Churchill assumed the position of prime minister in 1940, a few days
             after the German army pushed into Belgium and Holland. Though he was only
             appointed after the resignation of Neville Chamberlain, Churchill was by no
             means a newcomer to warfare or public service. As a young boy, Churchill
             already showed a great interest soldiers and warfare, and his early
             education at the Harrow school was geared towards preparing him for the
             Royal Military College at Sandhurst. Churchill graduated with honors from
             Sandhurst and was commissioned into the British army when he was 20 years
             While on leave from the army, Churchill worked as a correspondent for
             a London newspaper, covering war stories in Cuba, Egypt, the Sudan and
             later, the Boer War. Buoyed by his military record and the popularity of
             his books and dispatches, Churchill was easily elected into the House of
             Commons. By 1911, Churchill was charged with preparing the country's navy
             fleet as the first lord of the admiralty. By 1914, Britain had entered the
             war, and Churchill took his fleet to Belgium, helping the country repel
             German invasion. However, an ill-fated land campaign at the Gallipoli
             Peninsula caused great Allied losses, leading to Churchill's demotion from
             the Admiralty in 1915 (Charmley 1993: 82).
             Churchill was re-elected into the House of Commons in 1924, for the
             next five years, held the post of national finance minister. During the
             1930s, he also wrote several volumes, including an autobiography and the
             four volumes of Marlborough. Despite the general good reception of his
             books, the 1930s saw a decline in Churchill's popularity (Charmley 1993:
             96). Largely because held no cabinet posts, his prescient warnings
             against Adolf Hitler's military expansion went unheeded.
             These experiences as a war analyst, participant and as a pub
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