Q & A

Jordan may have been created with the stroke of a pen, but Churchill didn’t quite say that, and his creation has now survived for 100 years.

From Aryans to prison camps: By culling only words that fit their narrative, Churchill's critics misrepresent what he really believed.

Churchillians in Portland, Oregon have Sir Winston on their minds; their questions are pertinent to our understanding of him, and ourselves.

After visiting WSC in bed, while mopping a sign of Toby’s affections off his head, Butler sighed patiently: “The things I do for England.”

Did Churchill turn somersaults over the Soviets? Yes and with good reason. We understand events better through good historians, and hindsight.

Joseph Kennedy or the French generals? The origins of a famous oratorical flourish, on how Britain turned out to be one tough chicken.

If any one event ended imperial Britain, it was Suez, which also saw last significant intervention by Winston Churchill in world affairs.

Churchill took criticisms of his Fulton speech calmly, and never backed off. He knew he’d been right & within three years he was vindicated.

Churchill’s political imagination allowed him to portray the implausibility of reality: a crucially different turn of history at Gettysburg.

Churchill's best war books: “fascinating products of the human spirit, epic tales filled with the depravities, miseries, and glories of man.”

Churchill believed medical advances were “the inheritance of all,” and advocated insurance against illness; he was also mindful of its cost to taxpayers.

Despite his encomiums to Joan, Churchill rated Napoleon higher, with Georges Clemenceau a close third—and, a bit farther down, de Gaulle.