Blood, Sweat and Booze: Churchill’s Debts and the Moguls Who Saved Him

Britain’s great war leader didn’t hesitate to get millionaires to pay for his cigars, fine wines and other delicacies, a new book shows.

In 1940, when Winston Churchill was up to his neck in Nazis, his residence’s spending on alcohol soared to double the amount the government had approved. The solution: List booze outlays under “entertainment expenses.” For Britain’s new prime minister, who took over the very day Hitler invaded Holland, Belgium and France, this was a good deal.

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