The Best Prime Minister the UK ever had aside from Margaret Thatcher. As a young man,He was a Lieutenant , a POW who then escaped and later journalist in the Boer War, later, he became CNO of the British Navy in WW1 but after resigning over the Gallipoli failure, he became a Battalion Commander and served at the front lines in WW1. During the 1930s, he visited Germany and saw the real face of Nazism up close. He was the but of jokes in the UK parliament over his hate of Hitler. After WW2 began, in 1940, he was again appointed CNO of the UK Navy. He became Prime Minister after Chamberlain resigned. This is just the summary of Churchill's experience before Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain.