Churchill was reckless, bordering on insane and was very fortunate to have a ton of very competent military men around him. He was a little man, petty, arrogant, and weird. Even for the time period he was backward thinking, even suggesting using antrax and poison gas against the germans...thank gawd Ike told he to shut his mouth...literally. He was a royal PITA...he took over at the perfect time but the british people were the heroes of the island and the millions of americans who save them. Catastrophe creates artificial leaders...Stalin, Churchill, Bush were incredibly inept in their responses to tragedy...except people needed a leader and they created one...regardless of reality.