Our Winston Churchill obsession
Geoffrey Wheatcroft considers why the world is still so fixated with Britain’s wartime leader more than half a century after his death
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Show Notes
Winston Churchill looms large in the modern imagination. Everyone from Fidel Castro to George W Bush have cited him as an exemplar in times of crisis. Historian Geoffrey Wheatcroft talks to Spencer Mizen about the world’s fixation with the wartime leader, arguing that this obsession is neither healthy, nor necessarily merited.
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