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Watch Andrew Roberts, author of Masters and Commanders, speak on "Churchill and the Historians" at Hillsdale College's National Leadership Seminar "Churchill's True Greatness: Lessons for Today" in Denver, CO, April 21.

Watch Barry Singer, author of Churchill Style: The Art of Being Winston Churchill, speak at Hillsdale College's National Leadership Seminar "Churchill's True Greatness: Lessons for Today" in Denver, CO, April 20-21.

One the tragedies of Churchill’s career was the failed 1915 assault on the Dardanelles. Had Churchill, our correspondent asked, personally seen the Dardanelles beforehand? The short answer is yes, but the long answer sheds fresh light on an important aspect of Churchill’s character.

Reviewing a recent book, The Churchill Factor, by London Mayor Boris Johnson, a reviewer repeated a widespread canard that Winston Churchill caused the Bengal Famine. This allegation false; Churchill did everything he could in the midst of world war to save the Bengalis, and without him the famine would have been worse.

What were Churchill's remarks on the death of Mustapha Kemal (Ataturk)?

As the publisher of the Official Biography of Winston Churchill, Hillsdale College plans to host a celebration on April 9 in honor of national Winston Churchill Day!

In summer 1940, as war raged, the British government sent several hundred children, including 3-year-old Martin Gilbert, to safety in Canada. The children berthed aboard the Duchess of Bedford in a 50-ship convoy, and after the destroyer escort turned back, the convoy was attacked by the Germans and five ships sank.

Winston Churchill was famed for his prescience, though of course he liked to emphasize the predictions which turned out to be right. “I always avoid prophesying beforehand,” he said in a Cairo press conference on 1 February 1943, “because it is much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.”

Sir Martin Gilbert delivered this speech at Hillsdale’s campus on September 10, 2001 as part of a CCA seminar titled “One of Freedom’s Finest Hours: Statesmanship and Soldiership in World War II.”

While Churchill and Hitler never met, they had a near encounter at a Munich hotel in the 1930's. During the evening Churchill dined with Ernst Hanfstaengl, Hitler’s foreign press secretary, to whom Churchill made the famous remark: "Tell your boss from me that anti-Semitism may be a good starter, but it is a bad sticker."