Winston Churchill

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 29 November 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Winston Churchill was many things a writer, politician, journalist, painter but the defining aspect of his career was as a war leader. Warfare infused his life from its very beginning due to his relation to the Duke of Marlborough and a childhood re-enacting the Battle of Waterloo in the ground of Blenheim Palace. As a young man, he saw conflict at first hand both as a soldier and a reporter in Cuba, India, Sudan and South Africa. In the political wilderness following the disaster of Gallipoli during the First World War, he undertook service on the Western Front. These experiences were what made Churchill uniquely qualified as Prime Minister in 1940 to lead Britain through its great ever military crisis and onto victory in the Second World War. Joining Dan to discuss how the military experiences of his formative years shaped him for the difficult military decisions he took in office is Anthony Tucker-Jones. Anthony is a former defence intelligence officer, widely published military expert and author of the upcoming book: Churchill, Master and Commander: Winston Churchill at War 1895–1945. They examine Churchill's military career, his role as commander in chief and the decisions he took both good and bad.

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0:00.0	I've all marked him down to this history.
0:02.2	We're talking about Winston Churchill's day.
0:03.4	It's his birthday on the 30th of November.
0:06.7	It's his 147th or so birthday.
0:10.0	We show you that he achieved many things.
0:11.4	He achieved many things in his life.
0:12.7	He didn't achieve a mortality.
0:14.4	He'd of course die in January 1965,
0:17.3	but he packed a lot into that life of his.
0:20.2	Given it's his birthday weekend or birthday week,
0:22.5	we thought we'd talk about him and the military
0:25.8	as a soldier, as a journalist, as a politician.
0:29.0	He saw a lot of war in Cuba, in South Asia,
0:33.2	in the South continent, in South Africa, Sudan,
0:36.3	the Western Front and elsewhere.
0:38.2	He served and he observed war in its rawest form.
0:41.9	Antony Takar Jones is a former British intelligence officer.
0:45.2	He's a widely published military expert,
0:47.4	and he's just about to publish Churchill,
0:49.8	master and commander, Winston Churchill at war 1895-1945.
0:54.3	In this chat with Antony,
0:55.1	he gave me a chance to talk about some of the bits
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