“Surely Churchill Said That?” The Expanding Lexicon of the Fake Quote

Why invent a quote? Perhaps in the hope that “the specter of Winston will pause to embrace the willful quoter and smoke a cigar with him.”

Jordan may have been created with the stroke of a pen, but Churchill didn’t quite say that, and his creation has now survived for 100 years.

"The civilized combatant is obliged, at peril of being classed a savage, to avoid unnecessary cruelty to his enemy. Unless there has been unnecessary cruelty, whatever the suffering, there can be no barbarity. If there has been unnecessary cruelty, all who are in any way responsible for it are infected with the taint of inhumanity." —Churchill, 1901.

Dr. Field promises an array of obscure facts, and certainly delivers, to the point where one wonders where some of them came from.

Churchillians in Portland, Oregon have Sir Winston on their minds; their questions are pertinent to our understanding of him, and ourselves.

Confronted with the seeming impossible in the Middle East, Wavell acquitted himself well and was promoted as often as he was sacked.

In this detailed work, Bungay contributes to the historiography of the great air war, notwithstanding several highly questionable conclusions.

After visiting WSC in bed, while mopping a sign of Toby’s affections off his head, Butler sighed patiently: “The things I do for England.”

The River War is remarkable because of its author, length, content and audacity. The author was already a rising political star, having run and lost for Parliament. At 962 pages, the book analyzed the Anglo-Egyptian reconquest of the Sudan, a conflict largely forgotten today—except for its dramatic concluding event, one of history’s last great cavalry charges, in which Churchill himself participated.

Well-researched and accurate, the Whitworth Churchill Quiz book offers a serious test of Churchillian knowledge and a chance to learn more.

Josh Ireland begins with potted inaccuracies, but the quickly picks up with a deft, thoughtful account of a short, bittersweet saga.

Lifetime friend and trusted collaborator, Louis Spears knew France and the French as few Britons, serving faithfully in peace and war.