'At the Microphone in the U.S.A.', 1943, (1945). British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in Washington during the Second World War, preparing to make a BBC radio broadcast to Britain. Politician and statesman Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, and again from 1951 to 1955. From "The Life and Times of Winston Churchill", by Malcolm Thomson. [Odhams Press Limited, London]