Who was Churchill?

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Winston Churchill is considered one of the leading figures of the twentieth century. This great writer, orator and statesman brought to Britain from the threat of certain defeat by the Nazis to a landslide victory over them. Descended from an ancient family of political and military born in November 1874. Although she tried to enter the ranks of the army and devoted to journalism eventually follow the footsteps of his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, a Conservative MP brilliant and irritable. He was elected MP for the Tories in 1900. In 1911 he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty (Navy Minister). Position he had to resign when they failed they had laid plans to expel the Turks from the Dardanelles during the First World War. After leaving that post he fought in France with the rank of lieutenant colonel, in front of a battalion. When the conflict ended he resumed his political career and was successively Secretary of State for War and Air, Secretary of State for the Colonies and Chancellor of the Exchequer (finance minister). After the outbreak of World War II was appointed prime minister. But at the end of armed conflict in 1945, the Conservatives were defeated in elections and Churchill had to leave his post, which resumed in 1951 when the Tories moved to Labour. He died in April 1955 at age 80.

Why was the Nobel Prize?

Paradoxically, for an eminently political, Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Peace. Conservative leader devoted himself with enthusiasm to the story. He wrote a biography of his father, a history of World War II and one from England and the English-speaking peoples.

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