Winston Churchill: A Biography

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him an overnight celebrity.
Churchill always wanted to become a politician. Early in his life
he envisioned himself at political debates. His wish came true in 1900,
when he was elected to the Parliament as a Conservative, and he quickly
made his mark. ************ His political sympathies began to change,
however, and he "changed sides" in 1904, when he abandoned the Conservative
party for the Liberals.
When the Liberals came to power in 1905, Churchill entered the
government as secretary of state for the colonies. In 1908, the year of
his marriage to Clementine Hosier, he became a member of the cabinet as
president of the Board of Trade. Winston's political missions became more
and more important, in 1910 he became a member of the Admiralty. In 1913-
1914 Churchill completed British naval preparations for war.
During World War Churchill made some fatal mistakes in war strategy.
This was one of the main reasons that he was removed from the Admiralty
when the Conservatives ...

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office. He
disapproved violently of Baldwin's Indian policy, which pointed toward
eventual self-government. At the same time he warned against the ambitions
of Nazi Germany and urged that Britain should match Germany in air power.
As World War II drew nearer, his warnings were brought to life in bloodshed.
When general war broke out in September 1939, Churchill was offered his old
post of first lord of the Admiralty by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.
Following the unsuccessful allied attempt to "remove" the Germans from
Norway, Chamberlain was determined to resign. Churchill replaced him as
prime minister, just as Germany invaded the low countries on May 10, 1940.
The prime ...

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