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Sir Winston Churchill’s Three Outstanding War Books
03
Dec
2020
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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,
How Churchill Dodged the Flu Pandemic, and Others Were Not So Lucky
13
Apr
2020
By JOHN H. MAURER
Historical close calls, during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-21, remind us of the role of illness and chance in the fate of nations and their leaders.
Which Historical and Contemporary Figures were Churchill’s Inspirations?
16
Mar
2020
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
These are just a few of the classical authors Churchill read in his self-education as a young man. They form an adjunct to the more recent and direct inspirations, the figures of more recent centuries.
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Andrew Roberts,
Aristotle,
Bourke Cockran,
Cicero,
Duke of Marlborough,
Georges Clemenceau,
Great Contemporaries,
Horatio Nelson,
John Morley,
Justin Lyons,
Leo Strauss,
Lord Randolph Churchill,
Napoleon,
Paul Rahe,
Plato,
Richard M. Langworth,
Shakespeare,
Socrates,
Thucydides,
War of Spanish Succession,
Winston S. Churchill,
Xenophon,
The Timeless Value of Winston Churchill’s “The River War”
22
May
2015
By PAUL RAHE
There was a time, not so long ago, when the study of war, politics, and power was thought to be part and parcel of an undergraduate education. But today, programs in peace studies and in conflict resolution abound; rarely does anyone face up to the fact that conflicts quite often get resolved, and peace achieved, through the successful conduct of war.