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The Biographers: William Manchester and Martin Gilbert
28
Jan
2019
Great Contemporaries: William Bourke Cockran, the Great Mentor
24
Feb
2016
By FRED GLUECKSTEIN
Churchill’s capacious memory was well stocked with phrases he first heard from Bourke Cockran. “The earth is a generous mother” was the best known, but Churchill also recited his most basic beliefs in Cockran’s words.
Hillsdale College’s Official Biography: A Reader’s Appreciation
31
Jul
2020
By DAVE TURRELL
The Biography “is true, insofar as diligence and research can establish truth…. All an author can offer is a fragment of reality—that, and the hope that it will endure.” —William Manchester
Vox’s Churchill Myths: There They Go Again
19
Feb
2016
By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
Winston Churchill was no saint, and it is a disservice to pretend otherwise. But he is too complex a figure to be pigeonholed by writers who criticize without considering the full picture. As William Manchester wrote, Churchill “always had second and third thoughts, and they usually improved as he went along. It was part of his pattern of response to any political issue that while his early reactions were often emotional, and even unworthy of him, they were usually succeeded by reason and generosity.”
Great Contemporaries: Stanley Baldwin, A Case for Magnanimity
29
Apr
2024
1
By FRED GLUECKSTEIN
“As I was his chief critic my words are upon record.... The tragic course of events belied his judgment, but not all who now claim superior wisdom foresaw what was approaching. Here, then, there is erected this simple monument to the virtues and services of a good Englishman, who loved his country and faithfully sought the advance in the well-being of those whom it is now the fashion to call ‘the common people,’ but who were always dear to his heart.” —WSC
“The World Crisis” (4) Dardanelles: Success Has 1000 Fathers
04
Mar
2024
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
The War Council waxed euphoric over Dardanelles prospects, "turning eagerly from the dreary vista of a ‘slogging match’ on the Western Front." Next, why not a naval attack up the Danube, landing at Salonika, and sending a fleet up the Adriatic? One member envisioned the end of the Ottoman Empire and expansion of the British Empire as far as Palestine. None of these naively optimistic visions were voiced by Winston Churchill.
Pericles and Churchill: Matching Leadership, Millennia Apart
15
Feb
2024
By JUSTIN D. LYONS
Pericles sought to preserve Athens, its glory, power and reputation. Churchill demanded struggle not only for Britain, but for the very meaning of Britain—something larger than its borders, more powerful than its military strength and, ultimately more important than its survival: liberty. Churchill’s war was a battle for the freedom of man, to be defended first at home and then upon whatever far-flung fields the conflict would rage.
The Churchill Papers: Largest Private Repository of Recent British History
18
Sep
2023
1
By MARTIN GILBERT
“Having read them all and edited most, I can only conclude that the Churchill Papers will provide in the future, as they are already doing, a rich seam of historical gold—the richest in fact outside the Government’s own National Archives, which houses Churchill’s voluminous wartime papers, as well as the papers of his four-year peacetime premiership.”
Churchill and the Rhineland: “They Had Only to Act to Win”
14
Sep
2023
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
It is the belief of many thoughtful historians that Churchill said and did nothing about the Rhineland. His actions are more complex than that. He did give mixed signals, but he also proposed solutions. When France refused action, he favored collective action. His public declarations were hardly a clarion call. But we must bear in mind also that he was not in office. The Rhineland marked Churchill’s final disillusionment over the League of Nations and impelled his efforts to secure Collective Security. The problem was that the willing were few—and demonstrably unwilling to cooperate.
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.
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.”
Cambridge: “The Racial Consequences of Mr. Churchill,” A Review
14
Mar
2021
3
By ANDREW ROBERTS and ZEWDITU GEBREYOHANES
A forensic examination and point-by-point of a Cambridge University panel on Churchill, race, the British Empire and the Second World War.
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