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Q & A
Dinner on the Night That Changed Everything, 7 December 1941
08
Oct
2021
1
Creating Jordan “With the Stroke of a Pen on a Sunday Afternoon…”
19
Aug
2021
Churchill on South African Prison Camps, and Other Selective Quoting
12
Aug
2021
1
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
"The civilized combatant is obliged, at peril of being classed a savage, to avoid unnecessary cruelty to his enemy. Unless there has been unnecessary cruelty, whatever the suffering, there can be no barbarity. If there has been unnecessary cruelty, all who are in any way responsible for it are infected with the taint of inhumanity." —Churchill, 1901.
Questions and Answers: How Churchill Would See Our World
03
Aug
2021
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Churchillians in Portland, Oregon have Sir Winston on their minds; their questions are pertinent to our understanding of him, and ourselves.
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Andrew Roberts,
Chartwell Society of Portland,
George Orwell,
Henry Steele Commager,
Leo Strauss,
Marlborough,
Mary SOames,
My Early Life,
Neville Chamberlain,
North Korea,
Official Biography,
Palestine,
social media,
Stanley Baldwin,
The Second World War,
Umberto Eco,
Winston S. Churchill,
Zionism,
How Churchill Conducted Business in Bed, with his Avian Assistant Toby
15
Jul
2021
Ghost in the Attic (1): Churchill, the Soviets and the Special Relationship
27
May
2021
By WARREN F. KIMBALL
Did Churchill turn somersaults over the Soviets? Yes and with good reason. We understand events better through good historians, and hindsight.
Templer, Kennedy, and the Origin of Churchill’s “Wrung like a Chicken”
24
May
2021
1
By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
Joseph Kennedy or the French generals? The origins of a famous oratorical flourish, on how Britain turned out to be one tough chicken.
Churchill, Eden, America and the Suez Crisis of 1956
23
May
2021
By ANDREW ROBERTS
If any one event ended imperial Britain, it was Suez, which also saw last significant intervention by Winston Churchill in world affairs.
Churchill’s Steady Adherence to His 1946 “Iron Curtain” Speech in Fulton
01
Apr
2021
Churchill’s Alternative History: Robert E. Lee’s Triumph at Gettysburg
12
Dec
2020
1
By PAUL K. ALKON and THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
Experience gave Churchill both a horror of war and the ability to imagine alternate scenarios. In what he called “the after-light,” it is shocking to realize that the worst possible outcome he imagined after the First World War came to be, just two decades later. Contemplating the causes of the war, Churchill with his historic imagination conjured up a scenario which might have prevented it—in 1863. Suppose, he asks us, Lee had won?
Sir Winston Churchill’s Three Outstanding War Books
03
Dec
2020
9
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Churchill's best war books: “fascinating products of the human spirit, epic tales filled with the depravities, miseries, and glories of man.”
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Anthony Montague Browne,
Battle of Omdurman,
David Lloyd George,
Edward Grey,
Edward Marsh,
First World War,
Herbert Kitchener,
J.H. Plumb,
John Keegan,
Manfred Weidhorn,
Passchendaele,
Richard M. Langworth,
Robert Pilpel,
Robert Rhodes James,
Rudi Giuliani,
Second World War,
Somme,
Sudan,
Thucydides,
Winston S. Churchill,
Churchill in 1943 on National Health Insurance and Taxation
30
Nov
2020
1
By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
Churchill believed medical advances were “the inheritance of all,” and advocated insurance against illness; he was also mindful of its cost to taxpayers.