Sunday. Winston Churchill dies. His last words, after being kept alive for days by artificial means, are: “I’m so bored with it all.” At his funeral, his Union Jack-draped coffin is honored by every European monarch, from Charles de Gaulle to Ike Eisenhower to David Ben-Gurion. The locomotive carrying the coffin is named the Battle of Britain. He is arguably the most important English historical figure of the 20th century, who changed the course of history, perhaps saving Western civilization.
