Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965

Identifier
990002340540304146
Language of Description
English
Dates
1 Jan 1946 - 31 Dec 1978
Languages
  • English
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Note(s)

  • ports.

  • detailed dates of material: 1946-1950, 1952-1955, 1958-1962, 1964-1965, 1968, 1971, 1973-1974, 1976-1978

  • Envelope 4/116 ; microfilm reel 056 ; Frames 6 - 505

  • One of two files (from 1945-)

  • ca. 350 newspaper clippings, 4 articles, 2 bibliographical lists, 4 letters and 5 official publications.

  • Sir Winston Churchill was a British Conservative politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice (1940–45 and 1951–55). A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. He is the only British prime minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an Honorary Citizen of the United States. He considered himself a Zionist and supported the state of Israel -- (Wikipedia)

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