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Wheatcroft on WSC: Never in the field of Churchill revisionism have so many punches been thrown in so many pages, with so few hitting home.

Churchillians in Portland, Oregon have Sir Winston on their minds; their questions are pertinent to our understanding of him, and ourselves.

However repulsive Chips was, after this first volume, masterfully edited by Simon Heffer, readers will be eager for the rest.

How Jack Johnson proved as good a lawyer as he was a boxer; and how Winston Churchill proved a better politician than Lord Stanhope. The reality behind another unfounded Churchill calumny.

Churchill took criticisms of his Fulton speech calmly, and never backed off. He knew he’d been right & within three years he was vindicated.

Violet Asquith, 1906: “I found myself sitting next to this young man who seemed to me quite different from any other young man I had ever met…”

"All Mr. Churchill needs is the direction in his life of a great idea. He is a Saul on the way to Damascus. Let him swing clean away from that road to destruction and he might well become Paul on his way to immortality. This is to say, that to be saved from himself. Mr. Churchill must be carried away by enthusiasm for some great ideal." —Harold Begbie, 1921

Hopkins to Churchill, 1942: “‘Where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God’…Even to the end.”

All the works concerning Winston S. Churchill since 1905, with annotations on content, quality and links to reviews.

Despite his encomiums to Joan, Churchill rated Napoleon higher, with Georges Clemenceau a close third—and, a bit farther down, de Gaulle.

Churchill looked back on the past with reverence and with regularity—thankfully so, for we owe him the same debt we owe to our history: gratitude.

Unknowingly, General Haking assisted in one of the narrowest of Churchill’s many escapes from death. “Over me,” said WSC, “beat the invisible wings.”