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Churchill picked up the term “black dog,” a commonplace description by Victorian nannies for out-of-sorts children, from his childhood nurse, Mrs. Everest. Over the years, writers have made the most of it, beginning with psychiatrist Anthony Storr’s essay “The Man,” in the 1969 collection, Churchill: Four Faces and the Man. Conjecture since has led all the way to the theory that Churchill had a bipolar disorder. But none of these arguments are considered in any detail here.

A breakdown of Winston Churchill's Official Biography, published by Hillsdale College Press and currently edited by Dr. Larry P. Arnn.

Mike Levine presents an illustrated WW2 chronology and offers an excellent in-depth biography of Churchill with photographs covering his life. His book includes individual stories of various generals and their encounters with the prime minister.

Isaiah Friedman, professor emeritus at Israel’s Ban-Gurion University, joins David Fromkin in reminding us how much more there was to know of the Arabic and Islamic world than the British and Allied powers were aware of or willing to admit in those frenzied and important times.

​The pro-Zionist Meinertzhagen nursed a mutual dislike for the pro-Arab Lawrence, but the two were alike in making enemies by challenging the status quo among the military and officialdom. He was a brave and valiant officer who often gave Churchill sound advice.

I have sent a few emails asking why Churchill sold Eastern Europe to Stalin. ​Eastern Europeans do not look admiringly at Mr. Churchill...like my father who fought with the British, in his Polish uniform.

What we have here is an elegant, landscape-format collection of photographs by Frank Dementi, of the Eisenhower-Churchill Virginia visit in March 1946, after Churchill’s famous “Iron Curtain” speech in Fulton, Missouri. Dementi, a distinguished press photographer, also snapped the 1943 Williamsburg visit of Clementine and Mary Churchill, and some of those photos are included. Dementi’s son Brian, who published the book as a tribute to his father, who would be proud.

The importance of Churchill’s declaration that World War II was avoidable must not be underestimated—it lies at the core of his statesmanship.

Students and photo researchers who follow Churchill’s dictum to “never give in” might be inspired by my own story to keep digging, and bringing the truth to light.

The 153 pages of text are backed up by sixty-two pages of notes and a twenty-nine-page bibliography. A solid and long overdue scholarly exercise, it will be read mainly by specialist historians—especially since the publisher’s editing process did little to loosen the dense language, appropriate to a dissertation but a barrier to anyone but specialists. And then there is the outrageous price—alas all too common with works of scholarship.

When King Peter II of Yugoslavia wanted to marry Princess Alexandra of Greece, Churchill defended the marriage but the Foreign Office had a problem with it. Although in this case Churchill won, Peter II was deposed by Tito’s Communist assembly in 1945.