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Great Contemporaries: Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman
05
Jan
2021
2
Pamela Harriman, said Jacques Chirac, was “elegance itself...a peerless diplomat.” That old Francophile, her father-in-law, would have smiled.
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Averell Harriman,
Caspar Weinberger,
David Margesson,
Everard Digby,
Gunpowder Plot,
Jacques Chirac,
Jesse Helms. Paul H. Robinson Jr.,
John Churchill,
Legion d’Honneur,
Leland Hayward,
Minterne Magna,
Norman Ornstein,
Pamela Harriman,
Richard Holbrooke,
Richard M. Langworth,
Thomas Maier,
Winston Churchill (grandson),
Winston S. Churchill,
The Todman Duology: Plus ça Change, The Churchill Narrative Survives
31
Dec
2020
Scholarship accumulates and sources multiply, Todman writes. The perspective of Churchill’s memoirs persists—if sometimes heavily qualified.
A Vital Medical Contribution by Doctors Vale and Scadding
29
Dec
2020
Vale and Scadding offer a vital account of Churchill's medical history which expands our knowledge and sets the record straight.
The Bumptious Politician’s Guide to Churchill Myths and their Making
24
Dec
2020
“The Churchill Myths” is not about Churchill. It is about how politicians the authors don’t like wrap themselves in Churchill mythology.
Great Contemporaries: Alan Brooke, the Thoroughbred Professional
19
Dec
2020
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
17
Dec
2020
2
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.
Stephen Wynn on the Sweet and Sour of Churchill’s Decision-making
15
Dec
2020
Despite inadequate sourcework, Wynn takes a human view of Churchill, and so writes a book examining the “flawed decisions” of the “Greatest Briton.”
Paul Courtenay 1934-2020: No Better Definition of a Pro
13
Dec
2020
1
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
12
Dec
2020
Churchill’s political imagination allowed him to portray the implausibility of reality: a crucially different turn of history at Gettysburg.
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Abraham Lincoln,
Archduke Franz Ferdinand,
Arthur Balfour,
Battle of Gettysburg,
Benjamin Disraeli,
Czar Nicholas II,
Emperor Franz Joseph,
First World War,
Geroge Pickett,
Jan Bloch,
Jeb Stuart,
Jefferson Davis,
Kaiser Wilhelm II,
Paul K. Alkon,
Robert E. Lee,
Scribner’s Magazine,
Shelby Foote,
Theodore Roosevelt,
William Edwart Gladstone,
Winston S. Churchill,
woodrow wilson,
“Winston Churchill: A Life in the News,” by Richard Toye
07
Dec
2020
2
Churchill and the media is a larger story than author Toye tells, and the omissions are as disappointing as the assertions are disconcerting.
Sir Winston Churchill’s Three Outstanding War Books
03
Dec
2020
Churchill's best war books: “fascinating products of the human spirit, epic tales filled with the depravities, miseries, and glories of man.”
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Anthony Montague Browne,
Battle of Omdurman,
David Lloyd George,
Edward Grey,
Edward Marsh,
First World War,
Herbert Kitchener,
J.H. Plumb,
John Keegan,
Manfred Weidhorn,
Passchendaele,
Richard M. Langworth,
Robert Pilpel,
Robert Rhodes James,
Rudi Giuliani,
Second World War,
Somme,
Sudan,
Thucydides,
Winston S. Churchill,
Churchill in 1943 on National Health Insurance and Taxation
30
Nov
2020
1
Churchill believed medical advances were “the inheritance of all,” and advocated insurance against illness; he was also mindful of its cost to taxpayers.