Churchill drank every single day during the war — starting at breakfast

Churchill drank every single day during the war, starting at breakfast. His personal physician recorded it all in a diary and stayed silent for 30 years. Lord Moran kept notes from 1941. Whiskey at breakfast, brandy at lunch, champagne at dinner. The man deciding the fate of millions began every morning with a glass. In 1943 in Thyron, Churchill negotiated with Stalin and Roosevelt in a condition his doctor described as severe. The opening of the second front was on the table. Twice Moran recorded signs of a heart attack. Both times in the middle of a crisis. Both times the patient asked for more whiskey. 10 cigars a day, over 220 lb. Moran quietly made his notes. Churchill died in 1965. Moran outlived him by 3 years and published the diaries. The medical council accused him of violating Dr. patient confidentiality. The family called it a betrayal. The book became a bestseller.