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Tracking Churchill’s Famous Slogan, “You can always take one with you”
03
Apr
2020
I have often wondered however what would have happened if two hundred thousand German storm troops had actually established themselves ashore. The massacre would have been on both sides grim and great. There would have been neither mercy nor quarter. They would have used Terror, and we were prepared to go all lengths. I intended to use the slogan “You can always take one with you.” - Winston Churchill
Curtis Hooper: “A Visual Philosophy of Sir Winston Churchill”
30
Mar
2020
The series—a collection of twenty-eight original pieces—attempts to depict the many facets of Churchill’s complex character. The series covers Churchill’s early childhood all the way through his second term as prime minister in the 1950s. Diving into both the public and private side of Churchill’s life, the series balances Churchill’s professional years as a soldier and war correspondent, a writer, a rhetorician, and a statesman with his private interests as a painter, aviation enthusiast, horseman, father, and husband. Hooper offers a complete, yet often overlooked, picture of the national and international icon.
Revisiting “Induna”: The Ship that Carried Churchill into Fame
26
Mar
2020
1
"A delightful happenstance came my way in Australia recently, when I was asked if I were aware of the connection between Grafton, New South Wales, and my grandfather, Sir Winston Churchill. I was not, so he took me down to the River Clarence, and showed me the broken hulk of a ship called Induna. She was the coaster that transported young Winston from Lourenço Marques, Portuguese East Africa (now Maputo, Mozambique) to Durban, South Africa after his dramatic escape from the Boers in December 1899."
Clare Sheridan: “The nearest thing to a sister that Winston ever had.”
23
Mar
2020
He died in 1965 and Clare followed him five years later. Their relationship has been side-lined or ignored by many biographers more interested in politics than in Churchill’s private life. But the bust made by the “Obstreperous Anarchist” forever stands in the hallway of Chartwell. It is mute testimony to a family friendship that endured through tempestuous times.
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Clare Sheridan,
Dardanelles,
David Lloyd George,
David Stafford,
Felix Dzerzhinsky,
Freddie Guest,
Gallipoli,
George Slocombe,
Grigory Zinoviev,
Ian Hamilton,
Independent Labour Party,
Kemal Ataturk,
Lady Randolph Churchill,
Leon Trotsky,
Leonie Leslie,
Lev Kamenev,
Moreton Frewen,
Vernon Kell,
Vladimir Lenin,
William Norman Ewer,
William Sheridan,
Winston S. Churchill,
Churchill and the Channel Tunnel
18
Mar
2020
1
Churchill was an early and steady supporter of a Channel Tunnel, which was first proposed in 1751. For most of his life he joined in lively and almost continuous discussion of “a fixed link with the Continent.” Indeed, during the 1924-1929 Conservative government, Churchill was seen as “the leading political advocate of a tunnel.”
The Terror and Splendor of the Blitz, finely related by Erik Larson
18
Mar
2020
The Splendid and the Vile is the story of the London Blitz, from the moment that Winston Churchill became prime minister on 10 May 1940, until the Luftwaffe raid that destroyed the parts of the House of Commons exactly one year later, coincidentally on the same night that Rudolf Hess flew to Scotland.
Which Historical and Contemporary Figures were Churchill’s Inspirations?
16
Mar
2020
These are just a few of the classical authors Churchill read in his self-education as a young man. They form an adjunct to the more recent and direct inspirations, the figures of more recent centuries.
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Andrew Roberts,
Aristotle,
Bourke Cockran,
Cicero,
Duke of Marlborough,
Georges Clemenceau,
Great Contemporaries,
Horatio Nelson,
John Morley,
Justin Lyons,
Leo Strauss,
Lord Randolph Churchill,
Napoleon,
Paul Rahe,
Plato,
Richard M. Langworth,
Shakespeare,
Socrates,
Thucydides,
War of Spanish Succession,
Winston S. Churchill,
Xenophon,
Churchill and Bernard Shaw: A Curious Dichotomy, a Fictitious Exchange
07
Mar
2020
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Churchill’s Official Biography: Origin, Methodology and Concordance
06
Mar
2020
Never Flinch, Never Weary, 1951-1965 is the twenty-third volume of documents in the official biography of Winston Churchill. Together with the narrative texts, the work comprises thirty-one volumes in all. It is the last step in a journey that began over half a century ago, but prepared for decades earlier.
“Three Most Unlikely Musketeers”*: The Kremlin Letters
05
Mar
2020
For non-Russian-reading researchers, this book is indispensable. For aficionados of the history of the Second World War, it is a thought-provoking delight.
The Churchillian Wisdom of Professor Paul Addison
28
Feb
2020
1
Our grief and loss are deeply felt. Paul was a gentleman scholar: a man of strong convictions, who never let them interfere with his search for truth. Hagiography is fatal. Honesty matters. Those were his cardinal precepts.
Above all, he left a corpus of excellence from which young people will always learn things worth knowing. His work abides, and as Churchill said, a man never dies as long as he is remembered. All who love history will forever remember Paul Addison.
David Low: The Cartoonist Churchill Loved—Despite Everything
22
Feb
2020
2
“Low is the greatest of our modern cartoonists,” wrote Winston Churchill in his delightful essay “Cartoons and Cartoonists.” He praised “the vividness of his political conceptions,” and declared Low a singular artist: “He possesses what few cartoonists have—a grand technique of draughtsmanship. Low is a master of black and white. He is the Charlie Chaplin of caricature, and tragedy and comedy are the same to him.”