victory’ sign to crowds in Whitehall on the day he broadcast to the nation that the war with Germany had been won, 8 May 1945 (VE Day).
Never Give In
“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
Winston Churchill during the General Election Campaign in 1945.
