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Great Contemporaries: Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman
Pamela Harriman, said Jacques Chirac, was “elegance itself...a peerless diplomat.” That old Francophile, her father-in-law, would have smiled.
Great Contemporaries: Alan Brooke, the Thoroughbred Professional
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
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.
Paul Courtenay 1934-2020: No Better Definition of a Pro
Paul Courtenay was indispensable, a Churchill encyclopedia. But he'd never say "I told you so." Even if he HAD told us so.
Churchill’s Alternative History: Robert E. Lee’s Triumph at Gettysburg
Churchill’s political imagination allowed him to portray the implausibility of reality: a crucially different turn of history at Gettysburg.
Sir Winston Churchill’s Three Outstanding War Books
Churchill's best war books: “fascinating products of the human spirit, epic tales filled with the depravities, miseries, and glories of man.”
Churchill in 1943 on National Health Insurance and Taxation
Churchill believed medical advances were “the inheritance of all,” and advocated insurance against illness; he was also mindful of its cost to taxpayers.