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“Surely Churchill Said That?” The Expanding Lexicon of the Fake Quote
Why invent a quote? Perhaps in the hope that “the specter of Winston will pause to embrace the willful quoter and smoke a cigar with him.”
Creating Jordan “With the Stroke of a Pen on a Sunday Afternoon…”
Jordan may have been created with the stroke of a pen, but Churchill didn’t quite say that, and his creation has now survived for 100 years.
Churchill on South African Prison Camps, and Other Selective Quoting
"The civilized combatant is obliged, at peril of being classed a savage, to avoid unnecessary cruelty to his enemy. Unless there has been unnecessary cruelty, whatever the suffering, there can be no barbarity. If there has been unnecessary cruelty, all who are in any way responsible for it are infected with the taint of inhumanity." —Churchill, 1901.
Questions and Answers: How Churchill Would See Our World
Churchillians in Portland, Oregon have Sir Winston on their minds; their questions are pertinent to our understanding of him, and ourselves.
Great Contemporaries: Archibald Wavell, Man of Silences (Part 2)
Churchill believed any obstacle could be surmounted, while Wavell prepared for the worst. Both traits had served Britain well.
Longest Campaign: Winston Churchill and the Atlantic Battle, 1940-43
The protracted Atlantic battle hinged on desperate choices between defense and taking the fight to the enemy. The crux came in 1943.
Great Contemporaries: Archibald Wavell, Man of Silences (Part 1)
Confronted with the seeming impossible in the Middle East, Wavell acquitted himself well and was promoted as often as he was sacked.
How Churchill Conducted Business in Bed, with his Avian Assistant Toby
After visiting WSC in bed, while mopping a sign of Toby’s affections off his head, Butler sighed patiently: “The things I do for England.”
“The River War” Returns in a Masterful and Scholarly New Edition
The River War is remarkable because of its author, length, content and audacity. The author was already a rising political star, having run and lost for Parliament. At 962 pages, the book analyzed the Anglo-Egyptian reconquest of the Sudan, a conflict largely forgotten today—except for its dramatic concluding event, one of history’s last great cavalry charges, in which Churchill himself participated.