Winston Churchill

Max Hastings has written a book on Winston Churchill, and it's excerpted in the Daily Mail.

"His tale will never lose its capacity to move us to awe, laughter, tears, astonishment. Mankind will never forget his moral example, which will define political leadership for the rest of time. Hitler created World War II. The struggle later became dominated by the might of Russia and the United States. But no one human being could claim greater credit for the destruction of the vast evil of Nazism than Britain's prime minister. This cataclysmic event became, in the eyes of the world and posterity, Winston's war."

We could use a Churchill today!