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The Brendon Bestiary: Churchill’s Animals as Friends and Analogies
03
Sep
2019
1
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
This is just a representative fraction of Piers Brendon’s comprehensive book. He avoids repeating material in several previous accounts, and goes much deeper into the subject. Most of the anecdotes have not appeared previously and are thus quite valuable. Anyone interested in the personal side of the great man owes it to themselves to buy a copy.
Moulders of Greatness: Winston Churchill and Oscar Nemon
28
Aug
2019
Great Contemporaries: Alfred Duff Cooper
18
Aug
2019
By BRADLEY P. TOLPPANEN
"I have forfeited a great deal. I have given up an office that I loved, work in which I was deeply interested, and a staff of which any man might be proud. I have given up associations in that work with my colleagues with whom I have maintained for many years the most harmonious relations, not only as colleagues but as friends. I have given up the privilege of serving as lieutenant to a leader whom I still regard with the deepest admiration and affection. I have ruined, perhaps, my political career. But that is a little matter; I have retained something which is to me of great value—I can still walk about the world with my head erect." - Duff Cooper, 1938
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“That Neutral Island”: Ireland in World War II (with apologies to Clair Wills*)
16
Aug
2019
1
By WARREN F. KIMBALL
Whatever arguments we might make about Ireland in the Second World War, they will help us better to understand the dynamics of today’s relationships between the great powers.
“Winston Churchill on Politics as Friendship,” by John von Heyking
06
Jun
2019
2
By BRADLEY P. TOLPPANEN
Von Heyking offers an interesting scholarly work that places Churchill’s many political friendships within a philosophical grounding.
“Mirrored in the Pool of England”: Churchill, Shakespeare, and Henry V
16
Apr
2019
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Richard Langworth looks at the importance of Shakespeare, especially "Henry V," on Churchill and his rhetoric during World War II.
How did Churchill Cope with Stress and Anxiety? A Primer.
20
Mar
2019
3
Great Contemporaries: Rudyard Kipling, “Unique and Irreplaceable”
06
Feb
2019
By FRED GLUECKSTEIN
Churchill was a devotee of Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) the English poet, short-story writer and novelist, who in 1907 won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Kipling’s majestic novels of the old Empire struck a romantic chord in the young Winston. Later they studded his books and speeches.
Abstracts: Physicians Consider Churchill’s Cardiovascular History
11
Sep
2018
By ANTOINE CAPET
"The medical world and Churchill’s entourage agreed that Sir Winston’s recovery after this fateful episode was spectacular. On 18 August, he presided over a cabinet meeting lasting for nearly three hours. Apparently, none of his close colleagues who knew what had happened could believe he had suffered any new medical problem."
Churchilliana: a Medallion Commemorating the Grand Coalition
09
Jul
2018
1
By ANDREW ROBERTS
Late in 1945, Winston Churchill had the splendid and characteristically generous idea of commemorating his 1940-45 Coalition Government—which had only broken up six months previously—by striking a large bronze medallion. In early 1946 he presented one to every member of that government, as well as to others. In all, there were 136 of these magnificent, four-inch diameter objects, each weighing 8.7 ounces. They were cast at Churchill’s own expense by the foremost manufacturer of such things, Spink & Son, a company founded in 1666.
Who tried to silence Churchill’s 1930s Warnings about Nazi Germany?
05
Jun
2018
3
Great Contemporaries: Lord Attlee on “The Churchill I Knew” Part 2
07
May
2018
By CLEMENT ATTLEE
"He was, of course, above all, a supremely fortunate mortal. History set him the job that he was the ideal man to do. I cannot think of anybody in this country who has been favoured in this way so much, and, into the bargain, at the most dramatic moment in his country’s history. In this, Winston was superbly lucky. And perhaps the most warming thing about him was that he never ceased to say so."