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Anarchism and Fire: What We Can Learn from Sidney Street
05
Jun
2015
Charles Stephenson Examines WSC as Home Secretary
07
Aug
2023
4
By WILLIAM J. SHEPHERD
Churchill was the youngest Home Secretary since Sir Robert Peel in 1822. His, accomplishments, the greatest of which was prison reform, did not rank among his most remarkable. Still, he proved himself administratively and politically competent. Stephenson portrays a strange mix of radical and traditionalist, with a “mercurial approach to politics”— “a political Lazarus” who proved that the Home Office was not a career-ending move.
Churchill for Today: What He Thought and Said about Terrorism (Part 1)
22
Feb
2022
1
By CHRISTOPHER C. HARMON
Churchill: "What I mean by frightfulness is the inflicting of great slaughter or massacre upon a particular crowd of people, with the intention of terrorizing not merely the rest of the crowd, but the whole district or the whole country. We cannot admit this doctrine in any form. Frightfulness is not a remedy known to the British pharmacopoeia.”
Great Contemporaries: Lord Attlee on “The Churchill I Knew” Part 2
07
May
2018
By CLEMENT ATTLEE
"He was, of course, above all, a supremely fortunate mortal. History set him the job that he was the ideal man to do. I cannot think of anybody in this country who has been favoured in this way so much, and, into the bargain, at the most dramatic moment in his country’s history. In this, Winston was superbly lucky. And perhaps the most warming thing about him was that he never ceased to say so."
A New Pictorial Documentary With a Twist
29
Jan
2018
“Winston Churchill: Politics, Strategy and Statecraft”
18
Jan
2018
By MICHAEL RICHARDS
The book provides “a short, accessible and analytical introduction to key themes in Churchill’s life [that] reflect cutting edge scholarship.” But several books do that better [...]. This book does not offer much that is new, and lacks editorial unity. Some authors cover the same ground, variously agreeing or contending, with no cross-references or attempts to contrast their opinions.
Churchill for Readers Who Read Monitors
25
Oct
2017
By ANTOINE CAPET
There seems to be a new trend in publishing: serious books in a format once the preserve of books for young people. Last year we had Cate Ludlow’s attractive "I Love Winston Churchill: 400 Fantastic Facts." Now, at the same keen price, we have this title by Richard Wiles in a series which already offers “graphic biographies” of Jane Austen, Cézanne, Leonardo and Shakespeare.
“Churchill: The Life” – by Max Arthur
10
Feb
2017
By CHRISTOPHER HARMON
When a photo editor considers creating a Churchill “pictorial biography,” is he ever deterred by the stacks of just such books accumulating along shelves of libraries since the 1940s? One cannot be sure, but Max Arthur has been “toiling in the Churchill vineyard” for many years. There must be a hundred picture books dedicated to Churchill. After all, he lived his entire life in the era of the camera. In this new volume, about 260 pages hold photographs, a few in color. The large format gives great impact to many we’ve seen before, but the print quality, the lighting, is enhanced.
The Churchill Timeline: His Life and Times, 1874-1977
09
Oct
2023
Alan Saltman Looks at Churchill’s Decision to Fight On—Again
09
Mar
2023
1
By William John Shepherd
Once Churchill became prime minister, ignominious vassalage à la Vichy France was never a serious possibility. But Saltman's psychological profile of why Churchill fought on omits a crucial dimension: Churchill’s belief in constitutional democracy. That didn’t come from his upbringing or the military, but from his wide reading of the classic philosophers, and broad understanding of representative government.
A New Gospel of Churchill Perfidy by Otto English
11
Nov
2022
By HERBERT ANDERSON
On the 1916 Western Front, English claims Churchill was miles away from the “real war,” never in any real danger, and an inept officer. But Martin Gilbert—whose books English cites—offered numerous instances of Churchill surviving German artillery or machine gun fire, and of leading soldiers into No Man’s Land. Soldiers who served with him had every reason to regard him as an aristocratic interloper. In the end they praised him to a man.