Normandy and Beyond leaves us in awe at Churchill’s linguistic fluidity, clarity of thought, sense of humor, impish mischief, foresight, and ability to deal with “nests of cockatrices.”
Normandy and Beyond demonstrates enormous mass of detail Churchill had to deal with around D-Day. Antoine Capet makes a case study of the ever-present de Gaulle problem.
Sandys describes her grandfather’s paintings with four characteristics, which she also applies to his approach to life: bold, irrepressible, loving of life, and inspiring.
Ironically, if not iconically, both were struck down in the midst of triumph: Churchill by the electors, Lincoln by a bullet. “In war you can only be killed once,” Churchill said, “but in politics many times.”
The “book to go with the film” by Andrew McCarten falls short of the movie. It supposes Churchill was an ordinary man. In the movie, he is anything but.
Michael McMenamin smartly praises Shakespeare's "Six Minutes In May" for its coherent, fascinating account of Churchill's rise to power in conjunction with Hitler's aggression in the West.
This eclectic photo documentary is hardly essential to the Churchill library, but may appeal through its unique visual presentation of fairly obscure subjects.
