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Henry George was a hero to the Progressives, yet he, like Churchill, wished to preserve individual liberty through fairer methods of taxation.

The Liberal Party's enlightened ideas on taxation and liberty were understood by Churchill, Hill writes: but not, unfortunately, by many of his colleagues.

Sphinx editors in Brussels were steeped in the war as Churchill described it. Their volumes offer a splendid collection of wartime photographs.

Attracted by the works of Henry George, the young Churchill asked: Can justice only be achieved at the expense of individual liberty?

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."

“Like a beaker of champagne,” Harold Nicolson described My Early Life, and Churchill’s account of his life through 1908 still sparkles over a century later.

A brief review of "The Other Club", Sir Colin Coote's account of the gentlemen's dining club started by Winston Churchill and F. E. Smith.