Greetings all. I'm J.T. Fusco and this is Giants of History. I just wanted to take a split second to thank everyone who is supporting this work on Patreon. You know who you are and you're making this

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Churchill, I am publishing a separate show titled Giants of History, Goals for 2019 that you should also see in your feed right now.

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addresses the frequency with which this show gets published and it also touches on a new

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And now moving on from the foreplay. Please enjoy Winston Churchill, The Great Escape, Part 4. Oh, Here's something you must understand about Winston Churchill to fully appreciate the person that he was and what those who came across him in his early years and even his later years were dealing with.

He thought that he was called to a higher purpose than others.

He thought that he was invincible.

He thought that he was divinely favored.

In a letter to his mother, dated 5th, 1897, when he was 22 years old, Churchill said, quote,

I have faith in my star.

And then he continued stating, quote, I am intended to do something in the world.

End quote.

And these lines aren't too dramatic.

They're really just signs of his overall ambition and the confidence that he had in himself.

But there's another passage that Churchill wrote that is included in pretty much every biography

ever written on the man. The passage is taken from another letter that

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