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Churchill: A Life In Cartoons
by Tim Benson, Hutchinson Heinemann, £16.99
HERE’s a dinner party ice breaker: Greatest Ever Briton? Discuss!
Apart from a couple of smart arse dinner guests, (“Mister Blobby!”, “Basil Brush!”) it would be mere seconds before “Winston Churchill’ was adamantly offered up.
Churchill, like Wellington, was a brand before advertisers even came up with the concept. Already in his mid 60s when he became prime minister, his energy and phlegmatic character came to define how Britons saw themselves – resolute, implacable, resilient in the face of adversity.
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