Revisiting Churchill and the Lessons for Modern Political Tensions

Winston Churchill’s ‘The Gathering Storm’ offers crucial insights for today’s world as political tensions rise and global conflicts threaten international stability. Some books not only never grow old, they instead grow more relevant to the present day and indeed, even more pressing. One such book is ‘The Gathering Storm,’ the first volume of Winston Churchill’s six-volume history of the Second World War. In its preface, Churchill begins by telling the reader that he