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Churchill on the V1 Bomb: “Mass Effects Overwhelm Detached Sentiment”
Churchill’s comments on the V1 reveal a rare quality: a genuine appreciation of enemy cleverness, albeit overwhelmed by “mass effects.”
“Shall We All Commit Suicide?”: Churchill’s Scientific Imagination – Part 1
Churchill’s imagination in engaging with science and its potential consequences enabled him to confront vast change between the Victorian and Atomic eras.
Great Contemporaries: Orde Wingate – “A Man of the Highest Quality”
Wingate “lives on in the long-range penetration groups, and all these intricate and daring air and military operations.” —WSC
A Walking Tour of Winston Churchill’s Historic Whitehall
The Churchill Project provides descriptions of the twelve most significant locations in Whitehall, London as they relate to Winston Churchill.
Sinking “Lusitania”: A Long-Lived Conspiracy Theory
The first chapter of Nigel Hamilton's book, The Mantle of Command, states that the Lusitania was an “ill-fated American liner.” He leaves the impression that Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, had played a role in the sinking in order to get the United States into World War I.
History as Prologue: Winston Churchill and the Historian as Statesman
Churchill looked back on the past with reverence and with regularity—thankfully so, for we owe him the same debt we owe to our history: gratitude.
Remembering Richard Haking: The General who Saved Churchill’s Life
Unknowingly, General Haking assisted in one of the narrowest of Churchill’s many escapes from death. “Over me,” said WSC, “beat the invisible wings.”
Churchill and Shakespeare without Melodrama: a Response to Jonathan Rose
Jonathan Rose writes that the sea of Churchill's tastes was dominated by melodrama, but he misses the whale among the fish—Churchill's beloved Shakespeare.
In Defense of Graham Sutherland and his “Infamous” Churchill Portrait
Today, we need not flinch from the image. Sutherland saw a man behind the legend, reached deep, and gave us the man. The legend needed no portrait.
Winston Churchill’s Statesmanship before the First World War, 1912-14
Prudence, Aristotle’s primary quality of statesmen was well demonstrated by Churchill at the Admiralty in the years leading up to the First World War.