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No life was more valuable to the British spirit than his, as he represent his country’s will to resist the Nazis. Yet Churchill always craved excitement and danger and his wartime travels became a consuming passion, often to the detriment of his own health. Living in the age of a transport revolution, dictated principally by the rise of the airliner, this book tells the story of how Churchill fully embraced and exploited such developments as a means to secure major British wartime objectives and ultimately define the very notion of modern statesmanship. The story begins with a relatively simple trip to meet Roosevelt in a battleship in 1941, and continues through hazardous flights across enemy-occupied North Africa, to the highly organised and fateful conferences at Yalta and Potsdam in 1945.Fascinating and hitherto unexplored area of Churchill’s wartime efforts. Intimate portrait of the man in his own words and through the first-hand accounts of those who travelled with him including ministers, senior officers, secretaries, pilots, crews and family. Full appreciation of the ships and aircraft employed including the Boeing Clipper flying boat, the swift but spartan Consolidated Liberator bomber, the luminous Douglas Skymaster airlines and the Atlantic steamship Queen Mary. An absorbing story of risk-taking, initiative and improvisation, community and endurance.