Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. He is best known for leading Britain through the Second World War and for his wartime speeches that rallied public morale. He spent much of the 1930s in political isolation, a period often called his "wilderness years," before returning to government and the premiership at age 65. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 and remained a Member of Parliament until 1964.