Emperor Hirohito's 1971 tour of Europe made it painfully clear that the wounds of the Second World War had not healed, as crowds who remembered his soldiers' wartime atrocities greeted him with cold silence and contempt.
Churchill's dictum that nations arm in order to negotiate from strength has never felt more relevant. A look at what "peace through strength" actually meant to Churchill — and what it might mean today.
It all seems so neat, clean, and clear now. The popular memory of the Second World War rolls along in a smooth and well-established succession.
Cita Stelzer's Churchill's American Network and David Reynolds' Mirrors of Greatness seek to bring Churchill's contemporaries and adversaries out of his shadow.
Once the Second World War was won, Winston Churchill had two preoccupations: preserving his place in posterity and making lots of money. If they could be achieved simultaneously, so much the better.
On 12 April 1961 Winston Churchill sailed into New York harbour aboard a luxury yacht. Then 86 years old and increasingly frail, this was to be his final visit to the US.