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Sir Winston Churchill’s Three Outstanding War Books
03
Dec
2020
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Churchill's best war books: “fascinating products of the human spirit, epic tales filled with the depravities, miseries, and glories of man.”
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Anthony Montague Browne,
Battle of Omdurman,
David Lloyd George,
Edward Grey,
Edward Marsh,
First World War,
Herbert Kitchener,
J.H. Plumb,
John Keegan,
Manfred Weidhorn,
Passchendaele,
Richard M. Langworth,
Robert Pilpel,
Robert Rhodes James,
Rudi Giuliani,
Second World War,
Somme,
Sudan,
Thucydides,
Winston S. Churchill,
“Shall We All Commit Suicide?”: Churchill’s Scientific Imagination – Part 1
24
Oct
2020
By PAUL K. ALKON
Churchill’s imagination in engaging with science and its potential consequences enabled him to confront vast change between the Victorian and Atomic eras.
A Walking Tour of Winston Churchill’s Historic Whitehall
06
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.
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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,
Winston Churchill and the Armenian Genocide, 1914-23
05
Sep
2020
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Early in the 20th century, Armenian peoples suffered the greatest and bloodiest of all the great mass-slaughters which till then there was record.
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Adana massacre,
Armenia,
Battle of Ypres,
Chanak crisis,
chemical warfare,
David Lloyd George,
Enver Pasha,
Gallipoli,
Hamidian massacres,
League of Nations,
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk,
Ottoman Empire,
Paris Peace Conference,
Sir Henry Wilson,
Sultan Abdul Hamid II,
The Aftermath,
Theodore Roosevelt,
Treaty of Lausanne,
Treaty of Sèvres,
Turkey,
William Ewart Gladstone,
Winston S. Churchill,
woodrow wilson,
Young Turks,
Winston Churchill’s Statesmanship before the First World War, 1912-14
28
Aug
2020
By JOSHUA WAECHTER
Prudence, Aristotle’s primary quality of statesmen was well demonstrated by Churchill at the Admiralty in the years leading up to the First World War.
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Alfred von Tirpitz,
Aristotle,
Barbara Tuchman,
Battle of Jutland,
Benjamin Disraeli,
David Lloyd George,
Edward Grey,
First World War,
George Callaghan,
H.H. Asquith,
High Seas Fleet,
John Burns,
John Jellicoe,
John Morley,
Joshua Waechter,
Lord Salisbury,
Patrick Buchanan,
Royal Navy,
Triple Entente,
William Ewart Gladstone,
Winston S. Churchill,
Great Contemporaries: Philip Sassoon – A Friend at the End of an Era
01
Aug
2020
By FRED GLUECKSTEIN
Throwback to vanished age, Sassoon served his country in war and peace, and entertained the glitterati at his palatial mansions. He died too young.
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Anthony Eden,
David Lloyd George,
Douglas Haig,
Fred Glueckstein,
Gallipoli,
Gallipoli campaign,
John French,
Kenneth Clark,
Marthe Bibesco,
Philip Sassoon,
Philip Tilden,
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother,
Richard Tauber,
Robert Boothby,
Samuel Hoare,
Siegfried Sassoon,
Stanley Baldwin,
Winston S. Churchill,
Winston Churchill and Julius Caesar: Parallels and Inspirations
26
May
2020
By JUSTIN D. LYONS
“In my mind’s eye I invest him with the robes of Caesar…. The lives of the great are an inspiration to their posterity.” —Lewis Broad
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Battle of Zela,
Birth of Britain,
Caesar’s Commentaries,
Charles Munro,
Cicero,
Clement Attlee,
David Lloyd George,
Emery Reves,
Gallic Wars,
Gallipoli,
H.G. Wells,
Harrow School,
Home Guard,
John Maynard Keynes,
Julius Caesar,
Justin D. Lyons,
Plutarch,
T.E. Lawrence,
William Ewart Gladstone,
Winston S. Churchill,
How Churchill Dodged the Flu Pandemic, and Others Were Not So Lucky
13
Apr
2020
By JOHN H. MAURER
Historical close calls, during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-21, remind us of the role of illness and chance in the fate of nations and their leaders.
