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Truths and Heresies
Churchill Knew About Pearl Harbor
Did Churchill Know that the Japanese planned to attack the United States at Pearl Harbor, and purposely withhold the information, hoping that a Japanese attack would bring America out of isolation and into World War II?
Dardanelles-Gallipoli Centenary
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.
Did Winston Churchill Ever Wish to Convert to Islam?
“The idea that Winston Churchill wanted to covert to Islam is utter tripe,” tweets the historian Andrew Roberts. This has not prevented the National Post from claiming that he did, in a December 2014 edition.
Did Churchill Exacerbate the Bengal Famine?
Reviewing a recent book, The Churchill Factor, by London Mayor Boris Johnson, a reviewer repeated a widespread canard that Winston Churchill caused the Bengal Famine. This allegation false; Churchill did everything he could in the midst of world war to save the Bengalis, and without him the famine would have been worse.