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“Angel of Deliverance”: Churchill’s Tributes to Joan of Arc
02
Nov
2020
1
Despite his encomiums to Joan, Churchill rated Napoleon higher, with Georges Clemenceau a close third—and, a bit farther down, de Gaulle.
“Shall We All Commit Suicide?”: Churchill’s Scientific Imagination – Part 2
31
Oct
2020
Churchill’s affinity for scientific techniques, themes and writers significantly proclaims his openness toward the future—and its perils.
Churchill on the V1: “Mass Effects Overwhelm Detached Sentiment”
27
Oct
2020
“Shall We All Commit Suicide?”: Churchill’s Scientific Imagination – Part 1
24
Oct
2020
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”
08
Oct
2020
Wingate “lives on in the long-range penetration groups, and all these intricate and daring air and military operations.” —WSC
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Abyssinia,
Alan Brooke,
American Air Commandos,
Archibald Wavell,
Bradley P. Tolppanen,
Burma Campaign,
Chaim Weismann,
Chindits,
David Ben-Gurion,
East African Campaign,
Gideon Force,
Haile Selassie,
James Wolfe,
Joseph Stillwell,
Louis Mountbatten,
Moshe Dayan,
Palestine,
Quebec Conference,
Reginald Wingate,
Special Night Squads,
T.E. Lawrence,
Winston S. Churchill,
A Walking Tour of Winston Churchill’s Historic Whitehall
06
Oct
2020
The Churchill Project provides descriptions of the twelve most significant locations in Whitehall, London as they relate to Winston Churchill.
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Admiralty,
Admiralty Arch,
Battle of Trafalgar,
Board of Trade,
Cenotaph,
Colonial Office,
Corinthia Hotel,
Dardanelles,
David Lloyd George,
Duglas Haig,
Dundee,
Home Secretary,
Horatio Nelson,
King Charles I,
King Edward VII,
London,
Ministry of Defence,
Ministry of Munitons,
National Liberal Club,
Nelson's Column,
Old War Office,
Palace of Westminster,
Parliament,
Royal Navy,
Royal Navy Air Service,
Royal Scots Fusiliers,
T.E. Lawrence,
Trafalgar Square,
Westminster Abbey,
Whitehall,
Winston S. Churchill,
Gary Scott Smith on Churchill’s Duty and Destiny, Life, and Faith
03
Oct
2020
Sinking “Lusitania”: A Long-Lived Conspiracy Theory
24
Sep
2020
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History as Prologue: Winston Churchill and the Historian as Statesman
17
Sep
2020
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.
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David Lindsay Keir,
edmund burke,
Edward Gibbon,
George Santayana,
Harrow,
Henry Hallam,
J.H. Plumb,
Joseph Addison,
Josiah Leinbach,
Lady Randolph Churchill,
Lord Randolph Churchill,
Neville Chamberlain,
Sandhurst,
Thomas Babington Macaulay,
Tribe of Issachar,
Two-Power Standard,
William Shakespeare,
Winston S. Churchill,
Remembering Richard Haking: The General who Saved Churchill’s Life
10
Sep
2020
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
08
Sep
2020
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.
Winston Churchill and the Armenian Genocide, 1914-23
05
Sep
2020
1
Early in the 20th century, Armenian peoples suffered the greatest and bloodiest of all the great mass-slaughters which till then there was record.
Tags:
Adana massacre,
Armenia,
Battle of Ypres,
Chanak crisis,
chemical warfare,
David Lloyd George,
Enver Pasha,
Gallipoli,
Hamidian massacres,
League of Nations,
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk,
Ottoman Empire,
Paris Peace Conference,
Sir Henry Wilson,
Sultan Abdul Hamid II,
The Aftermath,
Theodore Roosevelt,
Treaty of Lausanne,
Treaty of Sèvres,
Turkey,
William Ewart Gladstone,
Winston S. Churchill,
woodrow wilson,
Young Turks,