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Book of the Year: Paul Rafferty on Churchill’s “Paintatious” Riviera
21
Feb
2021
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Paul Rafferty has followed Churchill’s footsteps through his favorite landscapes in an elegant documentary that has no peer in its field.
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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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Great Contemporaries: Emery Reves, Sales Dept. for the Production Chief
20
Nov
2019
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
It is a tribute to this book, and those who saw it into print, that a memory of two unforgettable spirits is so eloquently presented.
Churchill’s Debt to Harry Scherman and the Book-of-the-Month Club
20
Nov
2019
By RONALD I. COHEN
No counterpart of the Cassell limited presentation edition was produced by either the U.S. trade publisher, Houghton Mifflin, or the Book of the Month Club. Thus, either Mr. Scherman or the BOMC must have had this set specially bound. But your question is fascinating, since it raises several bibliographic questions and the BOMC’s important publishing role.
The Churchill Documents vol. 22, “Leader of the Opposition,” 1945-1951
25
Oct
2019
By ANDREW ROBERTS
Volume 22 of the Churchill Documents contains Churchill's documentary record from the 1945 election and his return to the premiership in October 1951. It is a curiously under-examined part of Churchill’s career. Yet it encompassed the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan and her subsequent surrender, his Iron Curtain speech in Missouri, the partition of India and the creation of Israel, the Berlin airlift, and the founding of NATO and the European movement. Upon all of these, Churchill took important stances.
Abstracts: Historians Survey Sir Winston’s Health in Old Age
06
Jun
2019
By ANTOINE CAPET
Medical historians find no evidence that Churchill suffered from major depression, but his health was subject to many ailments in his final decade.