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 exits Hitler’s bunker, Berlin, July 1945. (
NARA
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Churchill prepares to give his radio address announcing the German surrender, May 8, 1945. (
NARA
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Churchill joins the royal family, from left, Princess Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth, and King George VI, on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on VE-day, May 8, 1945. (
AP
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Churchill, with Clementine, campaigns in the general election, June 1945. A victory would give him the electoral mandate he lacked when he formed his 1940 government. (
NARA
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Churchill, in his rompers, and Clementine, taking a few days’ rest before the Potsdam Conference, pose for a photographer on a French beach, July 1945. (
NARA
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Churchill, Truman, and Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945. (
AP
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Churchill, with Harry Truman, arrives at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, March 1946, to deliver what became known as the Iron Curtain speech. (
National Churchill Museum, Westminster College, Fulton, Mo.
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Churchill sits for a portrait by Douglas Chandor, 1946. (
NARA
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Churchill lights a cigar as he paints a landscape on a hilltop outside Château de Lourmarin, near Aix-en-Provence, 1948. Wherever Churchill went in retirement, his brushes and paints went, too. (
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Out of office, Churchill with new friends, Miami, 1946. (
History Miami
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Churchill in his Order of the Garter regalia with his son, Randolph, and grandson, Winston S., 1953. (
Library of Congress
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Clementine (left) looks on as Churchill greets Queen Elizabeth II on his last night as prime minister, April 1955. (
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