Read The Last Lion Box Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965 Online

Authors: William Manchester,Paul Reid

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Charles Wilson, Lord Moran. Moran served as Churchill’s personal physician from 1910 until Churchill’s death, in 1965. (
Getty
)

Frederick A. Lindemann, Lord Cherwell (“Prof”). Called “Baron Berlin” by his enemies, Cherwell served as Churchill’s science adviser for more than three decades. (
Getty
)

Churchill on board HMS
Prince of Wales
, Argentia, 1941. At his first conference with Roosevelt, Churchill arrived with a long list of needs, aircraft and tanks at the top. (
Getty
)

Churchill with Franklin Roosevelt, escorted by his son Captain Elliott Roosevelt, aboard HMS
Prince of Wales
during the Argentia conference, 1941. (
Imperial War Museum, London
)

“Chip off the Old Block” little Winston struts along a London street with his mother, Pamela Churchill, June 1942. (
NARA
)

Clementine greets Winston on the tarmac at an RAF airfield outside London in August 1942 upon his return from Cairo and Moscow. The journey was the first of several he made aboard the B-24 Liberator
Commando.
(
University of South Carolina
)

Churchill and daughter Mary, a sergeant in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, wait for a demonstration of artillery to begin. (
AP
)

Bernard Montgomery, the hero of El Alamein. His victory there, in November 1942, after three years of British defeats and retreats, marked a turning point in the war. (
George Rodger/Life
)

Churchill, Joseph Stalin (center), and Averell Harriman in Moscow, August 1942. (
NARA
)

A 1942 poster greets arriving American troops deployed to Great Britain. By late 1943, more than 300,000 had arrived. (
Kenneth Rendell
)

With victory in North Africa in hand, Churchill in Algiers plans his Mediterranean strategy, June 1943. Seated from left: Anthony Eden, Alan Brooke, Churchill, General Marshall, and General Eisenhower; standing (behind seated men) from left: Air Chief Marshal Tedder, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, General Alexander, and General Montgomery. (
NARA
)

Churchill and Roosevelt at the Casablanca Conference, January 1943. It was here that Roosevelt announced the Allied terms of surrender to Germany, Italy, and Japan: “Unconditional Surrender.” (
NARA
)

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