Duty and Destiny

A nuanced portrait of a great historical figure considered everything from a "God-haunted man" to a "stalwart nonbeliever"   What did faith mean to Winston Churchill?  Churchill was far from transparent about his religious beliefs and never regularly attended church services as an adult, even considering himself "not a pillar of the church but a buttress," in the sense that he supported it "from the outside." But Gary Scott Smith assembles pieces of Churchill's life and words to convey