THE CHURCHILL FACTOR is a book to be enjoyed not only by anyone interested in history: it is essential reading for anyone who wants to know what makes a great leader. Most of all, as Boris Johnson says, 'Churchill is the resounding human rebuttal to all who think history is the story of vast and impersonal economic forces'. His open-mindedness made him a pioneer in health care, education, and social welfare, though he remained incorrigibly politically incorrect.
He was famous for his ability to combine wining and dining with many late nights of crucial wartime decision-making.
He was a celebrated journalist, a great orator and won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Fearless on the battlefield, Churchill had to be ordered by the King to stay out of action on D-Day he embraced large-scale strategic bombing, yet hated the destruction of war and scorned politicians who had not experienced its horrors. Churchill Who Saved the Western World Boris Johnson’s The Churchill Factor proves beyond reasonable doubt that Winston Churchill (1874-1965), more than any other man, literally saved the 20th Century from becoming the blackest hole ever created by a human being the savage beast, Hitler: a vast wasteland, prostituted and rapined by a robber-barron of unparalled proportions, a. Taking on the myths and misconceptions along with the outsized reality, he portrays - with characteristic wit and passion-a man of multiple contradictions, contagious bravery, breath-taking eloquence, matchless strategizing, and deep humanity. To order The Churchill Factor for 20 (RRP 25) go to or call 03. "The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.' Marking the fiftieth anniversary of Winston Churchill's death, Boris Johnson explores what makes up the 'Churchill Factor"-The singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the twentieth century.
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