Novel research: Churchill’s war

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill made great efforts to boost morale, regularly visiting troops, factory workers and areas hit by heavy bombing. He also visited Bletchley Park. A short man, he stood on a large rock and praised the code breakers of Bletchley, calling them his “geese that laid the golden eggs and never cackled.”

Churchill travelled widely within the Allied countries in wartime, meeting with Roosevelt, de Gaulle, Stalin, Chiang Kai-shek, Mackenzie King and other national leaders. Though he was in his late sixties at the time, he clocked a total of 150,000 miles by air and sea in defiance of the incredibly dangerous conditions.