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“Churchill, Roosevelt and Company: Studies in Character and Statecraft” – by Lewis E. Lehrman
06
Sep
2017
Lehrman examines Churchill and Roosevelt through the teams they assembled: advisers, political officials and military leaders who worked for victory even as they argued over war strategy. His is not a history of the war, but an evaluation of people, decisions and events, a victory followed by a lost peace and decades of Cold War. A useful chronology and extensive endnotes, bibliography, and index are complemented by portrait photographs used as chapter headings, and two key appendices: a 1940 Roosevelt fireside chat, and Churchill’s victory speech in 1945.
Nolan’s Dunkirk: “Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans”
07
Aug
2017
Dunkirk, produced by Christopher Nolan, sets out to portray the 1940 rescue of the Allied armies from the clutches of Hitler’s Wehrmacht in terms of courage, heroism, survival, and a few examples of cowardice. In that he succeeds admirably. In terms of context—in conveying an understanding of what Dunkirk was about—he fails utterly.
Lessons in Statesmanship: Exchanging Classified Information in Wartime
17
May
2017
It is not unprecedented for a head of state of a democratic nation to give classified information in wartime to the head of a despotism, including the Russian or the Soviet government. On April 3, 1941, Winston Churchill sent Joseph Stalin a message containing classified information for the purpose of informing him of German troop movements and military intentions.
Fake News from the Huffington Post
02
May
2017
Fake History in “Churchill,” starring Brian Cox
01
May
2017
26
Well-acted with good photography and music, "Churchill" attempts an insight into psychology at a crucial stage of the Second World War. The only problem with the movie is that it gets absolutely everything wrong. Never in the course of movie-making have so many specious errors been made in so long a film by so few writers.
Fake History Abounds in the film, “Viceroy’s House”
29
Apr
2017
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Churchill and the Baltic, Part 2
28
Apr
2017
Churchill, Refugees, and Aliens
27
Apr
2017
During the war, Britain had a fairly strict internment policy for incoming foreigners. Churchill certainly acknowledged the wisdom of carefully vetting incomers for enemy agents. However, Churchill quickly began to deplore the broad policy of interning refugees and foreigners, and firmly believed that no one should be imprisoned without just cause.
Thoughts on National Churchill Day, 9 April 2017
23
Apr
2017
No Panic over UFO Sightings
23
Apr
2017
Churchill and the Baltic, Part 1
23
Apr
2017
Indian People Receive Post-truth History about Winston Churchill
23
Apr
2017
2
India is about to attain economic superpower status and it’s unbecoming for the country still to try to cling to victimhood status. The Times of India has had to run headlines such as: "Don’t Blame West for Molestations, Rapes Here." (The paper also has adverts for "upper-caste brides" in its lonely hearts column.) With regard to Churchill, it’s the sign of a self-confident people that they can ascribe greatness to those who disliked them. We Britons do that for the anglophobic Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon Bonaparte and Charles de Gaulle.