The Best TIME Covers

40's - 50's

1941

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Winston Churchill
Man of the Year
January 6, 1941

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Cover Story Excerpt:
On May 13, 1940, in his first statement as Prime Minister to the British House of Commons, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill declared: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Those eleven burning words summed up the nature of Britain's war, turned Britain's back on the weaknesses of the past, set her face toward the unknown future....Read the full story

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