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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.”

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,

“Angel of Deliverance”: Churchill’s Tributes to Joan of Arc

02

Nov

2020

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By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH

Despite his encomiums to Joan, Churchill rated Napoleon higher, with Georges Clemenceau a close third—and, a bit farther down, de Gaulle.

Posted in: Churchill and History, Q & A, The Literary Churchill,

Tags: Anatole France, Anthony Montague Browne, Brendan Bracken, Casablanca, Denis Brogan, Domrémy-la-Pucelle, François Kersaudy, Georges Clemenceau Charles de Gaulle, Hundred Years' War, Joan of Arc, Manfred Weidhorn, Napoleon Bonaparte, Winston S. Churchill,

“What Purpose History?” an Analysis of Churchill and Caesar as Writers of History

02

Jun

2020

By JUSTIN D. LYONS

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Churchill and Caesar both wrote literate war memoirs. Was this special pleading, or was there a higher purpose? For Churchill, there certainly was.

Posted in: Churchill and History, Explore,

Tags: Alanbrooke, Alexa Jervis, Cicero, John Lukacs, Julius Caesar, Justin D. Lyons, Manfred Weidhorn, Nobel Prize for Literature, Triumph and Tragedy, Winston S. Churchill,

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