Churchill's Return to the Man Britain Had Discarded

In 1940, Britain stood alone. France had fallen, the Luftwaffe darkened English skies, and the nation that had mocked and sidelined Winston Churchill for a decade suddenly remembered his name. Throughout the 1930s, Parliament had dismissed his warnings about Hitler as alarmist. Newspapers caricatured him as a warmonger past his prime. His own Conservative Party kept him far from power.…