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On Reputation: “If Churchill Had Not Been Ousted in 1942”
08
Feb
2023
1
By MANFRED WEIDHORN
“Suppose Churchill had lost those votes of confidence in 1942. Simply by being in place while the consequences of his earlier efforts played out, his successor surely would have the credit. The reasoning would have been—in a delicious irony—that the triumphs could not possibly be of Churchill, because 1939-42 proved that he simply did not know how to win.”
Sir Winston Churchill’s Three Outstanding War Books
03
Dec
2020
9
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,
“Angel of Deliverance”: Churchill’s Tributes to Joan of Arc
02
Nov
2020
1
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.
“What Purpose History?” an Analysis of Churchill and Caesar as Writers of History
02
Jun
2020
By JUSTIN D. LYONS
Churchill and Caesar both wrote literate war memoirs. Was this special pleading, or was there a higher purpose? For Churchill, there certainly was.