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Great Contemporaries: Claude Auchinleck, Soldier of the Raj (Part 2)
16
Sep
2021
By RAYMOND A. CALLAHAN
London has no statue of Claude Auchinleck, the man who stopped Rommel and the last commander of the Indian Army. Perhaps there should be one.
Lord Woolton on the Battle to Feed Britain and Plan for the Future
04
Mar
2021
By ANTOINE CAPET
Churchill, Woolton wrote privately, “doesn’t seem to understand that nobody else wants rationing any more than he does...”
The Todman Duology: Plus ça Change, The Churchill Narrative Survives
31
Dec
2020
By RAYMOND A. CALLAHAN
Scholarship accumulates and sources multiply, Todman writes. The perspective of Churchill’s memoirs persists—if sometimes heavily qualified.
Great Contemporaries: Alan Brooke, the Thoroughbred Professional
19
Dec
2020
1
By CHRISTOPHER C. HARMON
Still visible above swirls of pettiness, heroes remain: Brooke, the great general; above him, looming ever larger, the man who saved liberty.
Great Contemporaries: Orde Wingate – “A Man of the Highest Quality”
08
Oct
2020
By BRADLEY P. TOLPPANEN
Wingate “lives on in the long-range penetration groups, and all these intricate and daring air and military operations.” —WSC
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Great Contemporaries: Sir Harold Alexander, Churchill’s Favorite General
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Jun
2020
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By BRADLEY P. TOLPPANEN
Among his generals, Churchill thought Alexander “the best we had.” Alex for his part was ever faithful, saying, “I can’t simply refuse Winston.”
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Hamilton’s Churchill: An Obsessive Who Worsened a President’s Illness
30
Jul
2019
By WARREN F. KIMBALL
Why would Hamilton raise the inconsequential to the significant? With admirers like this, Churchill’s memory needs no enemies.
Churchill’s Character: Hardiness, Resilience and Personal Toughness
11
Mar
2019
By JOHN H. MATHER, MD
Speaking of Britain and its Empire in 1941, Winston Churchill said: “We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.”1 A few weeks earlier he had advised the boys at Harrow School: “Never give in—never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”2 The image he conveyed is one of hardiness and personal toughness, and it galvanized his countrymen. Yet we rarely give thought to where he found the hardiness and resilience he conveyed.