Jenkins wrote 19 books, including a biography of Gladstone ( 1995 ), which won the 1995 Whitbread Award for Biography, and a much-acclaimed biography of Winston Churchill ( 2001 ).

Winston Churchill told King George VI: " It was thanks to Ultra that we won the war.

In 2002 his critically acclaimed portrayal of Winston Churchill in The Gathering Storm won him BAFTA and Emmy awards as Best Actor.

At the 1924 general election, Baldwin won a clear victory, the leading coalitionists such as Austen Chamberlain and Lord Birkenhead ( and former Liberal Winston Churchill ) agreeing to serve under Baldwin and thus ruling out any restoration of the 1916 – 22 coalition.

Rodgers won an Emmy for the music for the ABC documentary Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years, scored by Eddie Sauter, Hershy Kay, and Robert Emmett Dolan.

An early example is If It Had Happened Otherwise ( 1931 ) which features a contribution by Winston Churchill who examined what would have happened had Robert E. Lee won at the Battle of Gettysburg.

The British under Winston Churchill developed tank warfare with which they eventually won the war.

Clement Attlee won the 1945 general election and succeeded Winston Churchill after their coalition broke up but only after a two-month interval when Attlee was not a member of the government.

Dumbo won the 1941 Academy Award for Original Music Score, awarded to musical directors Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace.

While Operation Compass continued successfully in 1941 and resulted in the complete defeat of the Italian Army in North Africa, Wilson, who was already highly regarded by his World War I regimental colleague and now Secretary of State for War, Anthony Eden, had also won the confidence of Churchill himself.

Winston Churchill waves to crowds in Whitehall on the day he broadcast to the nation that the war with Germany had been won.

The Nazi blacklist was the list in The Black Book that was drawn up of 2, 820 prominent British citizens such as Winston Churchill and Bertrand Russell that would have been sent to concentration camps if the United Kingdom had not won the Battle of Britain and Nazi Germany's Operation Sea Lion had succeeded in conquering Great Britain.

On his saddle blanket is the number 6, his post position at Churchill Downs on the day he won the Kentucky Derby.

To widespread surprise, the Labour Party under Clement Attlee won a landslide victory over popular war leader Winston Churchill in the 1945 general election, and implemented their social democratic programme.

" After the war, Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill was to tell King George VI: " It was thanks to Ultra that we won the war.

Following his loss at Churchill Downs, Native Dancer won the Preakness Stakes, the Belmont Stakes, and the Travers Stakes, a feat accomplished until then only by Duke of Magenta, Man o ' War, and Whirlaway, and by only two other horses since.

Manly Five-eighth Cliff Lyons won the Clive Churchill Medal as the man of the match.

In this year Robbie O ' Davis won the Clive Churchill Medal.

Glenn Stewart was awarded the Clive Churchill Medal for his 34 tackles and a crucial try in the second half, making he and brother Brett Stewart the first ever brothers to score tries in the same Grand Final ( in the 10 matches where this Stewart Brothers ' double has occurred, Manly has won all 10 matches ).

On June 5, 1907, African American jockey James Lee set a record that has never been beaten when he won the entire six-race card at Churchill Downs.

A US Army officer claims the cigar-smoking iconic PM was an actor, Ray Bubbles, impersonating his own father, USMC lieutenant Winston Churchill, a genius spy who stole an enigma code machine and almost single-handedly won a very alternative battle for Britain

Bore Head won the 1963 Queensland Cup with Fred Clarke in the saddle, carrying just 7 stone 1 pound, defeating Booberanna, 1964 Ipswich Cup ( dead-heat with Isaacson ), 1965 Caulfield Cup, 1965 QTC Moreton Handicap, 1965 QTC Sir Winston Churchill Stakes and in 1967 the Australian Cup and the Doomben Cup.

He was also a member of the England A team that won the 2003 Churchill Cup in Canada and returned there again on the 2004 Churchill Cup tour.

Dorman-Smith got into an argument with Churchill and gave him a patronising lecture on military tactics.

Churchill himself got involved in the argument ; writing to the Secretary of State for war in January 1943 he asked " Why should the name Jefferis shoulder gun be changed to PIAT?

Then in 1927, Winston Churchill published his own account of the war, coming down heavily on Beatty's side in the argument.

True, in his political testament dated 26 February 1945 Hitler lamented that Churchill was " quite unable to appreciate the sporting spirit " in which he had refrained from annihilating the BEF at Dunkirk, but this hardly squares with the contemporary record.

By this time Churchill was not so cordial toward moving Poland westward as he had been at Teheran, where he and Eden had both heartily approved the idea.

Believing devoutly as they did in Anglo-Saxon institutions, it was important to both Roosevelt and Churchill that the Poles should have them.

It was a matter of principle with Churchill, since Britain had declared war in behalf of Poland.

Failing to heed the lesson so clearly contained in the satellite treaties, President Truman re-declared the Cold War on March 12, 1947, in the Truman Doctrine, exactly one week after the Herald Tribune editorial was written, and a year after the Cold War had been announced by Churchill at Fulton, Missouri, in Truman's presence.

He believes that greatness is a marriage between the man and the times as was aptly represented by Churchill, who would very possibly have gone down in history as a political failure if it had not been for Hitler's war.

Churchill was saved by Lord Moran, using sulphonamides, since he had no experience with penicillin, when Churchill fell ill in Carthage in Tunisia in 1943.

During the Second Boer War on 15 November 1899, Winston Churchill, then a war-correspondent, was travelling on board an armoured train when it was ambushed by Boer commandos.

Tank or " landship " development, originally conducted by the British Navy under the auspices of the Landships Committee was sponsored by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill and proceeded through a number of prototypes culminating in the Mark I tank prototype, named Mother.

The AVRE version of the Churchill Tank was armed with a Spigot mortar that fired a HE-filled projectile ( nicknamed the Flying Dustbin ).

Winston Churchill was one of its occupants.

Stroustrup has a master's degree in mathematics and computer science ( 1975 ) from the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and a Ph. D. in computer science ( 1979 ) from the University of Cambridge, England, where he was a student at Churchill College.

After Gott was killed flying back to Cairo Churchill was persuaded by Brooke, who by this time was Chief of the Imperial General Staff to appoint Montgomery, who had only just been nominated to replace Alexander as commander of the British ground forces for Operation Torch.

Montgomery prepared meticulously for the new offensive after convincing Churchill that the time was not being wasted.

By now Blenheim was under assault from every side by three English generals: Cutts, Churchill, and Orkney.

Lloyd George succeeded Asquith at the Exchequer, and was in turn succeeded at the Board of Trade by Winston Churchill, a recent defector from the Conservatives.

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough was one of the first generals in the British Army, fighting campaigns in the War of the Spanish Succession.

He was also the first person to hold the office of Deputy Prime Minister, under Winston Churchill in the wartime coalition government, before leading the Labour Party to a landslide election victory over Churchill's Conservative Party in 1945.

Attlee was his regular deputy in these committees, and answered for the government in parliament when Churchill was absent.

As Churchill was most concerned with executing the war, the arrangement suited both men.

These benefits had been legislated for the previous year by Churchill ’ s Family Allowances Act 1945, and was the first measure pushed through parliament by Attlee ’ s government.