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Buruma Ponders the Political Abductions of Winston Churchill

Jun

2021

By WARREN F. KIMBALL

However much Churchill promoted a positive Anglo-American relationship, he did not create it. For Buruma to blame him for British nationalism is absurd.

Posted in: 2020, Books,

Tags: Boris Johnson, David Reynolds, Dean Acheson, Franklin Roosevelt, Horatio Nelson, Ian Buruma, Nigel Farage, Nigel Rees, Queen Elizabeth I, Richard M. Langworth, Warren F. Kimball, Winston S. Churchill,

“Three Most Unlikely Musketeers”*: The Kremlin Letters

Mar

2020

By WARREN F. KIMBALL

For non-Russian-reading researchers, this book is indispensable. For aficionados of the history of the Second World War, it is a thought-provoking delight.

Posted in: 2018, Books,

Tags: David Reynolds, Franklin Roosevelt, Ivan Maisky, Josef Stalin, Oleg Rzheshevsky, Teheran Conference, Vladimir Pechatnov. Vyacheslav Molotov, Warren F. Kimball, Winston S. Churchill, Yalta Conference,

Churchillisms: “Leave the Past to History” (which He will Write)

Oct

2016

By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT

Question: Malcolm MacDonald (son of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald) records in his book, "Titans and Others," a Churchill confrontation with then-Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in the House of Commons. “History will say the Rt. Hon. Gentleman is wrong in this matter,” Churchill says. “I know it will, for I shall write that history.” What was the date? Didn’t he say this frequently?

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