As prize-winning historian Jonathan Schneer reveals in MINISTERS AT WAR, Winston Churchill depended on a team of powerful ministers to manage the war effort as he rallied a beleaguered nation. Selecting men from across the political spectrum --- from fellow Conservative Anthony Eden to leader of the opposing socialist Labor Party Clement Attlee --- Churchill assembled a War Cabinet that balanced competing interests and bolstered support for his national coalition government. The group possessed a potent blend of talent, ambition and egotism.