When winston churchill wasnt busy helping make the world safe for democracy he was most likely painting he took up the hobby in 1915 finding in it a path out of the crippling depression that had been brought on by his ouster from the cabinet in the wake of gallipoli and he continued to work at itand enjoy itfor the rest of his life this book tells the story of churchills life through his paintings it gathers more than five hundred images primarily of churchills work and sets them al