Churchill Part 2. World War II, The Blitz, Alliances with America and Stalin!!! Would Churchill Be Effective If He Lived During the Age of Social Media?  160,000 cigars smoked!   episode artwork

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Churchill Part 2. World War II, The Blitz, Alliances with America and Stalin!!! Would Churchill Be Effective If He Lived During the Age of Social Media? 160,000 cigars smoked!

from The Best Paragraph I've Read... · host Zac & Don

The Best Paragraph I've Read: 'I can see vast changes coming over a now peaceful world,' Churchill predicted to his friend Murland Evans; 'great upheavals, terrible struggles, wars such as one cannot imagine; and I tell you London will be in danger - London will be attacked and I shall be very prominent in the defence of London... I see into the future.  This country will be subjected, somehow, to a tremendous invasion, by what means I do not know, but I tell you I shall be in command of the defences of London and I shall save London and England from disaster... I repeat - London will be in danger and in the high position I shall occupy, it will fall to me to save the capital and save the Empire.  Churchill said those words not in 1931, 1921, 1911, or even 1901, but in 1891, when he was only sixteen years old.  He had seen his destiny as a teenager, and achieved it.  Aged sixty-five and considered by many - including Hitler - to be a hopeless has-been, he came to power and did exactly what he had prescribed for himself half a century earlier. This paragraph comes from the conclusion in the book Churchill: Walking with Destiny.  The book is written by Andrew Roberts.  You can find the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Churchill-Andrew-Roberts-audiobook/dp/B07K4DL8QP/ref=sr_1_1?crid=982ZL8JXP2YM&dchild=1&keywords=churchill+walking+with+destiny&qid=1623414016&sprefix=churchill+wal%2Caps%2C170&sr=8-1  Zac and Don discuss the second half of the epic biography on one of history's most famous people.  They discuss whether Churchill has become a myth.  They discuss his relationships with America, Russia, and France during World War II.  They wonder if Churchill would have been successful if he was a leader during the era of social media.  There's also the fall of France and Churchill's estimated 160,000 cigars that he smoked over the course of his life!

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