Winston S. Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire in 1874 and educated at Harrow School and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. He fought in four wars on three continents and wrote five books before taking his seat in the House of Commons in 1901 at the age of twenty-six. Through most of the 1930s, he held no cabinet office but remained a member of the House of Commons. This was his most prolific decade as an author, during which he published his autobiography and a four-volume biography of Marlborough, among many other books. Upon the outbreak of the Second World War he becoming Prime Minister and Minister of Defense. The author of more than forty books, in 1953 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and in 1963 he was made an honorary citizen of the United States. He died in London in 1965. James W. Muller is Professor of Political Science at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. He is a By-Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, Academic Chairman of the Churchill Centre, and received the Farrow Award for Excellence in Churchill Studies. Muller earned his first degree and his Ph.D. from Harvard College. In 1983-84 he was a White House Fellow, serving in the U. S. Department of Education. He is cofounder of the Forty-Ninth State Fellows Program at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. Muller is editor of The Revival of Constitutionalism, Churchill as Peacemaker, and Churchill's "Iron Curtain" Speech Fifty Years Later, and of new editions of Winston Spencer Churchill, The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan, 2 vols.