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Great Contemporaries: Bernard Baruch
05
Sep
2016
Vigorous, handsome and colorful, Bernard M. Baruch was a wealthy American financier who advised nine U.S. presidents from Wilson to Johnson. From the mid-1920s he was Churchill’s oldest and closest American friend. Their long friendship, Baruch remarked, was “a source of inspiration and pleasure” which had “grown more rewarding with each passing year.”
“Churchill in the Trenches” – by Peter Apps
29
Aug
2016
“With Winston Churchill at the Front” – by Andrew Dewar Gibb
22
Aug
2016
Gibb’s original work, nine chapters and 112 pages, was a slender volume, notable as an early firsthand account of Churchill’s military sojourn after his famous fall from political power in 1915. This new edition is an odd but useful amalgamation of Gibb’s 1924 text with copious extractions or rewrites from Sir Martin Gilbert’s first volume (The Challenge of War) in the official biography, Winston S. Churchill.
“Pim and Churchill’s Map Room” – by John Potter
24
Jul
2016
This fine little book distills Captain Pim’s memoirs, which are lodged in the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland in Belfast. Expertly edited by John Potter, it offers charming vignettes of what it was like to work for Churchill, as Pim saw him on an almost daily basis and travelled with him to almost all the wartime conferences.
Winston Churchill and William Shakespeare
18
Jul
2016
In his book Churchill's Literary Allusions, Darrell Holley writes: "There is no English author whom Churchill alludes to as often as to William Shakespeare. Both by formal quotations, some quite lengthy, and by well-known phrases almost hidden in his text, Churchill makes allusion to many of Shakespeare's plays."
“Hero of the Empire” – by Candice Millard
18
Jul
2016
1
Millard's book covers one year in the life of Winston Churchill—1899—and argues that those twelve months were absolutely epicentral to the man he later became. It established his national fame, connected his fate to that of the British Empire, introduced him to key figures who were to loom large later in his life, and set him on the road to his phenomenally successful political career.
“Marshall: The Man of the Age” – edited by Mark Stoler & Daniel Holt
08
Jul
2016
George Marshall’s stature among Americans of the mid-twentieth century is easily forgotten today. He had his critics—the MacArthur men in the Army and, later, some rabid anti-communists—but, in his role as Army Chief of Staff and principal military advisor to President Roosevelt, he was acclaimed as the “organizer of victory” in World War II. In his Nobel Lecture, he acknowledged his “inability to express myself with the power and penetration of the great Churchill.”
“Churchill: The Wilderness Years”: Winston is Back, 1939
08
Jul
2016
1
Episode 8 of "The Wilderness Years" captures a dramatic scene from Churchill’s memoirs. Chamberlain, he wrote, “had scarcely ceased speaking when a strange, prolonged, wailing noise, afterwards to become familiar, broke upon the ear. My wife came into the room braced by the crisis [and] we made our way to the shelter assigned to us, armed with a bottle of brandy and other appropriate medical comforts.” There, to his astonishment, Churchill is cheered by Londoners.
Teasing Churchill at Teheran
01
Jul
2016
1
“The British Mad Dog” – by M.S. King
01
Jul
2016
2