Died sixty years ago, on January 24, 1965, the “old bulldog” was an immense Prime Minister… in times of war. An imperialist full of prejudices, anti-social at times, a gallant “old-fashioned” man, this cheat would not last a day in today's neo-progressive world.
Which politician acts as if he will die before the age of 50? Nobody, except Winston Churchill, long convinced to follow the tragic destiny of his father. Born in 1874, the future Prime Minister, descendant of the dukes of Marlborough with suicidal temerity, was first an ultranationalist journalist and hero of the colonial wars. Saved by improbable miracles on the battlefields, this aristocrat from ancient times, a deputy for six decades and charged with government responsibilities for thirty years, will have a political trajectory made of spectacular mischief as well as grandiose successes.
