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“The River War” Returns in a Masterful and Scholarly New Edition

12

Jul

2021

5

By RONALD I. COHEN

River War

The River War is remarkable because of its author, length, content and audacity. The author was already a rising political star, having run and lost for Parliament. At 962 pages, the book analyzed the Anglo-Egyptian reconquest of the Sudan, a conflict largely forgotten today—except for its dramatic concluding event, one of history’s last great cavalry charges, in which Churchill himself participated.

Posted in: Books,

Tags: Herbert Kitchener, James W. Muller, Omdurman, River War, Winston S. Churchill,

Great Contemporaries: Violet Bonham Carter, Lifelong Friend (Part 1)

13

Mar

2021

By FRED GLUECKSTEIN

Violet Asquith, 1906: “I found myself sitting next to this young man who seemed to me quite different from any other young man I had ever met…”

Posted in: Explore, Great Contemporaries,

Tags: 9th Duke of Marlborough, Admiralty, Clementine Churchill, Enchantress, Fred Glueckstein, Gallipoli, H.H. Asquith, Henry Campbell Bannerman, Herbert Kitchener, Jacky Fisher, Joseph Ward, King Manuel II, Lord Rosebery, Marquis de Soveral, Maurice Bonham Carter, New Slains Castle, Rupert Brooke, Violet Bonham Carter, Winston S. Churchill,

William Nester Offers a Valuable Study of Churchill’s Statesmanship

13

Feb

2021

By CASEY J. WHEATLAND

Nester

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

Posted in: Books,

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,

Sir Winston Churchill’s Three Outstanding War Books

03

Dec

2020

2

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.”

Posted in: Q & A, The Literary Churchill,

Tags: 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,

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