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2019
Eccentric to a Fault: The Field Collection of Churchill “Stories”
05
Aug
2021
By ANTOINE CAPET
Dr. Field promises an array of obscure facts, and certainly delivers, to the point where one wonders where some of them came from.
Adrian Phillips Unmasks an Appeasement Architect in the 1930s
19
Jun
2021
Witold Pilecki: A Deserving Addition to the Roles of Honor
23
Aug
2020
3
By RICHARD COHEN and RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
The main concern for Pilecki at Auschwitz was the fate of Poles, but in describing that of the Jews he asked a stark question: “Were we all people”?
Tags:
Allied War Declaration of 1942,
Anne Frank,
Auschwitz,
Auschwitz Protocols,
Bergen-Belsen,
Bermuda Refugee Conference,
Charles Portal,
Esther Gilbert,
Evian Conference,
Franklin Roosevelt,
Holocaust,
Jack Fairweather,
Jan Karski,
Józef Garliński. Witold Pilecki,
Kazimierz Sosnkowski,
Martin Gilbert,
Polish Underground,
Pope Pius XII,
Richard Cohen,
Stefan Rowecki,
Stephen Wise,
Winston S. Churchill,
Wladyslaw Sikorski,
Yad Vashem,
Hillsdale College’s Official Biography: A Reader’s Appreciation
31
Jul
2020
By DAVE TURRELL
The Biography “is true, insofar as diligence and research can establish truth…. All an author can offer is a fragment of reality—that, and the hope that it will endure.” —William Manchester
“Never Flinch”…the last of The Churchill Documents brings the saga full circle
23
Jul
2020
1
By KLAUS LARRES
Never Flinch, Never Weary chronicles a time when mankind stood “uncertainly poised between world catastrophe and a golden age.”
Tags:
Anthon Nutting,
Anthony Eden,
Bermuda Conference,
Dien Bien Phu,
Dwight Eisenhower,
European Coal and Steel Community,
European Economic Community,
Gamal Abdel Nasser,
Georgy Malenkov,
Harold Macmillan,
John Foster Dulles,
King Farouk,
Klaus Larres,
Larry Arnn,
Martin Gilbert,
Queen Elizabeth II,
Rab Butler,
Vyacheslav Molotov,
“Churchill’s Phoney War” – by Graham T. Clews
26
May
2020
1921: A Watershed Year, Brilliantly Recounted by David Stafford
18
Feb
2020
By WILLIAM J. SHEPHERD
Stafford’s description of this critical year is masterful. In 1921 the former “bold, bad man” of British national life rose above his reputation as a war-mongering opportunist. The picture is of a reflective and vulnerable man of character, strengthened by every reverse—a man of vision and, to a few observers, “a prime minister in the making.” Really good books about Churchill are scarce these days, and deserve full appreciation. This one belongs on any list of the top twenty specialized studies.
Tags:
Balfour Declartion,
Cairo Conference,
Chaim Weizmann,
Clare Sheridan,
Clementine Churchill,
David Lloyd George,
David Stafford,
Eddie Marsh,
Ernest Cassel,
F.E. Smith,
Gertrude Bell,
Herbert Lionel Vane-Tempest,
Iraq,
Irish Treaty,
Jordan,
King Faisal,
Lady Randolph Churchill,
Marigold Churchill,
Max Beaverbrook,
Mesopotamia,
Palestine,
Singapore,
T.E. Lawrence,
Two-Power Standard,
Washington Naval Treaty,
Winston S. Churchill,
“A Few Words of My Own”: Thoughts on Completing the Official Biography
30
Dec
2019
By SIR MARTIN GILBERT
Sir Martin’s reflections after finishing the final narrative volume are reprised as Hillsdale completes the final document volume in the Great Biography.
Bouverie’s Chamberlain: “A Mind Sequestered in Its Own Delusions”
31
Oct
2019
By MICHAEL McMENAMIN
Bouverie’s dismissal of the 1938 plot as “probably correctly” a fantasy is quite inexplicable. He lists Meehan’s book in his bibliography along with the memoirs of Erich Kordt, who wrote that swallowing Hitler’s terms at Munich “prevented the coup d’état in Berlin.” Even Henderson, the pro-Chamberlain British ambassador to Germany, thought the Hitler plot genuine. On 6 October, a week after Munich, Henderson wrote Halifax: “By keeping the peace, we have saved Hitler and his regime.”
The Churchill Documents vol. 22, “Leader of the Opposition,” 1945-1951
25
Oct
2019
By ANDREW ROBERTS
Volume 22 of the Churchill Documents contains Churchill's documentary record from the 1945 election and his return to the premiership in October 1951. It is a curiously under-examined part of Churchill’s career. Yet it encompassed the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan and her subsequent surrender, his Iron Curtain speech in Missouri, the partition of India and the creation of Israel, the Berlin airlift, and the founding of NATO and the European movement. Upon all of these, Churchill took important stances.
McKercher and Capet on Churchill, War and War’s Aftermath
02
Oct
2019
By BRADLEY TOLPPANEN
McKercher and Capet have provided a collection of substantive and challenging essays. Their book offers many useful observations that will stimulate further historical discussion and scholarship.
A Needed Tribute to Churchill’s Most Devoted Staff, by Cita Stelzer
03
Sep
2019
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
"Working with Winston: The Unsung Women," by Cita Stelzer, shows the importance Churchill attached to everything, from routine domestic matters to the terror of imminent extinction. This book is essential to understand the rounded picture.