On Thursday, December 20,1945, the editor of the Sunday Dispatch, Charles Eade, lunched with Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine at their new home in Knightsbridge in London. Eade was editing the former Prime Minister ’s wartime speeches for publication, and they were due to discuss the latest volume. Churchill’s passions and emotions often mastered him, and he never minded crying in public, even as prime minister, in an age that admired the stiff upper lip. For although he was indeed walking with destiny in May 1940, it was a destiny that he had consciously spent a lifetime shaping. Excerpted from "CHURCHILL: WALKING WITH DESTINY" by Andrew Roberts, published by Viking Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, © 2018 by Andrew Roberts.

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