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T.E. Lawrence
Great Contemporaries: Orde Wingate – “A Man of the Highest Quality”
08
Oct
2020
By BRADLEY P. TOLPPANEN
Wingate “lives on in the long-range penetration groups, and all these intricate and daring air and military operations.” —WSC
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Abyssinia,
Alan Brooke,
American Air Commandos,
Archibald Wavell,
Bradley P. Tolppanen,
Burma Campaign,
Chaim Weismann,
Chindits,
David Ben-Gurion,
East African Campaign,
Gideon Force,
Haile Selassie,
James Wolfe,
Joseph Stillwell,
Louis Mountbatten,
Moshe Dayan,
Palestine,
Quebec Conference,
Reginald Wingate,
Special Night Squads,
T.E. Lawrence,
Winston S. Churchill,
A Walking Tour of Winston Churchill’s Historic Whitehall
06
Oct
2020
By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
The Churchill Project provides descriptions of the twelve most significant locations in Whitehall, London as they relate to Winston Churchill.
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Admiralty,
Admiralty Arch,
Battle of Trafalgar,
Board of Trade,
Cenotaph,
Colonial Office,
Corinthia Hotel,
Dardanelles,
David Lloyd George,
Duglas Haig,
Dundee,
Home Secretary,
Horatio Nelson,
King Charles I,
King Edward VII,
London,
Ministry of Defence,
Ministry of Munitons,
National Liberal Club,
Nelson's Column,
Old War Office,
Palace of Westminster,
Parliament,
Royal Navy,
Royal Navy Air Service,
Royal Scots Fusiliers,
T.E. Lawrence,
Trafalgar Square,
Westminster Abbey,
Whitehall,
Winston S. Churchill,
Great Contemporaries: T.E. Lawrence – No Greater Churchillian
15
Aug
2020
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Lawrence “was indeed a dweller upon the mountain tops…and where the view on clear days commands all the Kingdoms of the world and the glory of them.” —WSC
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1921 Cairo Conference,
2003 Iraq War,
Adam Lindsay Gordon,
Brendan Bracken,
Clementine Churchill,
Emir Feisal,
F.E. Smith Lord Birkenhead,
Great Contemporaries,
Mary SOames,
Max Beaverbrook,
Paris Peace Conference,
Ronald Stores,
Saddam Hussein,
Seven Pillars of Wisdom,
T.E. Lawrence,
Winston S. Churchill,
Winston Churchill and Julius Caesar: Parallels and Inspirations
26
May
2020
By JUSTIN D. LYONS
“In my mind’s eye I invest him with the robes of Caesar…. The lives of the great are an inspiration to their posterity.” —Lewis Broad
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Battle of Zela,
Birth of Britain,
Caesar’s Commentaries,
Charles Munro,
Cicero,
Clement Attlee,
David Lloyd George,
Emery Reves,
Gallic Wars,
Gallipoli,
H.G. Wells,
Harrow School,
Home Guard,
John Maynard Keynes,
Julius Caesar,
Justin D. Lyons,
Plutarch,
T.E. Lawrence,
William Ewart Gladstone,
Winston S. Churchill,
1921: A Watershed Year, Brilliantly Recounted by David Stafford
18
Feb
2020
By WILLIAM J. SHEPHERD
Stafford’s description of this critical year is masterful. In 1921 the former “bold, bad man” of British national life rose above his reputation as a war-mongering opportunist. The picture is of a reflective and vulnerable man of character, strengthened by every reverse—a man of vision and, to a few observers, “a prime minister in the making.” Really good books about Churchill are scarce these days, and deserve full appreciation. This one belongs on any list of the top twenty specialized studies.
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Balfour Declartion,
Cairo Conference,
Chaim Weizmann,
Clare Sheridan,
Clementine Churchill,
David Lloyd George,
David Stafford,
Eddie Marsh,
Ernest Cassel,
F.E. Smith,
Gertrude Bell,
Herbert Lionel Vane-Tempest,
Iraq,
Irish Treaty,
Jordan,
King Faisal,
Lady Randolph Churchill,
Marigold Churchill,
Max Beaverbrook,
Mesopotamia,
Palestine,
Singapore,
T.E. Lawrence,
Two-Power Standard,
Washington Naval Treaty,
Winston S. Churchill,