Are you as sick as I am of modern films portraying Winston Churchill as a faultless smiley hero, chatting merrily to citizens on the London Tube while the Luftwaffe roars overhead, and also winning all his battles?
These babyish screen depictions make it impossible to understand why King George VI didn’t trust Churchill and why much of the Tory Party pretty much loathed him, or why he was chucked out on his ear by British voters in 1945.
Truly great men, you see, are often misfits, awkward, even rude, and not always likeable, let alone popular. The modern syrupy accounts also don’t
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