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Churchill in “Punch”: His Fanciful Hats Helped Fashion His Image
24
Feb
2022
Great Contemporaries, Clemenceau (3): How the Tiger Inspired Churchill
24
Feb
2022
Churchill saw in Clemenceau the importance of projecting the right mood in a crisis. He remembered the particular words Clemenceau had tried out to him, before exclaiming them in the French parliament: “I will fight in front of Paris; I will fight in Paris; I will fight behind Paris.” In 1940, Churchill adopted the Tiger’s trope: “Clemenceau was quite right. The only thing that mattered was to beat the Germans.
Churchill for Today: What He Thought and Said about Terrorism (Part 1)
22
Feb
2022
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Churchill: "What I mean by frightfulness is the inflicting of great slaughter or massacre upon a particular crowd of people, with the intention of terrorizing not merely the rest of the crowd, but the whole district or the whole country. We cannot admit this doctrine in any form. Frightfulness is not a remedy known to the British pharmacopoeia.”
“Munich—The Edge of War”: A Fine Portrayal of Chamberlain, Less So of Reality
14
Feb
2022
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Great Contemporaries: Georges Clemenceau (2), The Statesman
10
Feb
2022
“He represented the French people risen against tyrants—tyrants of the mind, tyrants of the soul, tyrants of the body; foreign tyrants, domestic tyrants, swindlers, humbugs, grafters, traitors, invaders, defeatists—all lay within the bound of the Tiger; and against them the Tiger waged inexorable war. Anti-clerical, anti-monarchist, anti-Communist, anti-German—in all this he represented the dominant spirit of France.”
The Atomic Bomb and the Special Relationship: Part 2
08
Feb
2022
Sara Reguer: A Conversation on Churchill and the Middle East, 1919-1922
07
Feb
2022
Would the Royal Family and Churchill Evacuate if the Germans Invaded?
01
Feb
2022
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The Atomic Bomb and the Special Relationship: Part 1
01
Feb
2022
Kluger and Evans on the Atlantic Charter: Less Than Meets the Eye
25
Jan
2022
Great Contemporaries: Paul Reynaud, Some Answers and a Question
25
Jan
2022
“Law Giver” Mussolini: Churchill’s Quotation as Used and Abused
06
Jan
2022