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Winston Churchill’s First Day on the Job He’d Always Craved
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As the Nazis began their inexorable advance across northern Europe, Churchill took the reins as prime minister. His one fear was that he was too late to avert disaster.
Thomas E. Ricks
Published
May 26 2017
1:00AM EDT
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Thomas E. Ricks
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