Alex Plaut November 30, 2015 Mr. Henson Math His Final Hour: The Fall of the Wartime Coalition Government In an era between 1948 and 1954 (During the Forgotten Years of Winston's Churchill's Life), history changed. A man, who was ‘driven by a search for vindication’ after the calamitous 1945 Election, put to paper an astonishing 2 million words, thus cementing his position in history and combating his critics. Churchill famously said while combating these critics, “Alright I'll leave it to history; but remember that I will be one of the historians.” The 6 volumes of memoirs on the Second World War was a “testimony to his single sense of purpose; to his whole philosophy of life: The idea of keeping on flying against resistance inspired churchill’s …show more content…
Churchill was a competent strategist in the theatre of war and had provided Britain with beautiful oratory during its darkest hours. “Churchill spoke to the depths of people’s souls when Britain was alone, when the country was fighting for survival -- and he reached them and he confronted them in a way that no other speaker could have done. His language stirring --- and old fashioned-- suited the moment. But as the country neared the end of six long and debilitating years of war, the people needed a new language, a new vision for a post war Britain -- and that an exhausted Churchill could not find.” To Churchill darkness still loomed over the world, as the entirety of evil was not squashed from the earth. As the War in the Pacific was still continuing and Churchill feared the ever-foreboding and spreading communism of eastern Europe. To Churchill, while prime minster, matters of reconstruction were meaningless if there was no Britain left to reconstruct. As the general election of 1945 loomed, he told his doctor, Lord Moran, “ I have a very strong feeling that my work is done. I have no message. I had a message. Now I can only say fight the damn socialsists. I do not believe in this brave new world.” A man who had once rallied the nation “evoking ancient instincts-- the deep desire of the islanders to beat off an invader; and the danger so intense and so obvious that there could be no question about his sincerity”, could no longer rally the nation, by 1945 the electorate had kicked Churchill out. “The voters wanted an end to wartime austerity, and no return to pre-war economic depression. They wanted change. Three years earlier, in the darkest days of the war, they had been offered a tantalising glimpse of how things could be in the bright dawn of victory. The economist