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Great Contemporaries: Archibald Sinclair, the Last War Casualty
28
Feb
2021
By BRADLEY P. TOLPPANEN
Sinclair aging: “He did so much and worried so greatly on account of the boys who lost their lives…no wonder that he is now a war casualty.”
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Archibald Sinclair,
Arthur Greenwood,
Arthur Tedder,
Battle of Moreuil Wood,
Bradley P. Tolppanen,
Charles Portal,
Clement Attlee,
Cyril Newall,
Edward Halifax,
Edward Spears,
Gerard De Groot,
H.H. Asquith,
Harold Macmillan,
Hugh Dowding,
Jack Seely,
Leopold Amery,
Max Beaverbrook,
Munich,
Neville Chamberlain,
Ottawa Conference,
Sholto Douglas,
Stanley Baldwin,
The Other Club,
Winston S. Churchill,
Leo McKinstry on Churchill and Attlee: A Primer on Political Collegiality
29
Nov
2019
2
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
McKinstry is thorough and scrupulously fair. Unlike too many historians today, he goes in with no axes to grind. He simply tells the story, backed by a voluminous bibliography, extensive research and private correspondence. In scope and balance, the book reminds us of Arthur Herman’s Gandhi and Churchill—another elegant account of two contentious figures. Like Herman, McKinstry captures Churchill’s generosity of spirit, and his rival’s greatness of soul.
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Alfred Duff Cooper,
Anthony Eden,
Arthur Herman,
Clement Attlee,
Clementine Churchill,
David Hunt,
Dresden,
First Quebec Conference,
Gallipoli campaign,
Gestapo,
H.G. Wells,
Harold Laski,
Harold Nicolson,
Horace Wilson,
Hugh Dalton,
India act,
Jock Colville,
King Edward VIII,
Leo McKinstry,
Liberalism and the Social Problem,
Neville Chamberlain,
Potsdam Conference,
Robert Menzies,
Ronald Cohen,
Stanley Baldwin,
The Aftermath,
The Other Club,
Trade Disputes Act,
Violet Attlee,
Wallis Simpson,
Winston S. Churchill,
Yalta Conference,
Marlborough: In its pages, Churchill laid the basis of his own greatness
22
Nov
2019
1
By ANDREW ROBERTS
Churchill told the story of his ancestor in beautiful Augustan Age prose, but also discovered new sources and corrected earlier historians’ errors. Mastering foreign language documents, he produced an outstanding work of history as well as literature, one that appealed to an academic as well as to a popular audience. All this came from someone whose father had said: “He has little [claim] to cleverness, to knowledge or any capacity for settled work.”
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Alfred Duff Cooper,
Andrew Roberts,
Charles II of Spain,
First Duke of Marlborough,
Franklin Roosevelt,
Glorious Revolution,
Harold Macmillan,
James Roosevelt,
John Churchill,
Louis XIV,
Maurice Ashley,
Napoleon,
National Government,
Stanley Baldwin,
The Other Club,
Thomas Babington Macaulay,
War of the Spanish Succession,
William III,
Winston S. Churchill,
Great Contemporaries: Alfred Duff Cooper
18
Aug
2019
By BRADLEY P. TOLPPANNEN
"I have forfeited a great deal. I have given up an office that I loved, work in which I was deeply interested, and a staff of which any man might be proud. I have given up associations in that work with my colleagues with whom I have maintained for many years the most harmonious relations, not only as colleagues but as friends. I have given up the privilege of serving as lieutenant to a leader whom I still regard with the deepest admiration and affection. I have ruined, perhaps, my political career. But that is a little matter; I have retained something which is to me of great value—I can still walk about the world with my head erect." - Duff Cooper, 1938
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Alfred Duff Cooper,
Appeasement,
Archibald Wavell,
Douglas Haig,
Harold Nicolson,
J.L. Garvin,
Lady Diana Cooper,
Leopold Amery,
Max Beaverbrook,
Max Reinhardt,
Munich Pact,
Neville Chamberlain,
Richard Law,
Robert Boothby,
Singapore,
Talleyrand,
The Other Club,
Violet Bonham Carter,
Walter Elliot,
Winston S. Churchill,
“Winston Churchill on Politics as Friendship,” by John von Heyking
06
Jun
2019
2
By BRADLEY P. TOLPPANEN
Von Heyking offers an interesting scholarly work that places Churchill’s many political friendships within a philosophical grounding.
“Mirrored in the Pool of England”: Churchill, Shakespeare, and Henry V
16
Apr
2019
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Richard Langworth looks at the importance of Shakespeare, especially "Henry V," on Churchill and his rhetoric during World War II.