It always amazing with famous people, particularly those that sit atop the world stage, to find out things, even after decades, that we didn't’ know.  It’s interesting information. But most of all it reshapes how we understand them and the how these new surprises might have shaped the world they touched. 

Such is the case with Winston Churchill and his underreported years as a journalist and war correspondent. This is the world that Simon Read takes us into in Winston Churchill Reporting: Adventures of a Young War Correspondent.

My conversation with Simon Read: