About the book: 2023 / We know Winston Churchill as the brightest political and statesman, a fighter against Nazism, and finally, a Nobel Prize laureate in literature. In a 2002 BBC poll, the British voted him the greatest Briton in history. However, Churchill was, above all, a man of his time, and therefore a passionate defender of the British Empire and the imperial idea. It is this side of his political activity, without which the portrait of Churchill would not be complete, that the famous British-Pakistani writer, historian, publicist and public figure Tariq Ali turns to. As the head of the British fleet during the First World War, Churchill made a number of catastrophic mistakes that cost him thousands of lives. His attempt to crush the Irish nationalists left wounds that have not healed to this day. Even the most revered period of Churchill's political career, the war against Nazi Germany, was marked by the Bengal famine that killed more than 3 million Indians, the clash between British troops and the Greek People's Liberation Army, and other "dark chapters" that are documented in detail in the book. Tariqa Ali.