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Há 17 horas · e. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill [a] (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955.
Há 2 dias · Colin Gubbins. Special Operations Executive ( SOE) was a British organisation formed in 1940 to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in German-occupied Europe and to aid local resistance movements during World War II . SOE personnel operated in all territories occupied or attacked by the Axis powers, except where demarcation lines ...
- 22 July 1940 – 15 January 1946
- United Kingdom
- Approximately 13,000 employees
Há 4 dias · Dr Adam Timmins, review of Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War, (review no. 2380) DOI: 10.14296/RiH/2014/2380 Date accessed: 19 May, 2024
Há 1 dia · Lloyd George's visit to Hitler at the Berghof in 1936 was condemned by Churchill as a monumental misjudgement, the Welshman's intuitive grasp had failed him. Yet Lentin asks, 'Who fooled whom in this Alpine encounter?' (p99) and he suggests that the two men shared many characteristics and attributes of showmanship and statecraft.
Há 2 dias · Baldwin's new Cabinet now included many former political associates of Lloyd George: former Coalition Conservatives: Austen Chamberlain (as foreign secretary), Lord Birkenhead (secretary for India) and Arthur Balfour (lord president after 1925), and the former Liberal Winston Churchill as chancellor of the exchequer.
Há 5 dias · Sir Winston Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace. In 1987 the palace and its surrounding property were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. The 2,100-acre (850-hectare) estate, which has remained in the Churchill family, is open to the public.
Há 2 dias · Consuelo Vanderbilt’s childhood home, the Petit Chateau on Fifth Avenue, Photo from Library of Congress Consuelo Vanderbilt was born in New York City in 1877 to Alva and William K. Vanderbilt.
