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Churchill’s classic, “The River War” Returns to Print
08
Jan
2024
By LARRY P. ARNN
The book is a portent of what Churchill will become and achieve. It demonstrates two things about him, the first his incessant ambition. Young British officers used every artifice to get sent to a war, any war. Churchill did the same, but when he was emphatically refused, he went anyway and found a job, a fighting job, when he got there. The second thing demonstrated about Churchill in this book is his power to see beyond the battlefield to something more strategic and political: the meaning of the battle to the way of life and the way of government of the peoples involved.
Cancel-Culture: We Expected Better from the National Trust and the BBC
17
Dec
2020
2
By ANDREW ROBERTS
Ahistorical attacks like that of the BBC and National Trust strip away a heroic past. When a nation loses its heroes, something in it dies.
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,