Churchill Favored a United Europe, Provided It Didn’t Contain Britain

The premise advanced by Felix Klos is all wrong. Winston Churchill wanted Britain to be “with” Europe, but not a part “of” it.

David Owen with his government experience provides insight, though not enough of it, on War Cabinet machinations in the power struggle of May 1940.

Churchill on Fisher: “I am glad we were friends in the end.” Was his love for the admiral an error of judgment? Barry Gough has the answers.

Encounters between glittering literati: “To do good is noble,” Twain told young Winston. “To teach others to do good is nobler, and no trouble.”

The “book to go with the film” by Andrew McCarten falls short of the movie. It supposes Churchill was an ordinary man. In the movie, he is anything but.

After more than our share of historical clangers recently, Churchill admirers can welcome all this movie offers. Unlike any recent production, it genuinely honors the heroic memory. And that’s a special thing these days. Give Gary Oldman, the cast and producers a tip of the hat.

The allegations that Winston Churchill was unfaithful while on holiday in the South of France in the mid-1930s have been knocking around for eighty years, with nothing substantial to back them up, and, having been researching a biography of Churchill for the past four years, I do not believe it.

In his review of "Churchill Warrior," Dr. Sterling touches on how Brian Lavery balances conciseness with a gripping narrative.

Michael McMenamin praises Shakespeare's "Six Minutes In May" for its coherent, fascinating account of Churchill's rise to power in conjunction with Hitler's aggression in the West.

At Hillsdale College we have been thinking about the greatest of all wars, the Second World War. If we study that war and the actions of its profoundest statesman, we can find some lessons to guide us today.

In another age when even his marriage is questioned by the ignorant, Lady Diana’s words are worth remembering. Few who knew Clementine and Winston spoke better of it. Little was said about it in their time, she writes,“because it was too happy to be heard of.” Her essay corrected that lapse. It first appeared after Sir Winston’s death in The Atlantic. Her son, Lord Norwich, had not seen it and was pleased at the discovery. I have inserted her charming picture of a Chartwell weekend from her first volume of memoirs.

Jacky Fisher was not finished. He was restless, an agitator. His dismay over the conduct of the naval war brought him closer to Churchill, and soon the two were on favourable terms, locked in a curious destiny. The press baron George Riddell wrote: “Fisher, the Duchess, and Winston are now bosom friends.”