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Bromance in Naples: The Wooing of Jacky Fisher, 1912
12
Oct
2023
1
By DAVE TURRELL
When war came, the Grand Fleet was oil-fired and fully mobilized. Britain’s Queen Elizabeth-class battleships, built to Fisher’s and Churchill’s specifications, outgunned the Germans. All could be traced to their Naples démarche. But in wooing Fisher back, Churchill had unknowingly embraced his nemesis.
Reporting Churchills: Henry Lucy on Winston and Lord Randolph
31
Jul
2023
By DAVE TURRELL
Winston “was evidently fully supplied with notes,” Lucy wrote, “but he did not use his manuscript for the purpose of reading a single sentence...a debater who will have to be reckoned with whatever Government is in office. Probably a ministry composed of his own political friends have most to apprehend.” The last sentence is telling. It was obvious that Winston was his father’s son—a political disrupter by nature.
Moments in Time: The Churchills in Criccieth, Wales, September 1913
09
May
2023
By DAVE TURRELL
It is sobering to speculate on the fate of those pictured, the young men especially, and the young women who would watch them go. If it felt like the height of Empire, it was soon to usher in the end of Empire. Within a few months the Byzantine components of interlocking treaties would slam inexorably into place. Churchill and Lloyd George had enormous roles yet to play. But an age was ending, and their days of football in the field would not return.
Sander and Langer Take us Out for Drinks
20
Feb
2023
By DAVE TURRELL
"If you are going to use a famous name to improve the selling potential of your book, at least some basic research to get that famous name correct. Hint: in this case, it’s not “Winston Lawrence Spencer Churchill” (pages 5, 66, 128). This is inaccuracy on an industrial scale. We are told in the acknowledgments section: “Researching and writing any book is hard; Researching and writing a book while much of the known world is shut down in a pandemic required great creativity and imagination.” We noticed.
Band of Brothers: Austen and Neville Chamberlain, and Their Eulogists
16
Jun
2022
By DAVE TURRELL
All are all now firmly established in the great pantheon of the House of Commons. All experienced failure, engendered controversy, still do, and always will. In death, all passion spent, they can be evaluated for the characters that lay beneath their politics. And, in common, a deep seam of basic decency can be found.
Chips Channon Diaries 1938-43: The Energy and Verve of a Great Diarist
31
May
2022
By DAVE TURRELL
Channon, a superb diarist, had an extraordinary ability to capture and present the interesting. One can only admire the energy it must have taken simply to make hand-written daily, mostly lengthy, entries, amidst the social whirlwind in which he lived. Two thousand pages in, and we are left yearning for more. Luckily a third, and final, installment is due out later this year.
The Churchill Documents Volume 21: The Shadows of Victory
17
Nov
2021
1100 Titles: An Annotated Bibliography of Works about Churchill
09
Jan
2021
2
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
All the works concerning Winston S. Churchill since 1905, with annotations on content, quality and links to reviews.
In Defense of Graham Sutherland and his “Infamous” Churchill Portrait
03
Sep
2020
9
By DAVE TURRELL
Today, we need not flinch from the image. Sutherland saw a man behind the legend, reached deep, and gave us the man. The legend needed no portrait.
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Hillsdale College’s Official Biography: A Reader’s Appreciation
31
Jul
2020
By DAVE TURRELL
The Biography “is true, insofar as diligence and research can establish truth…. All an author can offer is a fragment of reality—that, and the hope that it will endure.” —William Manchester