Clare Sheridan: “The nearest thing to a sister that Winston ever had.”
23
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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Clare Sheridan,
Dardanelles,
David Lloyd George,
David Stafford,
Felix Dzerzhinsky,
Freddie Guest,
Gallipoli,
George Slocombe,
Grigory Zinoviev,
Ian Hamilton,
Independent Labour Party,
Kemal Ataturk,
Lady Randolph Churchill,
Leon Trotsky,
Leonie Leslie,
Lev Kamenev,
Moreton Frewen,
Vernon Kell,
Vladimir Lenin,
William Norman Ewer,
William Sheridan,
Winston S. Churchill,
Churchill and the Channel Tunnel
18
Mar
2020
1
By ANTOINE CAPET
Churchill was an early and steady supporter of a Channel Tunnel, which was first proposed in 1751. For most of his life he joined in lively and almost continuous discussion of “a fixed link with the Continent.” Indeed, during the 1924-1929 Conservative government, Churchill was seen as “the leading political advocate of a tunnel.”
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Antoine Capet,
Arthur Balfour,
Austen Chamberlain,
Channel Tunnel Company,
Churchill Documents,
conscience vote,
David Lloyd George,
Douglas Haig,
Entente Cordiale,
European Coal and Steel Community,
Free Vote,
George Curzon,
H.H. Asquith,
Herbert Kitchener,
Herbert Morrison,
Jean Monnet,
Joseph Chamberlain,
Lord Randolph Churchill,
Maurice Hankey,
Operation Sea Lion,
Prince Louis of Battenberg,
Ramsay MacDonald,
Samuel Hoare,
Sir Henry Wilson,
Sir John Fisher,
Sir John French,
Stanley Baldwin,
W.H. Smith,
Winston S. Churchill,
1921: A Watershed Year, Brilliantly Recounted by David Stafford
18
Feb
2020
By WILLIAM J. SHEPHERD
Stafford’s description of this critical year is masterful. In 1921 the former “bold, bad man” of British national life rose above his reputation as a war-mongering opportunist. The picture is of a reflective and vulnerable man of character, strengthened by every reverse—a man of vision and, to a few observers, “a prime minister in the making.” Really good books about Churchill are scarce these days, and deserve full appreciation. This one belongs on any list of the top twenty specialized studies.
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Balfour Declartion,
Cairo Conference,
Chaim Weizmann,
Clare Sheridan,
Clementine Churchill,
David Lloyd George,
David Stafford,
Eddie Marsh,
Ernest Cassel,
F.E. Smith,
Gertrude Bell,
Herbert Lionel Vane-Tempest,
Iraq,
Irish Treaty,
Jordan,
King Faisal,
Lady Randolph Churchill,
Marigold Churchill,
Max Beaverbrook,
Mesopotamia,
Palestine,
Singapore,
T.E. Lawrence,
Two-Power Standard,
Washington Naval Treaty,
Winston S. Churchill,
“Raucous Caucus Clamour”: Winston Churchill on the Referendum
17
Dec
2019
By MICHAEL RICHARDS
Churchill offers thoughtful ideas on when representative government may be supplemented by a national vote. Above all, he thought the referendum must be rare. Only eleven times in his long career was there a call for a referendum. Only six times did he support it.
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Archibald Sinclair,
Arthur Balfour,
Charles Coughlan,
Clement Attlee,
constitutionalism,
David Lloyd George,
Devolution,
F.E. Smith,
Free Trade,
George Curzon,
H.H. Asquith,
House of Lords,
Irish Home Rule,
Irish Treaty,
Jan Smuts,
Joseph Chamberlain,
Kevin Theakston,
Parliament Act 1911,
referendum,
Responsible Government,
Rhodesia,
Richard M. Langworth,
Stanley Baldwin,
Tariffs,
Ulster,
Winston S. Churchill,
Women Suffrage,