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William Nester Offers a Valuable Study of Churchill’s Statesmanship

Feb

2021

By CASEY J. WHEATLAND

The Churchill revealed by Nester is a model of statesmanship: prescient and competent, but accompanied by certain errors of strategy.

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Tags: Battle of Omdurman, Boer War, Casey J. Wheatland, Dardanelles, Herbert Kitchener, Italian Campaign, Mark Clark, Ramsay MacDonald, Richard O’Connor, Sackville Carden, Stanley Baldwin, tanks, Winston S. Churchill,

Stephen Wynn on the Sweet and Sour of Churchill’s Decision-making

Dec

2020

By DAVID FORMAN & RICHARD M. LANGWORTH

Despite inadequate sourcework, Wynn takes a human view of Churchill, and so writes a book examining the “flawed decisions” of the “Greatest Briton.”

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Tags: Bengal famine, Clement Attlee, Coventry bombing, Dardanelles, David Forman, Dresden bombing, Gallipoli, Joseph Stalin, Martin Gilbert, Richard M. Langworth, Singapore, Tonypandy, Winston S. Churchill,

A Walking Tour of Winston Churchill’s Historic Whitehall

Oct

2020

By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT

The Churchill Project provides descriptions of the twelve most significant locations in Whitehall, London as they relate to Winston Churchill.

Posted in: Churchill for Today, Resources,

Tags: Admiralty, Admiralty Arch, Battle of Trafalgar, Board of Trade, Cenotaph, Colonial Office, Corinthia Hotel, Dardanelles, David Lloyd George, Duglas Haig, Dundee, Home Secretary, Horatio Nelson, King Charles I, King Edward VII, London, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Munitons, National Liberal Club, Nelson's Column, Old War Office, Palace of Westminster, Parliament, Royal Navy, Royal Navy Air Service, Royal Scots Fusiliers, T.E. Lawrence, Trafalgar Square, Westminster Abbey, Whitehall, Winston S. Churchill,

Clare Sheridan: “The nearest thing to a sister that Winston ever had.”

Mar

2020

By DAVID STAFFORD

He died in 1965 and Clare followed him five years later. Their relationship has been side-lined or ignored by many biographers more interested in politics than in Churchill’s private life. But the bust made by the “Obstreperous Anarchist” forever stands in the hallway of Chartwell. It is mute testimony to a family friendship that endured through tempestuous times.

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