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After the surrender of Italy to the Allies in September 1943, the Italian Fleet was apportioned between the Allied powers and absorbed into their navies. Although the Axis had by then been cleared out of the Mediterranean, German forces having surrendered in Tunis that May, the ships played a significant part in the rest of the war. Negotiations regarding the apportioning of the Italian Fleet, in volume 19 of Hillsdale’s "The Churchill Documents," Fateful Questions, September 1943 to April 1944, provide a fascinating backdrop and insight into relations between Britain, America and Russia leading up to the November 1943 Teheran Conference and its aftermath.

The longest biography in history takes a long step to completion with publication of The Churchill Documents, Vol. 19, Fateful Questions, September 1943-April 1944. Fastidiously compiled by the late Sir Martin Gilbert and edited by Dr. Larry Arnn, these 2700 pages serve up another fresh contribution of documents crucial to our understanding of Churchill in World War II. It is a vast new contribution to Churchill scholarship.

Churchill never sneered at the supposed loss of French military power and valor in 20th century. He knew France provided a nearly indispensable buffer against Germany, and later, Russia.

What was it really like to watch Churchill win Dundee for the Liberals in 1910? A contemporary reporter, Luigi Barzini, Sr., brings the rollicking scene to life.

Hitherto unknown and uncatalogued, this fine painting at the Parthenon was presented by Sir Winston Churchill to West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer

Lincoln and Churchill not only knew and quoted Shakespeare; they were connoisseurs of his plays and critics of the actors.

Churchill’s understanding of France, and its potential for good and ill, begins with his biography of Marlborough, redolent with his lifetime theme of resisting continental tyrants.

Among the important figures of the 20th century, Churchill and Einstein competed with each other for the distinction of being labeled “Person of the Century” by Time magazine. At first sight they seemed different in almost all respects. Yet to some extent they had similar personalities and over time their thinking developed in not entirely different ways. They also liked each other—from the time they first met in 1933 at Chartwell, Churchill’s country estate.

Charlie Chaplin: “The charm of Churchill is in his tolerance and respect for other people’s opinions. He seems not to bear malice with those who disagree with him.” Though their political viewpoints differed, Chaplin and Churchill's friendship, begun in 1929, endured throughout the years.

Churchill interacted with eleven U.S. presidents, none more crucially than FDR. “No lover,” he said, “ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of Roosevelt.”

The literary value of "Lord Randolph Churchill" as a work of history lies not in the career of its subject, but in the majestic writing of its author—Winston Churchill.

Part 2 of Ronald Cohen's address to Ambassador and Mrs. Barak and the Sir Winston Churchill Society of Ottawa at Kinneret, residence of the Ambassador, 16 June 2016.