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Originally Posted by Jimbuna
IMHO he was the only person who had what it took to lead the country at a time of national crisis. Far better than Neville Chamberlain pacifist) was.
Strange as it may seem, I'm confident he was a hero in the eyes of the public but the election after wars end saw him defeated.
Many of the people I know or knew who were alive at the time )my father included) would often say 'He was a great wartime leader but quite the opposite in peacetime'.
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As I'm sure you already know, he was revered in the U.S as well and for the same reasons you just mentioned. Family who fought in WW2 have said that England wouldn't have survived as it did without Churchill at the helm.
History seems to agree with that assessment.
