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“With Winston Churchill at the Front” – by Andrew Dewar Gibb
22
Aug
2016
By WILLIAM JOHN SHEPHERD
Gibb’s original work, nine chapters and 112 pages, was a slender volume, notable as an early firsthand account of Churchill’s military sojourn after his famous fall from political power in 1915. This new edition is an odd but useful amalgamation of Gibb’s 1924 text with copious extractions or rewrites from Sir Martin Gilbert’s first volume (The Challenge of War) in the official biography, Winston S. Churchill.
Churchill’s Character: Sense of Duty
27
Jun
2016
Churchill Comes of Age: Cuba 1895 – by Hal Klepak
14
Mar
2016
1
Contasino Meets Churchill, 1931: “A World Aglare”
13
Mar
2016
By FRED GLUECKSTEIN
Mario Contasino will forever be connected with the story of an event that almost altered history. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. once asked: “Would the next two decades have been the same had the automobile killed Winston Churchill in 1931 and the bullet killed Franklin Roosevelt in 1933?"
Great Contemporaries: Ralph Wigram and His Death
02
Nov
2015
3
By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
Ever since the producers of “The Wilderness Years” television documentary (1982) took liberties by suggesting that Wigram was a suicide, it has been broadly accepted as fact. Indeed recently another myth was layered on to this one: that Wigram’s parents didn’t attend his funeral in Sussex because suicide was proscribed by the Church.
Did Churchill “Bid to Nuke Russia”?
28
Aug
2015
By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
In late 2014, London’s Daily Mail produced a shock headline: “Winston Churchill's ‘bid to nuke Russia’ to win Cold War uncovered.” While the conversation is undoubtedly true, it is hardly new. It’s been known for decades that Churchill voiced such a thought several times in private conversation in 1946-47. What is not true is that Churchill ever “bid to nuke Russia.”
Humorous Exchanges in the House of Commons Cloakroom
21
Aug
2015
1
The Churchill Day Book: “Nothing Surpasses 1940”
06
May
2024
1
By BRADLEY P. TOLPPANEN
“We may, I am sure, rate this tremendous year as the most splendid, as it was the most deadly, year in our long English and British story....[N]othing surpasses 1940.... The soul of the British people and race had proved invincible. The citadel of the Commonwealth and Empire could not be stormed. Alone, but upborne by every generous heartbeat of mankind, we had defied the tyrant in the height of his triumph.” —WSC, 1949
Churchill General Election and By-Election Results 1899-1959
09
Apr
2024
1
By DAVE TURRELL
Churchill was the winner in fourteen out of sixteen general elections in his career, an impressive performance; his record in by-elections, two out of five, was not nearly so solid, but those losses twice led to new seats that he held for long stretches. Defeated in Manchester in 1908, he moved to Dundee, which he held for sixteen years. Starting in 1924 he represented Epping, later Woodford, without serious challenge for forty years.
The Churchill Day Book for 1943: Turning of the “Hinge of Fate”
17
Nov
2023
By BRADLEY P. TOLPPANEN
The year 1943 was the final turning point of the Second World War. At 69, Churchill’s schedule saw relentless activity and 147 days abroad. He worked from morning to the small hours. He met staff and advisors, read cables, correspondence, communiques, newspapers, government reports, intelligence data. He chaired meetings of numerous committees, the most important being the War Cabinet. Churchill wrote his own speeches, corresponded and met with world leaders, most importantly Stalin and Roosevelt.
The Churchill Timeline: His Life and Times, 1874-1977
09
Oct
2023
Kishan Rana on Churchill and India: A Misunderstood Relationship
15
May
2023
2
By ANDREAS KOUREAS
The most common misconceptions about Churchill and India are no better misrepresented than by former Indian Ambassador Rana. Ladled on wholesale are false accusations of genocide, imperial hatred and invented conspiracies. The ridiculous price for so short a book may do more than anything to prevent people from reading it. Which, given the contents, may not altogether be a bad thing.