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Churchill’s first piece of published fiction, Man Overboard! appeared in January 1899. Ronald Cohen’s bibliography dates its writing March 1898. In late March or early April, Churchill sent a draft to General Ian Hamilton: “The story I send you as it may amuse you for an hour….”

A colloquium on Churchill’s famous speech at Westminster College, Missouri and its impact on Anglo-American relations throughout the Cold War and beyond.

A contemporary recording of Churchill’s “Unknown Warriors" speech offers a rare opportunity to hear his voice as the world heard it in July 1940.

Antoine Capet, Professor Emeritus at the University of Rouen, explores reactions from Churchill's critics after his famous Iron Curtain speech.

Hillsdale College will host an exhibition of nine original paintings by Winston Churchill from January 30 to March 10. This traveling exhibition, which also includes memorabilia from Churchill's life and times, is organized by the National Churchill Museum at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.

All the Churchill recordings ever published—including private recordings—are listed here for the first time by Churchill’s bibliographer.

PBS and ITV have succeeded where many failed. They offer here a Churchill documentary with a minimum of dramatic license, reasonably faithful to history (as we know it). Churchill’s Secret limns the pathos, humor, hope and trauma of a little-known episode: Churchill’s stroke on 23 June 1953, and his miraculous recovery—while for weeks his faithful lieutenants secretly ran the government. To paraphrase Dr. Johnson, the film is worth seeing, and worth going to see.

Episode 8 of "The Wilderness Years" captures a dramatic scene from Churchill’s memoirs. Chamberlain, he wrote, “had scarcely ceased speaking when a strange, prolonged, wailing noise, afterwards to become familiar, broke upon the ear. My wife came into the room braced by the crisis [and] we made our way to the shelter assigned to us, armed with a bottle of brandy and other appropriate medical comforts.” There, to his astonishment, Churchill is cheered by Londoners.

Britain’s surrender of military parity with Germany is nowhere better illustrated than through these episodes recalling the events of 1937-38.

Flying Peril: The threat of a German air force superior to Britain’s, denied for years by British leaders, proved only too true. This fifth episode of “The Wilderness Years” introduces two of the people who, at the risk of their careers, provided Churchill with secret information on German rearmament.

In Munich on 30 August 1932, six months before Hitler took power in Germany, Winston Churchill came as close as he ever would to meeting Hitler face to face, amid sobering scenes of marching, chanting brownshirts singing Die Horst Wessel Lied.

"Wars are not caused by the build-up of weapons. They are caused when an aggressor believes he can achieve his objectives at an acceptable price." - Margaret Thatcher