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Reflecting on mankind in 1949, when he was seventy-four,

Churchill quoted Alexander Pope:

“A being darkly wise and rudely great

Created half to rise and half to fall

Great lord of everything, yet a prey to all

Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled

the glory, jest and riddle of the world.”

These pictures of Churchill show us a man long since raised

into the pantheon of great men, but also a man whose

greatness rests on the fact that, despite all his faults and

failings, almost despite his very humanity, he achieved the

stature of one who will never fade and never be forgotten.

This book will, I hope, enable us to amble through the life

and character of this great man, enjoying him, analysing

him and, perhaps, forming our own personal views of

him – not just of the man of history but of the man within.