It was the end of a warm summer day in July 1945, and seventy-year-old Winston Churchill was unsteady on his feet.
He had just emerged from the Führerbunker, Hitler’s Berlin bomb shelter, where he had directed the last months of the Nazi war effort and had committed suicide twelve weeks before.
Churchill’s Russian guide led him to the broken remains of a…
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