In his book, How to Think Like Churchill, Daniel Smith charts the defining moments in the politician's life, and reveals the key principles, philosophies and decisions that made him the wartime leader we remember him as. Here, writing for History Extra, Smith reveals nine lesser-known facts about Winston Churchill…
In the half century since he died, there can be no contemporary British figure whose story has been so scrutinized as Churchill's. Of course he has his critics, and sometimes with good reason. He could be stubborn and impetuous, driven by ego, and sometimes unsympathetic to the plight of others (especially if they were not British, English-speaking or from a ‘Christian civilization').
