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Churchill in WWI
“Churchill Sank the Lusitania to Get America into the War”
19
Oct
2023
1
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
For a century now, rumors have swirled that “Lusitania” was deliberately sacrificed by the British, chiefly Churchill. His alleged aim was to so infuriate the Americans as to bring them into the war against Germany. More recently, critics charged that Churchill’s Admiralty conspired to steer the ship into harm’s way. Scholarly testimony to the truth exists—but lacking glitz and pathos, it tends to be ignored. Yet the facts refuting this slander have been known for decades.
Sinking RMS Lusitania: A Long-Lived Conspiracy Theory
24
Sep
2020
9
By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
The first chapter of Nigel Hamilton's book, The Mantle of Command, states that the Lusitania was an “ill-fated American liner.” He leaves the impression that Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, had played a role in the sinking in order to get the United States into World War I.
Dardanelles-Gallipoli Centenary
01
May
2015
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Churchill usually comes in for (and deserves) some of the blame for the tragic failure of the Gallipoli Peninsula landings, but rarely does everybody “get it right.” Churchill's reasons for the attack and his subsequent exoneration from blame casts a different light on the Dardanelles-Galipoli affair.