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Winston Churchill

Born in 1874, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a fondamental figure in both world war I and II, as he fought as a militar during the first, and he was the politician who led the United Kingdom through the second one, saving it when it was at the brink of loosing and turning the situation upside down. He was a great orator who inspired thousand of people, and an author of many important books. He was very famous, and still is nowdays because of his memorable speeches, that somehow had a great impact on people. It was thanks to those that he was able to lead the UK against Germany since the very beginning of World War II.
After an unhappy childhood, Churchill dedicated his life to military. It was only in 1899, at the age of 25, that, having matured and significantly changed interests, he resigned his commission, wanting to spend the rest of his life doing politics and writing. His career before 1939 was quite particular because he gained fame thanks to some events happened in South Africa; as he had been there for about a month reporting the South African War for The morning post he rescued an armored soldier ambushed by boers, at the price of being imprisoned himself, but he escaped less than a month later, and returned in the UK as a hero. After that, he became part of the parliment and at the same time continued writing and publishing new books. In 1904 he joined the liberal party and became known in little time. Between the 1920s and the 1930s the man covered many different roles in the parliment, and in 1924 he joined the conservatives.
Ever since the very beginning, Churchill tried to warn people of the dangers of Hitler's Germany, which was acquiring by 1933 always more and more power; however the Britons, wary of the man because of past acts and not wanting to get in between the war, listened to the prime minister Neville Chamberlain. During the war Britain stayed out of Germany's way, it also arrived to give a piece of Checozlovachia to the germans as a peace agreement. But when in 1939 Germany broke its promise and invaded Poland, the britons lost their trust in Chamberlain, so he was pushed out of office and Churchill became prime minister instead. As Churchill had announced in one of his first speeches ( One of his most famous, in which he explained what was his vision on Britain's position in the war, and his policy), the war was long and hard. When France fell to the nazis, Britain was air-raided for three whole months, and during this period, the only thing the man could do was to motivate the Britons to fight back and to resist. Later on, he also managed to convince the president of the USA Franklin Roosevelt to provide war supplies to the allies, even if America had yet to enter the war, a program also known as " Land-lease". At the end of world war II in 1945, two months after Germany surrendered, even if he was the one who had helped Britain and saved it during all that time, he was austed from the parliment togheter with all the conservatives.
In the years after the war, worried by the progressive expansion of the soviets, he tried to warn British and America's leaders and citizens. In 1951 he became once again prime minister at the age of 77, and he retired then in 1955. He was named Knight of the Order Of The Garter by queen Elizabeth. He then died in 1965, one year after he retired from parliment, as Britain's hero, the person that knew just what to do at the right moment, saving thousands of lives, and someone who honestly loved his country, and did anything in his might to save it.