Churchill: Walking With Destiny
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, English historian Andrew Roberts shares the story of this remarkable world leader.
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| 1:10.0 | So too was Winston Churchill's mother, who was born more accurately, more precisely, in Brooklyn. |
| 1:16.7 | Here to tell the story of Churchill is English historian Andrew Roberts, the author of Churchill Walking with Destiny. |
| 1:24.6 | Take it away, Andrew. |
| 1:34.4 | On the 10th of May, 1940, Winston Churchill became Prime Minister at about 6 o'clock in the evening, but on the morning of that day, at dawn, |
| 1:39.4 | Adolf Hitler invaded in the West, attacking Belgium and Luxembourg and Holland shortly afterwards |
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