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Great Contemporaries: Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman
05
Jan
2021
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Pamela Harriman, said Jacques Chirac, was “elegance itself...a peerless diplomat.” That old Francophile, her father-in-law, would have smiled.
Tags:
Averell Harriman,
Caspar Weinberger,
David Margesson,
Everard Digby,
Gunpowder Plot,
Jacques Chirac,
Jesse Helms. Paul H. Robinson Jr.,
John Churchill,
Legion d’Honneur,
Leland Hayward,
Minterne Magna,
Norman Ornstein,
Pamela Harriman,
Richard Holbrooke,
Richard M. Langworth,
Thomas Maier,
Winston Churchill (grandson),
Winston S. Churchill,
Great Contemporaries: Alan Brooke, the Thoroughbred Professional
19
Dec
2020
By CHRISTOPHER C. HARMON
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
13
Dec
2020
1
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
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
05
Nov
2020
1
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Breathless media admiration of Hitler’s Anschluss obscured German military deficiencies that might have mattered if the democracies had stood firm.
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Adolf Hitler,
Alexander Lassner,
Anschluss,
Case Otto,
Erich Raeder,
Geoffrey Dawson,
Hapsburg Empire,
Hearst press,
Hermann Goering,
Joachim von Ribbentrop,
Kurt von Schuschnigg,
League of Nations,
Little Entente,
Neville Chamberlain,
Richard M. Langworth,
Unity Mitford,
Versailles Treaty,
Werner von Blomberg,
Winston S. Churchill,
“Shall We All Commit Suicide?”: Churchill’s Scientific Imagination – Part 2
31
Oct
2020
By PAUL K. ALKON
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
24
Oct
2020
By PAUL K. ALKON
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”
08
Oct
2020
By BRADLEY P. TOLPPANEN
Wingate “lives on in the long-range penetration groups, and all these intricate and daring air and military operations.” —WSC
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Abyssinia,
Alan Brooke,
American Air Commandos,
Archibald Wavell,
Bradley P. Tolppanen,
Burma Campaign,
Chaim Weismann,
Chindits,
David Ben-Gurion,
East African Campaign,
Gideon Force,
Haile Selassie,
James Wolfe,
Joseph Stillwell,
Louis Mountbatten,
Moshe Dayan,
Palestine,
Quebec Conference,
Reginald Wingate,
Special Night Squads,
T.E. Lawrence,
Winston S. Churchill,
History as Prologue: Winston Churchill and the Historian as Statesman
17
Sep
2020
By JOSIAH LEINBACH
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.
Tags:
David Lindsay Keir,
edmund burke,
Edward Gibbon,
George Santayana,
Harrow,
Henry Hallam,
J.H. Plumb,
Joseph Addison,
Josiah Leinbach,
Lady Randolph Churchill,
Lord Randolph Churchill,
Neville Chamberlain,
Sandhurst,
Thomas Babington Macaulay,
Tribe of Issachar,
Two-Power Standard,
William Shakespeare,
Winston S. Churchill,
Remembering Richard Haking: The General who Saved Churchill’s Life
10
Sep
2020
By H. ASHLEY REDBURN
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
08
Sep
2020
By DAVID FORMAN
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.
Winston Churchill and the Armenian Genocide, 1914-23
05
Sep
2020
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Early in the 20th century, Armenian peoples suffered the greatest and bloodiest of all the great mass-slaughters which till then there was record.
Tags:
Adana massacre,
Armenia,
Battle of Ypres,
Chanak crisis,
chemical warfare,
David Lloyd George,
Enver Pasha,
Gallipoli,
Hamidian massacres,
League of Nations,
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk,
Ottoman Empire,
Paris Peace Conference,
Sir Henry Wilson,
Sultan Abdul Hamid II,
The Aftermath,
Theodore Roosevelt,
Treaty of Lausanne,
Treaty of Sèvres,
Turkey,
William Ewart Gladstone,
Winston S. Churchill,
woodrow wilson,
Young Turks,
In Defense of Graham Sutherland and his “Infamous” Churchill Portrait
03
Sep
2020
1
By DAVE TURRELL
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.
Tags:
Aneurin Bevan,
Anthony Montague Browne,
Charles Moran,
Churchill College,
Clementine Churchill,
Dave Turrell,
David McFall,
Dwight Eisenhower,
Georgy Malenkov,
Grace Hamblin,
Graham Sutherland,
Herbert Gunn,
Jennie Lee,
John Charmley,
King George VI,
Mary SOames,
Max Beaverbrook,
Omdurman,
Shane Leslie,
Somerset Maugham,
Winston S. Churchill,