The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History

CONTENTS

ALSO BY BORIS JOHNSON

TITLE PAGE

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INTRODUCTION: A Dog Called Churchill

1 The Offer from Hitler

2 The Non-Churchill Universe

3 Rogue Elephant

4 The Randolph Factor

5 No Act Too Daring or Too Noble

6 The Great Dictator

7 He Mobilised the English Language

8 A Proper Human Heart

9 My Darling Clementine

10 The Making of John Bull

11 ‘The Most Advanced Politician of the Time’

12 No Glory in Slaughter

13 The Ships That Walked

14 The 100-Horsepower Mental Engine

15 Playing Roulette with History

16 An Icy Ruthlessness

17 The Wooing of America

18 The Giant of the Shrunken Island

19 The Cold War and How He Won It

20 Churchill the European

21 Maker of the Modern Middle East

22 The Meaning of His Name Today

23 The Churchill Factor

PHOTOGRAPHS

TIMELINE OF EVENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

NOTES ON SOURCES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

PHOTO CREDITS