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Love Story: “Churchill’s Secret”
16
Sep
2016
1
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
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.
“Pim and Churchill’s Map Room” – by John Potter
24
Jul
2016
By ANDREW ROBERTS
This fine little book distills Captain Pim’s memoirs, which are lodged in the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland in Belfast. Expertly edited by John Potter, it offers charming vignettes of what it was like to work for Churchill, as Pim saw him on an almost daily basis and travelled with him to almost all the wartime conferences.
“There was Once a Man”: A Visit to Chartwell, 1955
29
Feb
2016
3
Did Churchill Really Want World War I?
21
Jan
2016
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Judgments on history are all too easy in hindsight. Manfred Weidhorn has suggested that if Hitler had been assassinated in 1938 he would have gone down as the restorer of German greatness. If in 1941, the inevitable result of his policies in 1942-45 would have left loyal Nazis pining, "Ach, if only der Fuehrer were still alive." I suppose that if Churchill had been killed on the Western Front, where he went to fight in 1916, we would still have these inaccurate views of his attitude toward war, spread about by everyone from pot-stirrers to serious and admirable historians. I am sorry about that.
Churchill Painting at Eze-sur-Mer
05
Sep
2015
2
By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
Painting was virtually suspended during World War II, but Churchill took it up immediately after he was dismissed by the electorate in 1945. He made painting visits Lord Beaverbrook’s villa, “La Capponcina,” and in the mid-Fifties he was actively seeking a place of his own on the Riviera.
Churchill on War: Part 1
30
Apr
2015
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Churchill's reputation as a warrior tends to obscure his efforts for peace, but from the time he was a young Member of Parliament, already possessed of experience in war on three continents, Churchill spoke of the frightfulness of modern war and strove to avoid it.