Churchill's interest in military affairs continued throughout his life. This 1909 photograph shows him attending German Army maneuvers with Kaiser Wilhelm. Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (November 30, 1874 - January 24, 1965) was a British politician w
Churchill's interest in military affairs continued throughout his life. This 1909 photograph shows him attending German Army maneuvers with Kaiser Wilhelm. Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (November 30, 1874 - January 24, 1965) was a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, he was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. He is the only British Prime Minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States. At the forefront of politics for fifty years, he held many political and cabinet positions. He took the lead in warning about Nazi Germany and in campaigning for rearmament. His steadfast refusal to consider defeat, surrender, or a compromise peace helped secure British resistance. His speeches and radio broadcasts, which helped inspire the British people. Upon his death in 1965 at the age of 90, Elizabeth II granted him the honor of a state funeral, which saw one of the largest assemblies of world statesmen in history. Named the Greatest Briton of all time in a 2002 poll, Churchill is widely regarded as being among the most influential people in British history. Wilhelm II or William II (January 27, 1859 - June 4, 1941) was the last German Kaiser and King of Prussia, ruling the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia from 1888 to 1918. His support for Austria-Hungary in the crisis of 1914 that led to World War I. An ineffective war leader, he lost the support of the army, abdicated in 1918, and fled to exile in the Netherlands where he died in 1941 at the age of 82.
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