Winston Churchill

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• As First Lord of the Admiralty he was involved in Great Britain's converion of a coalburning navy to one with oil fueled ships.
• Winston Churchill was part statesman, part writer and part soldier.
• Winston Churchill was best known for his courage and imagination.
• Winston Churchill had one son and four daughters, one of whom died in infancy. He and his wife sent the children to a governess rather than raise them themselves.
• Winston Churchill wrote The Gathering Storm.
• Winston Churchill claimed to be opposed to Nazi Germany in the early thirties, but in fact he was ambivilent until others opposed them.
• Winston Churchill returned from Cuba to be with his nanny for the last week of her life.
• In a recent survey in Britain, one in four Britons believed that Winston Churchill never existed, that he was a character made up for books, according to the London Daily Mail.