Winston Churchill was the living embodiment of the British mantra "Keep calm and carry on" throughout World War II. However frantic things may have been behind closed doors during the conflict, he ...

Prime Minister Winston Churchill asked for the new tank to be ready for production by March 1941, with the first seeing service in 1942. Candles, wreaths, famous faces: VE Day at 80 in pictures.

The infantry tank was named after England's celebrated wartime prime minister Winston Churchill and commissioned in 1940 to replace the famed Matilda II tank, whose mobility shortcomings were ...

Winston Churchill’s Hobart’s Funnies initiative created tanks to traverse beaches and swamps, shoot flamethrowers, clear minefields and swim. Dwight D. Eisenhower selected only the swimming tanks.

I n 2024 Winston Churchill is 150 years young. A product of Victorian Britain, born in 1874, he has proved a hardy perennial—lauded by many for his defiance of Nazism, castigated by others for ...

Katherine Carter is the chief curator at the best site for entering into the life and mind of Winston Churchill. That site is not No. 10 Downing Street or the always-crowded Churchill War Rooms ...

Christie's held an auction for "The Bay of Eze," a painting by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. With fees and all, the painting ended up selling for 945,000 pounds.

Churchill VII Flamethrower Tank – Sir Winston’s Fire-Breathing Namesake. Technically speaking, “Dragon” may have been a more accurate reptilian moniker for this tank than “Crocodile ...

Winston Churchill was crowned the greatest Briton of all time by a BBC poll in 2002. According to a new survey by the think tank Policy Exchange, however, only one in five British people between 18 ...

Prime Minister Winston Churchill asked for the new tank to be ready for production by March 1941, with the first seeing service in 1942. Candles, wreaths, famous faces: VE Day at 80 in pictures.