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2015
Stephen Bungay Adds New Scholarship to the Battle of Britain
15
Jul
2021
Winston Churchill: A Passion for Painting – by Edwina Sandys
16
Apr
2018
Winston Churchill as Sancho Panza?
02
Oct
2017
“The Grand Deception” – by Tom Curran
14
Sep
2017
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By CHRISTOPHER M. BELL
"The premise of the work is hardly original: Churchill, we are told, was personally and solely responsible for both the ill-fated Dardanelles offensive and the disastrous Gallipoli campaign that followed from it. This charge has haunted Churchill since 1915. But according to Curran, historians writing since the late 1960s—when British official records were opened to public scrutiny —have not recognized the full extent of Churchill’s culpability. Curran’s mission is to set the record straight."
“Churchill: The Life” – by Max Arthur
10
Feb
2017
By CHRISTOPHER HARMON
When a photo editor considers creating a Churchill “pictorial biography,” is he ever deterred by the stacks of just such books accumulating along shelves of libraries since the 1940s? One cannot be sure, but Max Arthur has been “toiling in the Churchill vineyard” for many years. There must be a hundred picture books dedicated to Churchill. After all, he lived his entire life in the era of the camera. In this new volume, about 260 pages hold photographs, a few in color. The large format gives great impact to many we’ve seen before, but the print quality, the lighting, is enhanced.
“Churchill, Kitchener and Lloyd George” – by Steve Cliffe
09
Jan
2017
By PATRICK J. GARRITY
Journalist Stephen Cliffe has assembled a small volume that surveys the lives and careers of three World War I British leaders. Churchill may have been given pride of place in the book title because of his later prominence, or for alphabetic order; but in fact their relative importance in World War I was exactly the opposite.
“Churchill in the Trenches” – by Peter Apps
29
Aug
2016
By WILLIAM JOHN SHEPHERD
Though it relates the familiar anecdotes of Churchill's military service, Peter App's self-published ebook ultimately relies too much on other sources, and suffers from a lack of editing or editorial content. It is, to paraphrase Churchill, a modest book, with much to be modest about.
“The Maisky Diaries” – edited by Gabriel Gorodetsky
23
May
2016
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By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Maisky was fortunate. Though recalled from London in mid-1943 and retired in 1945, he did not suffer the fate of so many Soviet diplomats. He was arrested in 1953, and Stalin’s death may have saved his life. He was released from prison in 1955, and died in 1975 aged 91. He wrote five volumes of memoirs, discreet and judicious, of course. Now thanks to Gabriel Gorodetsky he gets full vindication: his every thought is revealed.
“Winston’s Island” – by Anthony Churchill
12
May
2016
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh has the first copy. The Duke of Marlborough has the second, and Sir Winston Churchill’s great-grandson Randolph (who wrote the foreword) ordered eight as Christmas presents. You should have one, if you are a total-immersion Churchillian with a penchant for the extraordinary, for Winston’s Island, the Isle of Wight, has its unique claim to a place in the saga.
No More Champagne – by David Lough
25
Mar
2016
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