Winston Churchill. His era, his crimes. Ali T.

We know Winston Churchill as the brightest political and statesman, a fighter with Nazism, finally, the Nobel Laureate of Literature. During the survey conducted by the BBC in 2002, the British recognized him as the greatest British in history. However, Churchill was primarily a man of his time, which means a passionate defender of the British Empire and the imperial idea.

It is to this side of his political activity, without which the portrait of Churchill would not be full, the famous British-Pakistani writer, historian, publicist and public figure Tarik Ali turn. As the head of the British fleet during the First World War, Churchill made a number of catastrophic mistakes that claimed thousands of lives. His attempt to crush Irish nationalists left wounds that have not yet been healed. Even the most revered period of the political career of Churchill, when there was a war against Nazi Germany, was marked by the hunger in Bengal, which claimed the lives of more than three million Indians, a clash of British troops with the people's liberation army of Greece and other "dark pages", which are in detail documented in the book Tarika Ali.