In the 1930s, Winston Churchill was in disgrace and in the political wilderness. His warnings of the Nazi danger, and of the dangers of appeasement, were ignored. And then—he was back in the government, he was PM, and with his oratory he injected into all of Britain his will to fight: “if this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.” He