Andrew Roberts

In this detailed work, Bungay contributes to the historiography of the great air war, notwithstanding several highly questionable conclusions.

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

If any one event ended imperial Britain, it was Suez, which also saw last significant intervention by Winston Churchill in world affairs.

A forensic examination and point-by-point of a Cambridge University panel on Churchill, race, the British Empire and the Second World War.

The Calgary Churchill statue will celebrate Sir Winston’s prescience in peace, resolution in war, and lifetime quest for liberty and human rights.

“The Churchill Myths” is not about Churchill. It is about how politicians the authors don’t like wrap themselves in Churchill mythology.

Ahistorical attacks like that of the BBC and National Trust strip away a heroic past. When a nation loses its heroes, something in it dies.

Churchill and the media is a larger story than author Toye tells, and the omissions are as disappointing as the assertions are disconcerting.

Smith is clear that Churchill was a believer in a faith. And that faith was at the heart of his appeal to the British people in the Second World War.

With his many achievements, Haldane stood as warning that the apex of politics, there was no such thing as friendship. Except perhaps with Churchill.

If we allow our monuments and memorials and place-names to be torn down because of our present-day views, it speaks to a pathetic lack of confidence in ourselves.

Before Covid-19 leaves our native shores, is there anything that might be learned from Churchillian leadership about our best response to it?