Winston Spencer Churchill - Valletta, Malta - Dead Poets' Society Memorials on Waymarking.com

A larger than life bronze bust Winston Spencer Churchill, the wartime Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is resting on a 6' tall square marble base. Churchill is depicted from the mid-chest up. He is wearing a suit jacket, a vest, and a bow tie. He is looking straight ahead and displays a serious expression. The statue was erected in 1955.

The front of the base is inscribed:

Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was the son of Lord Randolph Churchill and the American socialite Jeanette Jerome. He was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst and served with distinction in the British army during the Boer War. His political careen began when became a Member of Parliament in 1900.

At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. From May 1940 until 1945 he was Prime Minister and Minister of Defence as inspired and led the British through World War II. In 1953, Queen Elizabeth II conferred on Knighthood on Winston Churchill and, in 1963, President Kennedy awarded him honorary United States citizenship.

In 1953 the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Winston Churchill "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values."

Books by Winston Churchill:

Non-fiction:

The Story of the Malakand Field Force 1898
The River War 1899
London to Ladysmith via Pretoria 1900
Ian Hamilton's March 1900
Lord Randolph Churchill 1906
My African Journey 1908
The World Crisis (6 volumes) 1923-31
My Early Life 1930
Thoughts and Adventures 1932
Marlborough: His Life and Times 1933-38
Great Contemporaries 1937
The Second World War 1948-53
Painting as a Pastime 1948
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (4 volumes) 1956-58

Fiction:

Savrola 1900
The Dream 1947

Collected Speeches:

There are around 135 published booklets of Churchill's individual speeches.