Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965), Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1940 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1955. He led Great Britain to victory in the Second World War, although the Nazis conquered the whole of Europe, but Winston Churchill did not give up the land to Hitler. Winston Churchill is not only a prime minister, he is also a talented journalist, politician, orator and author. During World War II he gave persuasive speeches to the British people. And he had said after the English had defeated Rommel's forces at Alamein; “Now this is not the end. It's not even the beginning of the end. But maybe it's the end of the beginning." Winston Churchill's ancestors were both British and American. Churchill's father was the British lord, Randolph Churchill, the youngest son of John, the 7th Duke of Marlborough. Churchill's mother was Jennie Jerome, an American. Winston Churchill was born on 30 November 1874 in the Duke of Marlborough's grand palace, Blenheim. Winston Churchill's childhood begins in the late 1800s. In that period there were ...