Churchill’s England

THE PARADOX that is life—an empire shaping a man, the man shaping that empire’s destiny—sweeps across the pages as the great moments in the personal epic of Sir Winston Churchill unfold. The man destined to lead Great Britain in her “finest hour” drew his first breath in historic Blenheim Palace. He was three years old when Queen Victoria assumed the title, “Empress of India,” the seeming apex of her people’s glory. Growing up, Winston hero-worshiped his ancestor, the first Duke of Marlborough,