May 8, 2025, is eightieth anniversary of V-E Day, i.e., Victory in Europe, when the Allied powers attained the surrender of Nazi Germany, thus leaving Imperial Japan as the lone remaining Axis power to be defeated (which occurred three months later, thus finally ending World War II).

Two days later, May 10, 2025, will mark the eighty-fifth anniversary of another game-changing event that would end up playing a crucial role in making V-E Day possible in the first place: the day that Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill assumed the reins of power as prime minister of the United Kingdom.

(If one wishes to nitpick, Churchill wasn’t knighted by Queen Elizabeth II—thus officially becoming “Sir Winston”—until April 24, 1953, i.e., nearly thirteen years after he became prime minister.)

Prelude to Winston Churchill’s Prime Ministerial Power

When Churchill finally took up residence at 10 Downing Street in London, World War II had already been raging for eight months. That’s correct, Neville Chamberlain, the same milquetoast British prime minister who preceded Churchill with his infamous........

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