In the age of unsung women, they made global history and it was perhaps the most unlikely of men who led them.
Winston Churchill represented the past far more than the future. Born in Blenheim Castle, grandson of the Duke of Marlborough, he embodied the English aristocracy, becoming a maverick rebel of a politician and taking on Hitler, the German dictator, at a time when Wold War II was underway with the Nazi threat looming. The British empire was at risk. It was also a time when women were hardly even second-class citizens, scrambling for low-level jobs and excluded from social or political prominence. From their ranks Churchill chose his secretaries, which was hardly an accolade in those days, but they emerged as a new breed who are credited with helping him win the war.
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