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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
1
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
2
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.
Tags:
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.”
Tags:
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
Tags:
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,
Transvaal,
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.
Churchill’s Official Biography: Origin, Methodology and Concordance
06
Mar
2020
By LARRY P. ARNN
Never Flinch, Never Weary, 1951-1965 is the twenty-third volume of documents in the official biography of Winston Churchill. Together with the narrative texts, the work comprises thirty-one volumes in all. It is the last step in a journey that began over half a century ago, but prepared for decades earlier.
The Churchillian Wisdom of Professor Paul Addison
28
Feb
2020
1
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Our grief and loss are deeply felt. Paul was a gentleman scholar: a man of strong convictions, who never let them interfere with his search for truth. Hagiography is fatal. Honesty matters. Those were his cardinal precepts.
Above all, he left a corpus of excellence from which young people will always learn things worth knowing. His work abides, and as Churchill said, a man never dies as long as he is remembered. All who love history will forever remember Paul Addison.
“A Few Words of My Own”: Thoughts on Completing the Official Biography
30
Dec
2019
By SIR MARTIN GILBERT
Sir Martin’s reflections after finishing the final narrative volume are reprised as Hillsdale completes the final document volume in the Great Biography.
Churchill: A Million Allied Soldiers to Fight for the White Russians?
21
Nov
2019
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
No evidence exists that Churchill wished to commit a million Allied troops. The British contingent he envisioned was small, and made up of volunteers. Above all, Churchill wanted decision, not hesitation, which he abhorred all his life.