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2020
A New Churchill Reference Guide by Christopher Catherwood
16
May
2022
By DAVE TURRELL
"This volume is part of a series aimed, as the publishers assure us, at 'young adults.' At the same time it is intended as a 'reference guide.' After spending some time with the book I have trouble in seeing the value that young adults will gain from it. The book is primarily set out in alphabetic, encyclopedic format, with entries presented two columns to a page, along with an index and a bibliography. The result is a curiously unbalanced mixture."
Kluger and Evans on the Atlantic Charter: Less Than Meets the Eye
25
Jan
2022
Sara Reguer Focuses on Churchill Reorganizing the “Fertile Crescent”
17
Nov
2021
1
Buruma Ponders the Political Abductions of Winston Churchill
15
Jun
2021
By WARREN F. KIMBALL
However much Churchill promoted a positive Anglo-American relationship, he did not create it. For Buruma to blame him for British nationalism is absurd.
No major canard is too preposterous for this mini-biography by Hanson.
07
Jun
2021
David Charlwood, “Churchill and Eden: Partners Through War and Peace”
31
Mar
2021
By WILLIAM JOHN SHEPHERD
Eden by Charlwood: “The morning had been golden; the noontime was bronze; and the evening lead. But all were solid, and each was polished until it shone after its fashion.”
Daughters of Yalta by Catherine Katz: “A Story of Love and War”
31
Mar
2021
By CITA STELZER
The story of the Churchill, Harriman and Roosevelt daughters at the Yalta Conference was unnoticed until this account by Catherine Katz.
Alan Allport: The War, Nothing but the War, yet Not the Whole War
25
Mar
2021
By RAYMOND A. CALLAHAN
Alan Allport offers a very fine synthesis of new aspects without repetition, but Churchill’s long shadow still hovers over WW2.
Nancy Carver’s Story of the Church That Unites Two Peoples
05
Mar
2021
Lord Woolton on the Battle to Feed Britain and Plan for the Future
04
Mar
2021
By ANTOINE CAPET
Churchill, Woolton wrote privately, “doesn’t seem to understand that nobody else wants rationing any more than he does...”
Book of the Year: Paul Rafferty on Churchill’s “Paintatious” Riviera
21
Feb
2021
Churchill’s Britain: So Much More Still Needs to Be Done
10
Feb
2021
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Neither a travelogue nor a general reader, this is about “people and places,” mostly people, not a comprehensive guide to Churchill’s Britain.
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