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“It will always be a mystery why a few bombastic speeches have been enough to wash the bloodstains off Churchill’s racist hands.” This was how Shashi Tharoor, a successful and popular Indian politician, concluded his recent op-ed for The Washington Post. Tharoor began his piece with the sensational claim that Churchill was a mass murderer in the vein of Hitler and Stalin. One would expect such statements to have a mountain of evidence behind them. There is a mountain of evidence on these and similar issues, but from even the briefest expedition up the slopes one will see Tharoor’s arguments for what they are – revisionist, manufactured history.

Among British generals, Slim ranks with Wellington. His courageous Indian, African and British troops earned Winston Churchill's highest accolades.

Ironically, if not iconically, both were struck down in the midst of triumph: Churchill by the electors, Lincoln by a bullet. “In war you can only be killed once,” Churchill said, “but in politics many times.”

In this private article, The Dream, not published until after his death, Sir Winston reveals much about his father and himself.

The Dream revisits the relationship between Winston and his father Lord Randolph from the perspective of an older, more experienced Winston. The result is poignant, nuanced, and ironic, and allows the reader a unique glimpse into Winston’s complicated view of his father.

A series of papers and arguments concerning Churchill’s attitude toward integration and unity in Europe in the wake of World War II.

The premise advanced by Felix Klos is all wrong. Winston Churchill wanted Britain to be “with” Europe, but not a part “of” it.

An enquiry into Churchill's health and illnesses. Mainly, his treatment was conventional: "One does not make therapeutic experiments on the Prime Minister."

David Owen with his government experience provides insight, though not enough of it, on War Cabinet machinations in the power struggle of May 1940.

The success of the movie “Darkest Hour” has prompted an outbreak of Churchill calumny by writers who feed off each other. The Star offers a mostly familiar litany.

Churchill on Fisher: “I am glad we were friends in the end.” Was his love for the admiral an error of judgment? Barry Gough has the answers.

Encounters between glittering literati: “To do good is noble,” Twain told young Winston. “To teach others to do good is nobler, and no trouble.”