The Churchills

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 16, 2011

Winston Churchill was recently voted "The Greatest Briton." Mary Lovell looks at his failures and triumphs and discusses the history of his extraordinary family. The Churchills: in Love and War, recounts Winston Churchill’s successful political and military campaigns, the building of great houses, the domestic tragedies, and his happy marriage, set against the disastrous unions of most of his family.

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