Curated playlist
Winston Churchill
- Winston ChurchillWinston Churchill escaped a prisoner-of-war camp in Pretoria by hiding on freight trains. It made him famous.
- Cairo ConferenceAt Cairo in 1943, Roosevelt promised Chiang Kai-shek a big Burma offensive. Weeks later, he backed out.
- Tehran ConferenceStalin let a gift sword fall to the floor at the 1943 Tehran Conference. Churchill had just presented it.
- Gallipoli campaignThe Gallipoli campaign lasted from the 19th of February 1915 to the 9th of January 1916. By the time it ended, each side had suffered approximately 250,000 casualties. The Turks know it as the Çanakkale Savaşı, and the narrow peninsula…
- Casablanca ConferenceAt the Casablanca Conference, a handshake between two French generals had to be photographed twice.
- Norway DebateThe Norway Debate of 1940 was a vote the government won, yet it still cost Chamberlain his job. Its majority fell to 81.
- Potsdam ConferenceMid-conference at Potsdam in 1945, British voters replaced Winston Churchill with Clement Attlee.
- Yalta ConferenceStalin refused every meeting site Roosevelt suggested, so the Yalta Conference met on Soviet soil.
- Atlantic CharterThe Atlantic Charter was never actually signed. Roosevelt himself said no copy of it existed that he knew of.
- ChartwellChartwell is a country house near Westerham in Kent, and Winston Churchill explained his decision to buy it in one short sentence. "I bought Chartwell for that view." The view sweeps across the Weald of Kent from a hillside that rises to…