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Hello and welcome to another episode of the World War II podcast, I'm Agus Wallace.

From his earliest years, Winston Churchill was a risk taker.

As a young lieutenant in the army, he charged with the cavalry at the Battle of Ommdemond.

He saw action on the northward frontier and he took a trip to Cuba to observe the

war there.

As a journalist, he covered the war wall, putting himself in harm's way on numerous occasions.

Is 25, he entered the House of Commons, and held many of the great offices of state,

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