Podcasts History The WW2 Podcast 156 - Churchill, Master and Commander

156 - Churchill, Master and Commander

Published: Dec. 15, 2021, 5:30 a.m.

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From his earliest days, Winston Churchill was a risk-taker. As a young Lieutenant in the army he charged with the cavalry at the battle of Omdurman, he saw action on the North-West Frontier and took a trip to Cuba to observe the war there. As a journalist, he covered the Boer War putting himself in harm\\u2019s way on numerous occasions.\\xa0

Aged 25 he entered the house of commons and held many of the great offices of state including First Lord of the Admiralty at the outbreak of the First World War, then minister of munitions and at the close of the war Minister for War and Air.\\xa0

I\\u2019m joined by Anthony Tucker-Jones.

Anthony is a British former defence intelligence officer and a widely published military expert. His new book Churchill, Master and Commander: Winston Churchill at War 1895\\u20131945 assesses how Churchill\\u2019s formative years shaped him for the difficult military decisions he took when he became Prime Minister in 1940.

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