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“Churchill: His Radical Decade” by Malcolm Hill
21
Mar
2019
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
The Liberal Party's enlightened ideas on taxation and liberty were understood by Churchill, Hill writes: but not, unfortunately, by many of his colleagues.
Editions Le Sphinx: A Fine Illustrated Edition of Churchill’s War Memoirs
21
Mar
2019
By ANTOINE CAPET
Sphinx editors in Brussels were steeped in the war as Churchill described it. Their volumes offer a splendid collection of wartime photographs.
Henry George and Churchill’s “The People’s Rights”: Part 1
20
Mar
2019
2
By ANDREW MACLAREN
Attracted by the works of Henry George, the young Churchill asked: Can justice only be achieved at the expense of individual liberty?
Savrola: Churchill’s Novel, and Its Most Beautiful Appearance
28
Jan
2019
4
By ANTOINE CAPET
Many students of his canon consider that the hero is Churchill as he liked to imagine himself then. An appreciator of beauty and fine living, Savrola cannot live "in dreamy quiet and philosophic calm in some beautiful garden, far from the noise of men" while the life of the nation is at stake. "'Vehement, high and daring,' was his cast of mind. The life he lived was the only one he could ever live; he must go on to the end." Forty years later the novelist would exhort his countrymen: "We shall go on to the end....We shall never surrender."