Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him; By David Reynolds; Basic Books; 464 pp., $32.50 Meant as a successor volume of sorts to Churchill’s own 1937 work, Great Contemporaries, ...

CAMBRIDGE, England — In more than 1 million pieces of paper, contained in some 2,500 boxes, locked behind a 6-inch-thick steel door, lies one of the greatest stories ever told. This is where Britain’s ...

Winston Churchill, whose resolute leadership and combative spirit rallied Britain when it stood against Nazi Germany in some of the darkest days of World War II, was born in Oxfordshire, England, on ...

Defenders of the European Convention on Human Rights, from John Major to Keir Starmer, have peddled the fallacy that Winston Churchill was the brains behind it. He was no such thing, argues Yuan Yi ...

Katherine Carter is the chief curator at the best site for entering into the life and mind of Winston Churchill. That site is not No. 10 Downing Street or the always-crowded Churchill War Rooms that ...

The plummet of the stock market in October 1929 created panic and scandal. Bigger shocks were yet to come.

It is a regrettable fact of secular history that its key inflection points are wars. We might wish it were otherwise, but it isn't and so we ignore the study of war and its relation to political ...

He ignored Churchill's frankness even as the prime minister encouraged resolve. President Donald Trump has taken to comparing himself to legendary British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to defend ...

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 ...