Incredible but True: How Winston Churchill Was Nearly Killed by a Chocolate Bomb

It has been said that all's fair in love and war. But even in wartime, loading an explosive device inside a delicious chocolate bar is a dirty deed indeed.

The most horrific of atrocities are frequently perpetrated during times of war, and World War II was no exception. By 1943 the world had been shaken by four years of invasion and bombing, as the appalling death tolls rose into the millions.

On the Allied side, hopes for a breakthrough ran high. Britain’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill and US president Franklin Roosevelt had reached an agreement at the “Casablanca Conference,” which would lead to an increase in the regularity with which the United States would bomb Germany.

Germany, however, saw the Casablanca Conference as an opportunity: a chance to put an end to Churchill and in doing so maybe even end the war. But what type of sweet conspiracy had the Germans cooked up to eliminate Winnie from the scene permanently? From the Allied perspective, one of the most bitter kind.