Churchill walking with destiny review5/25/2023 ![]() And after a decade in isolation, he became the reluctant choice of both King George VI and the outgoing prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, to succeed the latter. Eventually, he was brought back into the government begrudgingly by the Conservative Party leadership as First Lord of the Admiralty. In the intervening years, he wrote and spoke with ever-increasing fervor against the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany, a lone voice in a complacent or oblivious world. ![]() But to do that, it must first carry us back to 1930, when Winston Churchill was at the low point of a three-decade political career still holding a seat in Parliament but out of the government and also out of favor with the leadership of the British Conservative Party, he was in isolation - political, social, and personal - for much of the decade that followed. ![]() ![]() Richard Trank's biographical film focuses on the 20 months between Churchill's ascent to prime minister and the American entry into the Second World War at the end of 1941 and the beginning of 1942. ![]()
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