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The Churchill Papers: Largest Private Repository of Recent British History
18
Sep
2023
1
By MARTIN GILBERT
“Having read them all and edited most, I can only conclude that the Churchill Papers will provide in the future, as they are already doing, a rich seam of historical gold—the richest in fact outside the Government’s own National Archives, which houses Churchill’s voluminous wartime papers, as well as the papers of his four-year peacetime premiership.”
Pure Gold: Martin Gilbert’s “In Search of Churchill”
10
Jul
2023
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
More than any of his nearly 90 works, "In Search of Churchill" is deeply personal. It is Sir Martin’s answer to all those critics over the years who accused him of being uncritical about a figure some have spent years denouncing. It is also, therefore, a self-defense manual for friends of Churchill: a smorgasbord of historical karate-chops.
The Churchill Documents Volume 21: The Shadows of Victory
17
Nov
2021
Parker Points the Way to Fair and Balanced Cambridge Churchill Seminars
14
Jun
2021
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
The Parker opus: “No matter how much the details of Churchill and his career become known, he still remains, quite simply, a great man.”
Tags:
Alistair Parker,
Anita Prazmowska,
Bernd Martin,
Brian McKercher,
Correlli Barnett,
François Kersaudy,
Geoffrey Elton,
Hans-Peter Schwartz,
Jon Sumida,
Larry Arnn,
Martin Gilbert,
Maurice Vaisse,
Pablo Pombeni,
Phillips O’Brien,
Richard M. Langworth,
Tage Kaarsted,
Treaty of Rome,
Warren Kimball,
Winston S. Churchill,
Stephen Wynn on the Sweet and Sour of Churchill’s Decision-making
15
Dec
2020
By DAVID FORMAN & RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Despite inadequate sourcework, Wynn takes a human view of Churchill, and so writes a book examining the “flawed decisions” of the “Greatest Briton.”
Paul Courtenay 1934-2020: No Better Definition of a Pro
13
Dec
2020
2
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Paul Courtenay was indispensable, a Churchill encyclopedia. But he'd never say "I told you so." Even if he HAD told us so.
Witold Pilecki: A Deserving Addition to the Roles of Honor
23
Aug
2020
3
By RICHARD COHEN and RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
The main concern for Pilecki at Auschwitz was the fate of Poles, but in describing that of the Jews he asked a stark question: “Were we all people”?
Tags:
Allied War Declaration of 1942,
Anne Frank,
Auschwitz,
Auschwitz Protocols,
Bergen-Belsen,
Bermuda Refugee Conference,
Charles Portal,
Esther Gilbert,
Evian Conference,
Franklin Roosevelt,
Holocaust,
Jack Fairweather,
Jan Karski,
Józef Garliński. Witold Pilecki,
Kazimierz Sosnkowski,
Martin Gilbert,
Polish Underground,
Pope Pius XII,
Richard Cohen,
Stefan Rowecki,
Stephen Wise,
Winston S. Churchill,
Wladyslaw Sikorski,
Yad Vashem,
Hillsdale College’s Official Biography: A Reader’s Appreciation
31
Jul
2020
By DAVE TURRELL
The Biography “is true, insofar as diligence and research can establish truth…. All an author can offer is a fragment of reality—that, and the hope that it will endure.” —William Manchester
Churchill and the Presidents: Dwight Eisenhower, Sentiment and Politics
23
Jul
2020
1
By WARREN F. KIMBALL
In wartime, Eisenhower related to Churchill as junior to senior. As President, the relationship vastly changed, but ties of sentiment were still there.
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1953 Bermuda Conference,
Anglo-Persian Oil Company,
Anthony Eden,
Battle of Gettysburg,
Bermuda Conference,
Edgar Faure,
Harold Macmillan,
John Colville,
John Foster Dulles,
Joseph Stalin,
Klaus Larres,
Martin Gilbert,
Michael Howard,
Mohammad Mosaddegh,
Peter Boyle,
SHAEF,
Stephen Ambrose,
Winston S. Churchill,
“Never Flinch”…the last of The Churchill Documents brings the saga full circle
23
Jul
2020
1
By KLAUS LARRES
Never Flinch, Never Weary chronicles a time when mankind stood “uncertainly poised between world catastrophe and a golden age.”
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Anthon Nutting,
Anthony Eden,
Bermuda Conference,
Dien Bien Phu,
Dwight Eisenhower,
European Coal and Steel Community,
European Economic Community,
Gamal Abdel Nasser,
Georgy Malenkov,
Harold Macmillan,
John Foster Dulles,
King Farouk,
Klaus Larres,
Larry Arnn,
Martin Gilbert,
Queen Elizabeth II,
Rab Butler,
Vyacheslav Molotov,
“The Art of the Possible”: Churchill, South Africa, and Apartheid (1)
04
Jun
2020
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Rather than advancing segregation in South Africa, Churchill strove hard for justice, arrayed against the broad prejudices of his time. Part 1: 1902-09
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Apartheid,
Arthur Balfour,
Boer War,
Botswana,
Cape Colony,
Cape Coloureds,
Cecil Rhodes,
East Africa Protectorate,
Eswatini,
Henry Campbell Bannerman,
Ian Hamilton,
Jan Smuts,
Joseph Chamberlain,
Lesotho,
Lord Elgin,
Lord Milner,
Lord Selborne,
Louis Botha,
Martin Gilbert,
Mohandas Gandhi,
Natal,
Orange Free State,
Randolph S. Churchill,
Responsible Government,
South Africa,
Winston S. Churchill,
Zululand,
How Randolph Churchill Began the Longest Biography in History
16
Apr
2020
By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
Randolph Churchill’s career in journalism lasted thirty-six years. He wrote hundreds of articles, edited seven volumes of his father’s speeches, and published fifteen books, including the first seven narrative and document volumes of Winston S. Churchill, the official biography.