Kluger and Evans on the Atlantic Charter: Less Than Meets the Eye

Kluger and Evans offer happy little book with nice essays, but for an understanding of the Atlantic Charter we must look elsewhere.

Churchill regarded Paul Reynaud as a fighting Frenchman overwhelmed by circumstance. Reynaud held Churchill his country’s liberator.

His critics say: Well, if Churchill was not a fascist himself, he sympathized with them. As so often, investigation of what he actually said leads us to entirely different conclusions.

The search for a Churchill maxim on understanding the enemy leads us to an example of Churchill’s fine writing in “The World Crisis.”

The Connoisseur’s Guide dates to a nostalgic time when Churchill was almost universally admired and his books sought by avid collectors.

“My Visit to Russia” portrayed a devastated land, along with many vignettes of people determined to survive.

Churchill achieved a rare synthesis between the quest for philosophic truth, adherence to Christian teaching, and advancing a particular political community.

Churchill’s vivid accounts of Clemenceau reflected, though hardly created, his own persona. He was The Tiger’s leading Anglo-Saxon student.

Rather than “savages, rascals and rapscallions,” rather than "a daughter State," Churchill saw the Irish as “a parent nation.”

Ronald trawls the sources: Churchill “would blow up the American Embassy and say it was the Germans,” wrote Kennedy. But... “maybe I do him an injustice.”

Sarah: A bittersweet life. Determined to tell us everything, Brooke overloads an interesting narrative with excessive minutiae.

A mine for research, but also readable in its own right, “Shadows of Victory” takes us from triumph to tragedy at the end of World War II.