We know Winston Churchill as an outstanding political and statesman, a fighter against Nazism, and finally, a Nobel Prize laureate in literature. In a poll conducted by the BBC in 2002, 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 to 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 yet healed. Even the most revered period of Churchill's political career, during the war against Nazi Germany, was marked by the Bengal famine that claimed the lives of more than 3 million Indians, the clash between British troops and the Greek People's Liberation Army, and other "dark pages" that are documented in detail in the book. Tariq Ali.