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During the Second World War, Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler were mortal enemies. Before that, however, the two future leaders fought a mere ten miles away from one another on t
stanley thermos he Great War Western Front. And along with their guns, they also brought their paint brushes. Though they found themselves at the Western Front during the war, their backgrounds couldn ;t have been more different. Hitler joined a Bavarian reserve force after failing as an artist in Austria, while Churchill, recently disgraced from the failed campaign in Gallipoli, was stationed at the front in true Churchillian fashion he brought a bathtub along with him . Above: Adolf Hi
stanley cup becher tler seated at far left. Hitler would go on to win two Iron Cross medals, get promoted to corporal, and suffer from a shrapnel injury and a gas attack. Churchill, relegated to a brigadier-general, took up his command with a positive attitude and quickly won over his previously skeptical officers from a battalion that had seen major losses during the battle of Loos. The image at left shows Churchill in France commanding Royal Scots Fusiliers in January 1916. And as described in a recent History Today article by Nigel Jones, the two still managed to find time to exercise their artistic side. Alwa
stanley mug ys subject to depression, Churchill told the poet and diplomat Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: There is more blood than paint upon these hands ;. Indeed Blunt believed that had it not been for painting, Churchill might have
