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"The medical world and Churchill’s entourage agreed that Sir Winston’s recovery after this fateful episode was spectacular. On 18 August, he presided over a cabinet meeting lasting for nearly three hours. Apparently, none of his close colleagues who knew what had happened could believe he had suffered any new medical problem."

Issues of peace and war: Dewey protested Herbert Hoover’s “peripheral” defense strategy in 1950, only to fall back on it, to Churchill’s displeasure, two years later.

Brough Scott, who is highly qualified, explores Churchill’s long and sometimes significant equestrian life, complete with penetrating observations.

Piecing history together from her mother’s letters, Jill Rose shines welcome light on an obscure episode in Churchill’s wartime premiership.

In a previously unpublished article, Winston S. Churchill contrasts the tenets of Socialism with the values of free societies.

“Politics are absolutely engrossing to you…and now you have painting for leisure and polo for excitement and danger.” —Clementine Churchill to WSC, 1921

In Parliament, Churchill generally supported on female suffrage. But he is misrepresented by invented quotations and unjust descriptions of his actual words.

Churchill’s refusal to indulge in criticism of America was more than prescient tactics; it embodied a deep understanding of, and belief in, “The Great Republic.”

Late in 1945, Winston Churchill had the splendid and characteristically generous idea of commemorating his 1940-45 Coalition Government—which had only broken up six months previously—by striking a large bronze medallion. In early 1946 he presented one to every member of that government, as well as to others. In all, there were 136 of these magnificent, four-inch diameter objects, each weighing 8.7 ounces. They were cast at Churchill’s own expense by the foremost manufacturer of such things, Spink & Son, a company founded in 1666.

As the postwar world began to take shape, Churchill, as in the 1930s, predicted danger ahead. Initially, his cries fell on deaf ears. Out of power, he watched as the United States’ and his country’s foreign policy drifted towards what he perceived as another disaster—communism’s ascendancy. Then a letter arrived from President Harry Truman, inviting him to speak at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri in March 1946. It was an opportunity for Churchill to shape history once again. Though what came to be known as his “Iron Curtain Speech” received mixed reactions at the time, today, scholars recognize that it laid the foundation of public opinion needed for the West to pursue a vigorous challenge to Soviet hegemony.