Read The Last Lion Box Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965 Online
Authors: William Manchester,Paul Reid
Tags: #Biography & Autobiography, #Europe, #Great Britain, #History, #Military, #Nonfiction, #Presidents & Heads of State, #Retail, #World War II
Churchill arrives at the first Quebec Conference, August 1943. Beside him is Canadian prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. Riding shotgun is Churchill’s bodyguard, Scotland Yard’s Walter Thompson. (
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First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (left) and Clementine Churchill prepare to make an address over the Canadian Broadcasting Company, September 13, 1943. (
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Churchill addresses the U.S. Congress, 1943. (
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Churchill inspects British paratroopers before D-day, June 1944. (
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From left: Dwight Eisenhower, Churchill, and General Omar Bradley put new carbines through their paces before D-day, 1944. (
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Churchill in his siren suit with Eisenhower, May 1944. (
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Churchill and Brooke on their way to Normandy aboard a Royal Navy destroyer, June 12, 1944. (
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Churchill watches an artillery barrage, Italy, August 1944. (
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Churchill receives a bouquet of flowers from a little girl in Italy, August 1944. (
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Churchill and de Gaulle lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Paris, November 11, 1944. (
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Left to right: Brooke, Churchill, Montgomery, and General William Simpson crossing the Rhine, winter 1945. (
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Churchill scribbles a message to Hitler on a British artillery shell at the Rhine, winter 1945. (
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Churchill climbs the wreckage of a Rhine bridge, March 1945. He had fulfilled his longstanding promise to make Germany “burn and bleed.” (
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