This engaging poem depicts Winston Churchill as a hero, in traditional
epic style and echoes the works of Homer and Virgil. The metre adds an
emotional intensity to the events of 20th century history more usually
found within Classical literature. The narrative covers the period from
1940, when Great Britain faced perhaps the greatest threat to its very
existence as an independent nation: invasion and defeat by the rampant
forces of Nazi Germany, to 1941 when the United States entered the war
after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.