“Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields.”

—  Winston S. Churchill

Source: Memoirs of the Second World War

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874–1965

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