Sir Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on two occasions, from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Celebrated as one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century, he was also a gifted orator, statesman and historian. The author of more than 40 books, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 and in 1963 was made an honorary citizen of the United States. Christopher Lee is a British writer, historian and broadcaster. A former BBC defence and foreign affairs correspondent and Quatercentenary Fellow in Contemporary History and sometime Gomes lecturer at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK, he is author or editor of 26 books and is the originator and writer of the BBC Radio 4 trilogy This Sceptred Isle. His recent books include the three accompanying volumes of This Sceptred Isle and in 2011 he published the single-volume abridgment of Winston Churchill’s four-volume A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.