At his country estate in Chartwell, Churchill gathered the voices who were beginning to warn the world about the rise of Hitler and the coming conflagration.

What do posters, buttons, china, mugs, carvings, figurines and a wide variety of other collectibles tell us about the late, great statesman? Actually quite a lot.

Churchill was certainly not the hero of the ... He is a Guggenheim recipient and a Yale Ph.D. He is the author of 13 books, most recently Fascism: Career of a Concept and Revisions and Dissents.