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Winston Churchill on American Thanksgiving, 1944
25
Nov
2020
21 November 2020: The 400th Anniversary of the Mayflower Compact
21
Nov
2020
On the Mayflower, 1620: “In the presence of God, and one of another, [we] covenant and combine ourselves…for our better ordering and preservation…”
Hitler’s “Tet Offensive”: Churchill and the Austrian Anschluss, 1938
05
Nov
2020
1
Breathless media admiration of Hitler’s Anschluss obscured German military deficiencies that might have mattered if the democracies had stood firm.
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Adolf Hitler,
Alexander Lassner,
Anschluss,
Case Otto,
Erich Raeder,
Geoffrey Dawson,
Hapsburg Empire,
Hearst press,
Hermann Goering,
Joachim von Ribbentrop,
Kurt von Schuschnigg,
League of Nations,
Little Entente,
Neville Chamberlain,
Richard M. Langworth,
Unity Mitford,
Versailles Treaty,
Werner von Blomberg,
Winston S. Churchill,
“Angel of Deliverance”: Churchill’s Tributes to Joan of Arc
02
Nov
2020
1
Despite his encomiums to Joan, Churchill rated Napoleon higher, with Georges Clemenceau a close third—and, a bit farther down, de Gaulle.
“Shall We All Commit Suicide?”: Churchill’s Scientific Imagination – Part 2
31
Oct
2020
Churchill’s affinity for scientific techniques, themes and writers significantly proclaims his openness toward the future—and its perils.
Churchill on the V1: “Mass Effects Overwhelm Detached Sentiment”
27
Oct
2020
Churchill’s comments on the V1 reveal a rare quality: a genuine appreciation of enemy cleverness, albeit overwhelmed by “mass effects.”
“Shall We All Commit Suicide?”: Churchill’s Scientific Imagination – Part 1
24
Oct
2020
Churchill’s imagination in engaging with science and its potential consequences enabled him to confront vast change between the Victorian and Atomic eras.
Great Contemporaries: Orde Wingate – “A Man of the Highest Quality”
08
Oct
2020
Wingate “lives on in the long-range penetration groups, and all these intricate and daring air and military operations.” —WSC
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Abyssinia,
Alan Brooke,
American Air Commandos,
Archibald Wavell,
Bradley P. Tolppanen,
Burma Campaign,
Chaim Weismann,
Chindits,
David Ben-Gurion,
East African Campaign,
Gideon Force,
Haile Selassie,
James Wolfe,
Joseph Stillwell,
Louis Mountbatten,
Moshe Dayan,
Palestine,
Quebec Conference,
Reginald Wingate,
Special Night Squads,
T.E. Lawrence,
Winston S. Churchill,
A Walking Tour of Winston Churchill’s Historic Whitehall
06
Oct
2020
The Churchill Project provides descriptions of the twelve most significant locations in Whitehall, London as they relate to Winston Churchill.
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Admiralty,
Admiralty Arch,
Battle of Trafalgar,
Board of Trade,
Cenotaph,
Colonial Office,
Corinthia Hotel,
Dardanelles,
David Lloyd George,
Duglas Haig,
Dundee,
Home Secretary,
Horatio Nelson,
King Charles I,
King Edward VII,
London,
Ministry of Defence,
Ministry of Munitons,
National Liberal Club,
Nelson's Column,
Old War Office,
Palace of Westminster,
Parliament,
Royal Navy,
Royal Navy Air Service,
Royal Scots Fusiliers,
T.E. Lawrence,
Trafalgar Square,
Westminster Abbey,
Whitehall,
Winston S. Churchill,
Gary Scott Smith on Churchill’s Duty and Destiny, Life, and Faith
03
Oct
2020
Smith is clear that Churchill was a believer in a faith. And that faith was at the heart of his appeal to the British people in the Second World War.
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7th Earl of Shaftesbury,
Alistair Campbell,
Andrew Roberts,
athens,
Book of Common Prayer,
Brendan Bracken,
Gallipoli,
Gary Scott Smith,
Hensley Henson,
James Welldon,
Jeffrey Fisher,
King James Bible,
Margaret Thatcher,
Nevil Schute,
Robert Blake,
Robin Brodhurst,
Tony Blair,
William Temple,
Winston S. Churchill,
Sinking “Lusitania”: A Long-Lived Conspiracy Theory
24
Sep
2020
5
The first chapter of Nigel Hamilton's book, The Mantle of Command, states that the Lusitania was an “ill-fated American liner.” He leaves the impression that Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, had played a role in the sinking in order to get the United States into World War I.
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,