Ray Winstone's amazing talent for bringing out the humanity buried inside his often brutal screen characters - violent offender in 'Scum', wife-beater in 'Nil b

An account of the World War II prime minister's early career covers his contributions to building a modern navy, his experimentations with radical social reform

"First published in Great Britain by Macmillan"--Title page verso.

As a young man Winston Churchill was greatly influenced by Bourke Cockran, a charismatic New York City congressman who was Churchill's widowed mother's lover an