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2020
The Todman Duology: Plus ça Change, The Churchill Narrative Survives
31
Dec
2020
By RAYMOND A. CALLAHAN
Scholarship accumulates and sources multiply, Todman writes. The perspective of Churchill’s memoirs persists—if sometimes heavily qualified.
A Vital Medical Contribution by Doctors Vale and Scadding
29
Dec
2020
By ANTOINE CAPET
Vale and Scadding offer a vital account of Churchill's medical history which expands our knowledge and sets the record straight.
The Bumptious Politician’s Guide to Churchill Myths and their Making
24
Dec
2020
By MICHAEL MCMENAMIN
“The Churchill Myths” is not about Churchill. It is about how politicians the authors don’t like wrap themselves in Churchill mythology.
“Winston Churchill: A Life in the News,” by Richard Toye
07
Dec
2020
2
By MICHAEL MCMENAMIN
Churchill and the media is a larger story than author Toye tells, and the omissions are as disappointing as the assertions are disconcerting.
Gary Scott Smith on Churchill’s Duty and Destiny, Life, and Faith
03
Oct
2020
The Terror and Splendor of the Blitz, finely related by Erik Larson
18
Mar
2020
By ANDREW ROBERTS
The Splendid and the Vile is the story of the London Blitz, from the moment that Winston Churchill became prime minister on 10 May 1940, until the Luftwaffe raid that destroyed the parts of the House of Commons exactly one year later, coincidentally on the same night that Rudolf Hess flew to Scotland.