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Books
Daughters of Yalta by Catherine Katz: “A Story of Love and War”
31
Mar
2021
By CITA STELZER
The story of the Churchill, Harriman and Roosevelt daughters at the Yalta Conference was unnoticed until this account by Catherine Katz.
Alan Allport: The War, Nothing but the War, yet Not the Whole War
25
Mar
2021
By RAYMOND A. CALLAHAN
Alan Allport offers a very fine synthesis of new aspects without repetition, but Churchill’s long shadow still hovers over WW2.
Nancy Carver’s Story of the Church That Unites Two Peoples
05
Mar
2021
Lord Woolton on the Battle to Feed Britain and Plan for the Future
04
Mar
2021
By ANTOINE CAPET
Churchill, Woolton wrote privately, “doesn’t seem to understand that nobody else wants rationing any more than he does...”
Book of the Year: Paul Rafferty on Churchill’s “Paintatious” Riviera
21
Feb
2021
William Nester Offers a Valuable Study of Churchill’s Statesmanship
13
Feb
2021
By CASEY J. WHEATLAND
The Churchill revealed by Nester is a model of statesmanship: prescient and competent, but accompanied by certain errors of strategy.
Churchill’s Britain: So Much More Still Needs to Be Done
10
Feb
2021
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Neither a travelogue nor a general reader, this is about “people and places,” mostly people, not a comprehensive guide to Churchill’s Britain.
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1100 Titles: An Annotated Bibliography of Works about Churchill
09
Jan
2021
2
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
All the works concerning Winston S. Churchill since 1905, with annotations on content, quality and links to reviews.
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.
Stephen Wynn on the Sweet and Sour of Churchill’s Decision-making
15
Dec
2020
By DAVID FORMAN & RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Despite inadequate sourcework, Wynn takes a human view of Churchill, and so writes a book examining the “flawed decisions” of the “Greatest Briton.”