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Gary Scott Smith on Churchill’s Duty and Destiny, Life, and Faith
03
Oct
2020
Sinking RMS Lusitania: A Long-Lived Conspiracy Theory
24
Sep
2020
9
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
1
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
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.
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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,
In Defense of Graham Sutherland and his “Infamous” Churchill Portrait
03
Sep
2020
9
Today, we need not flinch from the image. Sutherland saw a man behind the legend, reached deep, and gave us the man. The legend needed no portrait.
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Aneurin Bevan,
Anthony Montague Browne,
Charles Moran,
Churchill College,
Clementine Churchill,
Dave Turrell,
David McFall,
Dwight Eisenhower,
Georgy Malenkov,
Grace Hamblin,
Graham Sutherland,
Herbert Gunn,
Jennie Lee,
John Charmley,
King George VI,
Mary SOames,
Max Beaverbrook,
Omdurman,
Shane Leslie,
Somerset Maugham,
Winston S. Churchill,
Winston Churchill’s Statesmanship before the First World War, 1912-14
28
Aug
2020
Prudence, Aristotle’s primary quality of statesmen was well demonstrated by Churchill at the Admiralty in the years leading up to the First World War.
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Alfred von Tirpitz,
Aristotle,
Barbara Tuchman,
Battle of Jutland,
Benjamin Disraeli,
David Lloyd George,
Edward Grey,
First World War,
George Callaghan,
H.H. Asquith,
High Seas Fleet,
John Burns,
John Jellicoe,
John Morley,
Joshua Waechter,
Lord Salisbury,
Patrick Buchanan,
Royal Navy,
Triple Entente,
William Ewart Gladstone,
Winston S. Churchill,
How Winston Churchill Lost the 1945 British General Election
27
Aug
2020
4
Elizabeth Layton in “Darkest Hour”: The Annexe and War Rooms
24
Aug
2020
Questions on the role of secretary Elizabeth Layton in the 2017 film, and the Annexe where Churchill really ran the wartime government.
Witold Pilecki: A Deserving Addition to the Roles of Honor
23
Aug
2020
3
The main concern for Pilecki at Auschwitz was the fate of Poles, but in describing that of the Jews he asked a stark question: “Were we all people”?
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Allied War Declaration of 1942,
Anne Frank,
Auschwitz,
Auschwitz Protocols,
Bergen-Belsen,
Bermuda Refugee Conference,
Charles Portal,
Esther Gilbert,
Evian Conference,
Franklin Roosevelt,
Holocaust,
Jack Fairweather,
Jan Karski,
Józef Garliński. Witold Pilecki,
Kazimierz Sosnkowski,
Martin Gilbert,
Polish Underground,
Pope Pius XII,
Richard Cohen,
Stefan Rowecki,
Stephen Wise,
Winston S. Churchill,
Wladyslaw Sikorski,
Yad Vashem,
“Grand Improvisation”: Derek Leebaert on the “Special Relationship”
19
Aug
2020
During the war Churchill told a general: “Improvise and dare…He improvise and dore.” Leebaert sees America’s walk to global leadership in much the same way.