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Books
“Winston Churchill: A Life in the News,” by Richard Toye
07
Dec
2020
2
By MICHAEL MCMENAMIN
Churchill and the media is a larger story than author Toye tells, and the omissions are as disappointing as the assertions are disconcerting.
Gary Scott Smith on Churchill’s Duty and Destiny, Life, and Faith
03
Oct
2020
Witold Pilecki: A Deserving Addition to the Roles of Honor
23
Aug
2020
3
By RICHARD COHEN and RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
The main concern for Pilecki at Auschwitz was the fate of Poles, but in describing that of the Jews he asked a stark question: “Were we all people”?
Tags:
Allied War Declaration of 1942,
Anne Frank,
Auschwitz,
Auschwitz Protocols,
Bergen-Belsen,
Bermuda Refugee Conference,
Charles Portal,
Esther Gilbert,
Evian Conference,
Franklin Roosevelt,
Holocaust,
Jack Fairweather,
Jan Karski,
Józef Garliński. Witold Pilecki,
Kazimierz Sosnkowski,
Martin Gilbert,
Polish Underground,
Pope Pius XII,
Richard Cohen,
Stefan Rowecki,
Stephen Wise,
Winston S. Churchill,
Wladyslaw Sikorski,
Yad Vashem,
“Grand Improvisation”: Derek Leebaert on the “Special Relationship”
19
Aug
2020
By WILLIAM J. SHEPHERD
During the war Churchill told a general: “Improvise and dare…He improvise and dore.” Leebaert sees America’s walk to global leadership in much the same way.
The British Raj According to Tharoor: Some of the Truth, Part of the Time
07
Aug
2020
4
Hillsdale College’s Official Biography: A Reader’s Appreciation
31
Jul
2020
By DAVE TURRELL
The Biography “is true, insofar as diligence and research can establish truth…. All an author can offer is a fragment of reality—that, and the hope that it will endure.” —William Manchester
“Never Flinch”…the last of The Churchill Documents brings the saga full circle
23
Jul
2020
1
By KLAUS LARRES
Never Flinch, Never Weary chronicles a time when mankind stood “uncertainly poised between world catastrophe and a golden age.”
Tags:
Anthon Nutting,
Anthony Eden,
Bermuda Conference,
Dien Bien Phu,
Dwight Eisenhower,
European Coal and Steel Community,
European Economic Community,
Gamal Abdel Nasser,
Georgy Malenkov,
Harold Macmillan,
John Foster Dulles,
King Farouk,
Klaus Larres,
Larry Arnn,
Martin Gilbert,
Queen Elizabeth II,
Rab Butler,
Vyacheslav Molotov,
“Churchill’s Phoney War” – by Graham T. Clews
26
May
2020
The Terror and Splendor of the Blitz, finely related by Erik Larson
18
Mar
2020
By ANDREW ROBERTS
The Splendid and the Vile is the story of the London Blitz, from the moment that Winston Churchill became prime minister on 10 May 1940, until the Luftwaffe raid that destroyed the parts of the House of Commons exactly one year later, coincidentally on the same night that Rudolf Hess flew to Scotland.
“Three Most Unlikely Musketeers”*: The Kremlin Letters
05
Mar
2020
By WARREN F. KIMBALL
For non-Russian-reading researchers, this book is indispensable. For aficionados of the history of the Second World War, it is a thought-provoking delight.
The Churchillian Wisdom of Professor Paul Addison
28
Feb
2020
1
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Our grief and loss are deeply felt. Paul was a gentleman scholar: a man of strong convictions, who never let them interfere with his search for truth. Hagiography is fatal. Honesty matters. Those were his cardinal precepts.
Above all, he left a corpus of excellence from which young people will always learn things worth knowing. His work abides, and as Churchill said, a man never dies as long as he is remembered. All who love history will forever remember Paul Addison.
New Views of the “Special Relationship” compiled by Dobson and Marsh
19
Feb
2020
By BRADLEY P. TOLPPANEN
A close Anglo-American partnership was a guiding principle in Churchill’s thinking about international relations. The creation of such a partnership was a central aspect of his long political career. While still a young backbench Member of Parliament, he said, “it ought to be the main end of English statecraft over a long period of years to cultivate good relations with the United States.” In 1918 he declared it his hope that the two countries would “act permanently together.”