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Great Contemporaries: Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman
Pamela Harriman, said Jacques Chirac, was “elegance itself...a peerless diplomat.” That old Francophile, her father-in-law, would have smiled.
Great Contemporaries: Alan Brooke, the Thoroughbred Professional
Still visible above swirls of pettiness, heroes remain: Brooke, the great general; above him, looming ever larger, the man who saved liberty.
Paul Courtenay 1934-2020: No Better Definition of a Pro
Paul Courtenay was indispensable, a Churchill encyclopedia. But he'd never say "I told you so." Even if he HAD told us so.
Hitler’s “Tet Offensive”: Churchill and the Austrian Anschluss, 1938
Breathless media admiration of Hitler’s Anschluss obscured German military deficiencies that might have mattered if the democracies had stood firm.
“Shall We All Commit Suicide?”: Churchill’s Scientific Imagination – Part 2
Churchill’s affinity for scientific techniques, themes and writers significantly proclaims his openness toward the future—and its perils.
“Shall We All Commit Suicide?”: Churchill’s Scientific Imagination – Part 1
Churchill’s imagination in engaging with science and its potential consequences enabled him to confront vast change between the Victorian and Atomic eras.
Great Contemporaries: Orde Wingate – “A Man of the Highest Quality”
Wingate “lives on in the long-range penetration groups, and all these intricate and daring air and military operations.” —WSC
History as Prologue: Winston Churchill and the Historian as Statesman
Churchill looked back on the past with reverence and with regularity—thankfully so, for we owe him the same debt we owe to our history: gratitude.
Remembering Richard Haking: The General who Saved Churchill’s Life
Unknowingly, General Haking assisted in one of the narrowest of Churchill’s many escapes from death. “Over me,” said WSC, “beat the invisible wings.”
Churchill and Shakespeare without Melodrama: a Response to Jonathan Rose
Jonathan Rose writes that the sea of Churchill's tastes was dominated by melodrama, but he misses the whale among the fish—Churchill's beloved Shakespeare.
In Defense of Graham Sutherland and his “Infamous” Churchill Portrait
Today, we need not flinch from the image. Sutherland saw a man behind the legend, reached deep, and gave us the man. The legend needed no portrait.