Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill: India's moral leader and Great Britain's greatest Prime Minister. Both became living icons, idolized and admired around the world. They remain enduring models of leadership in a democratic society. This book reveals how their rivalry shaped the 20th century and beyond.

This work presents the history of how Scotland produced the institutions, beliefs and human character that have made the West into the most powerful culture in the world. Within one hundred years, the nation that began the 18th century dominated by the harsh and repressive Scottish Kirk had evolved into Europe's most literate society, producing an idea of modernity that has shaped much of civilisation as we know it.