Winston Churchill

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The person who admire the most is Winston Churchill, he was
a British statesman, orator, and author who as prime
minister (from 1940- 1945 and 1951- 1955) rallied the British
people during World War II and led his country from the brink
of defeat to victory.
He was born in the Blenheim Palace on 1874, the young
Churchill passed an unhappy as well as a sadly neglected
childhood, redeemed only by the affection of Mrs. Everest,
his nurse.
Not only he was a politician, he also was first
integrated into an army career at a young age by his
father Lord Randolph Churchill, the meteoric Tory
politician, he was directly descended from John
Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough, the hero of the
wars against Louis XIV of France in the early 18th
century.
In a sense, the whole of Churchill’s previous career had
been a preparation for wartime leadership. An intense
patriot; a believer in his country’s greatness and its
historic role in Europe, the empire, and the world, a
student, historian, and veteran of war; a statesman who
was master of the arts of politics, despite or because of
long political exile; a man of iron constitution,
inexhaustible energy, and total concentration, he seemed
to have been preparing all his faculties so that when the
moment came he could save Britain and the values he
believed Britain stood for in the world.
All of this for his participation on WWII, he was a key for the Allies to win
against Germany, He shaped Allied strategy in the war, and in the war’s later
stages he alerted the West to the expansionist threat of the Soviet Union.
In any age and time a man of Churchill’s force and talents would have left his
mark on events and society. A gifted journalist, a biographer and historian of
classic proportions, an amateur painter of talent, an orator of rare power, a
soldier of courage and distinction, Churchill, by any standards, was a man of
rare versatility. But it was as a public figure that he excelled.
On April 9, 1963, he was accorded the unique
distinction of having an honorary U.S. citizenship
conferred on him by an act of Congress. His death at
his London home in January 1965 was followed by
a state funeral at which almost the whole world paid
tribute. He was buried in the family grave in Bladon
churchyard, Oxfordshire.