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Great Contemporaries: Archibald Wavell, Man of Silences (Part 2)
29
Jul
2021
By RAYMOND A. CALLAHAN
Churchill believed any obstacle could be surmounted, while Wavell prepared for the worst. Both traits had served Britain well.
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Bernard Montgomery,
Bill Slim,
Claude Auchinleck,
George Marshall,
Harold Alexander,
Irwin Rommel,
James Wolfe,
Lord Kitchener,
Lord Linlithgow,
Middle East,
Operation Battleaxe,
Orde Wingate,
Raymond A. Callahan,
Viceroy of India,
Winston S. Churchill,
Cambridge: “The Racial Consequences of Mr. Churchill,” A Review
14
Mar
2021
3
By ANDREW ROBERTS and ZEWDITU GEBREYOHANES
A forensic examination and point-by-point of a Cambridge University panel on Churchill, race, the British Empire and the Second World War.
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Abhijit Sarkar,
Amritsar,
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Arthur Herman,
as Amartya Sen,
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British Empire,
Christopher Columbus,
Churchill Archives Centre,
Churchill College Cambridge,
Clement Attlee,
Ernest Bevin,
Eugenics,
Holocaust,
Jallianwala Bagh,
John Maynard Keynes,
Lend Lease,
Leo Crowley,
Lord Linlithgow,
Lord Mountbatten,
Max Beaverbrook,
Operation Barbarossa,
Oxford Union,
Reverse Lend-Lease,
Richard M. Langworth,
Sati,
Thuggee,
Tirthankar Roy,
Zareer Masani,
Zewditu Gebreyohanes,
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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Abyssinia,
Alan Brooke,
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East African Campaign,
Gideon Force,
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James Wolfe,
Joseph Stillwell,
Louis Mountbatten,
Moshe Dayan,
Palestine,
Quebec Conference,
Reginald Wingate,
Special Night Squads,
T.E. Lawrence,
Winston S. Churchill,
Great Contemporaries: Alfred Duff Cooper
18
Aug
2019
By BRADLEY P. TOLPPANEN
"I have forfeited a great deal. I have given up an office that I loved, work in which I was deeply interested, and a staff of which any man might be proud. I have given up associations in that work with my colleagues with whom I have maintained for many years the most harmonious relations, not only as colleagues but as friends. I have given up the privilege of serving as lieutenant to a leader whom I still regard with the deepest admiration and affection. I have ruined, perhaps, my political career. But that is a little matter; I have retained something which is to me of great value—I can still walk about the world with my head erect." - Duff Cooper, 1938
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Richard Law,
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Singapore,
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The Other Club,
Violet Bonham Carter,
Walter Elliot,
Winston S. Churchill,
Churchill and the Guns of Singapore, 1941-42: Facing the Wrong Way?
25
Jun
2019
8
By CHRISTOPHER M. BELL
The fall of Singapore had been such a profound shock in 1942 that Churchill's reaction to Pownall’s explanation may have been more emotional than reasoned.
“How Churchill Waged War,” by Allen Packwood
23
May
2019
By TERRY REARDON
The director of the Churchill Archives Center examines Churchill’s decision-making methods on challenges and problems of the Second World War.