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Churchill and the Genocide Myth: Last Word on the Bengal Famine
27
Jan
2021
Famine and Relief: Far from seeking to starve India, Churchill sought every possible way to alleviate the suffering without undermining the war effort.
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Amartya Sen,
Archibald Wavell,
Bengal famine,
India,
Indian Congress,
Leopold Amery,
Madhusree Mukerjee,
Mahasabha,
Mohandas Gandhi,
Muslim League,
Pakistan,
Quit India Movement,
Ramaswamy Mudaliar,
Stafford Cripps,
Subhas Chandra Bose,
Tirthankar Roy,
Victor Hope Lord Linlithgow,
Winston S. Churchill,
Zareer Masani,
A Doctor’s Tale: Lord Moran and Churchill’s Medical History
24
Jan
2021
How accurate were Churchill’s doctor’s diaries? Lord Moran was a skillful and devoted physician, less fastidious as a recorder of events.
Great Contemporaries: Eamon de Valera and a Long, Fraught Relationship
22
Jan
2021
Winston Churchill was not a man to bear grudges, and firmly admired the Irish. Yet he was strangely oblivious to the widespread, albeit not universal, hostility still felt towards him in nationalist Ireland. In 1953 he faced a libel action in Ireland arising out of his memoirs. It was brought by Eric Dorman-Smith, an Irish-born general whom he had dismissed during the Desert War. He expressed doubt that “an Irish jury would necessarily be unfair or that they would be prejudiced against me.” His legal advisers knew better. They made sure the case was settled before it got to be heard before a jury in Dublin. When Churchill died in 1965, de Valera, now President of Ireland, lauded him as a great Englishman. He could not omit to add the rider that Churchill had been a “dangerous enemy” of the Irish people.
1100 Titles: An Annotated Bibliography of Works about Churchill
09
Jan
2021
All the works concerning Winston S. Churchill since 1905, with annotations on content, quality and links to reviews.
Great Contemporaries: Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman
05
Jan
2021
Pamela Harriman, said Jacques Chirac, was “elegance itself...a peerless diplomat.” That old Francophile, her father-in-law, would have smiled.
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Averell Harriman,
Caspar Weinberger,
David Margesson,
Everard Digby,
Gunpowder Plot,
Jacques Chirac,
Jesse Helms. Paul H. Robinson Jr.,
John Churchill,
Legion d’Honneur,
Leland Hayward,
Minterne Magna,
Norman Ornstein,
Pamela Harriman,
Richard Holbrooke,
Richard M. Langworth,
Thomas Maier,
Winston Churchill (grandson),
Winston S. Churchill,
The Todman Duology: Plus ça Change, The Churchill Narrative Survives
31
Dec
2020
Scholarship accumulates and sources multiply, Todman writes. The perspective of Churchill’s memoirs persists—if sometimes heavily qualified.
A Vital Medical Contribution by Doctors Vale and Scadding
29
Dec
2020
Vale and Scadding offer a vital account of Churchill's medical history which expands our knowledge and sets the record straight.
The Bumptious Politician’s Guide to Churchill Myths and their Making
24
Dec
2020
“The Churchill Myths” is not about Churchill. It is about how politicians the authors don’t like wrap themselves in Churchill mythology.
Great Contemporaries: Alan Brooke, the Thoroughbred Professional
19
Dec
2020
Still visible above swirls of pettiness, heroes remain: Brooke, the great general; above him, looming ever larger, the man who saved liberty.
Cancel-Culture: We Expected Better from the National Trust and the BBC
17
Dec
2020
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Ahistorical attacks like that of the BBC and National Trust strip away a heroic past. When a nation loses its heroes, something in it dies.
Stephen Wynn on the Sweet and Sour of Churchill’s Decision-making
15
Dec
2020
Despite inadequate sourcework, Wynn takes a human view of Churchill, and so writes a book examining the “flawed decisions” of the “Greatest Briton.”
Paul Courtenay 1934-2020: No Better Definition of a Pro
13
Dec
2020
1
Paul Courtenay was indispensable, a Churchill encyclopedia. But he'd never say "I told you so." Even if he HAD told us so.