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King's self-published, print-on-demand paperback, The British Mad Dog: Debunking the Myth of Winston Churchill, needs some debunking of its own.

Britain’s surrender of military parity with Germany is nowhere better illustrated than through these episodes recalling the events of 1937-38.

Churchill's sense of duty was powerful. By chance, researching his activities in 1921, we came across a poignant example of Churchill’s willingness to serve his country, even in the face of personal tragedy.

Churchill's "The Story of the Malakand Field Force" was reprinted in 1989 for the first time since 1915. This and later editions offer a reasonably faithful text for modern readers.

Flying Peril: The threat of a German air force superior to Britain’s, denied for years by British leaders, proved only too true. This fifth episode of “The Wilderness Years” introduces two of the people who, at the risk of their careers, provided Churchill with secret information on German rearmament.

There is a fascinating book to be written about Winston Churchill’s relationship with the concept of a United Europe. Unfortunately, for all its hype, Felix Klos has written only the first part of it, and not, in fact, the most important part either.

HMS Enchantress was Churchill’s personal transport as First Lord of the Admiralty, 1911-14. Like most of his luxuries, it served also as a focus for work. During his time aboard the vessel, Churchill would visit hundreds of naval establishments and ships in the British Isles and the Mediterranean.

Despite political differences, Beaverbrook and Churchill enjoyed a long friendship that survived its share of ups and downs. “Some people take drugs,” Churchill said. “I take Max.”

In Munich on 30 August 1932, six months before Hitler took power in Germany, Winston Churchill came as close as he ever would to meeting Hitler face to face, amid sobering scenes of marching, chanting brownshirts singing Die Horst Wessel Lied.

Churchill’s Marlborough: His Life and Times is more than a biography; it is a masterful illustration of statesmanship. In addition to his depiction of his ancestor John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough, Churchill discusses the merits of Marlborough's contemporary, Pope Innocent XI. In Churchill’s presentation, Innocent’s ability to see beyond facile religious resemblance and shape his actions with prudence and principle elevates him to the company of statesmen.

The greatest sin of modern statesman, Maisky ruminated in 1936 “is vacillation and ambiguity of thought and action. This is the weakness which before long may land us into war” (67). His words can still be applied to certain modern statesmen.

Avoid telling people “I told you so,” said Churchill, who resisted “rubbing it in,” even when he was proved right.