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Books
“Winston’s Island” – by Anthony Churchill
12
May
2016
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh has the first copy. The Duke of Marlborough has the second, and Sir Winston Churchill’s great-grandson Randolph (who wrote the foreword) ordered eight as Christmas presents. You should have one, if you are a total-immersion Churchillian with a penchant for the extraordinary, for Winston’s Island, the Isle of Wight, has its unique claim to a place in the saga.
No More Champagne – by David Lough
25
Mar
2016
1
Winston Churchill Reporting – by Simon Read
18
Mar
2016
By WILLIAM JOHN SHEPHERD
Veteran journalist Simon Read considers Churchill’s early career as a soldier and war correspondent a “true tale of adventure…Churchill as Indiana Jones” (ix). Young Winston’s experiences, Read says, enabled him to escape his father’s shadow, to earn repute, and to be judged by his accomplishments. They also informed Churchill’s complex views on warfare, and equipped him for the rough and tumble of parliamentary life. It was the crucible of his remarkable moral vision and courage in the great wars of the 20th century.
Churchill Comes of Age: Cuba 1895 – by Hal Klepak
14
Mar
2016
1
“Hollow Heroes” – by Michael Arnold
25
Feb
2016
1
The Churchill Documents, Volume 18 – by Sir Martin Gilbert and Larry P. Arnn
22
Feb
2016
By ELIOT A. COHEN
"We will never again have so thorough a record of any statesman’s decision making, and certainly not of one so great, in a war so vast and consequential. Indulge your Churchillian obsession with the latest volume of war documents, and behold the labor that his leadership required."
“Winston Churchill and the ‘Black Dog’ of Depression” – by Wilfred Attenborough
20
Jan
2016
10
By JOHN H. MATHER MD
Churchill picked up the term “black dog,” a commonplace description by Victorian nannies for out-of-sorts children, from his childhood nurse, Mrs. Everest. Over the years, writers have made the most of it, beginning with psychiatrist Anthony Storr’s essay “The Man,” in the 1969 collection, Churchill: Four Faces and the Man. Conjecture since has led all the way to the theory that Churchill had a bipolar disorder. But none of these arguments are considered in any detail here.
Winston S. Churchill: The Official Biography Old and New
11
Jan
2016
1
“Churchill and the Generals” – by Mike Lepine
11
Jan
2016
“British Miscalculations: The Rise of Muslim Nationalism” – by Isaiah Friedman
11
Jan
2016
1
By ERICA L. CHENOWETH
Isaiah Friedman, professor emeritus at Israel’s Ban-Gurion University, joins David Fromkin in reminding us how much more there was to know of the Arabic and Islamic world than the British and Allied powers were aware of or willing to admit in those frenzied and important times.
“Churchill & Eisenhower: Together Again” – by Brian A. Dementi
07
Dec
2015
By MAX EDWARD HERTWIG
What we have here is an elegant, landscape-format collection of photographs by Frank Dementi, of the Eisenhower-Churchill Virginia visit in March 1946, after Churchill’s famous “Iron Curtain” speech in Fulton, Missouri. Dementi, a distinguished press photographer, also snapped the 1943 Williamsburg visit of Clementine and Mary Churchill, and some of those photos are included. Dementi’s son Brian, who published the book as a tribute to his father, who would be proud.