Winston S. Churchill

The Parker opus: “No matter how much the details of Churchill and his career become known, he still remains, quite simply, a great man.”

However repulsive Chips was, after this first volume, masterfully edited by Simon Heffer, readers will be eager for the rest.

There’s nothing wrong with the “brief life,” which serves an important educational purpose. Hanson falls short, while accepting many myths.

“This essay on importance of relations with Stalin in shaping the Churchill-Roosevelt relationship, is a brief historical gem.” —Nigel Lawson

Savrola expresses the statesman’s prudence to restore civic liberty—constitutionally if possible: “All my philosophy,” he wrote, “is put into the mouth of the hero.”

Did Churchill turn somersaults over the Soviets? Yes and with good reason. We understand events better through good historians, and hindsight.

Joseph Kennedy or the French generals? The origins of a famous oratorical flourish, on how Britain turned out to be one tough chicken.

If any one event ended imperial Britain, it was Suez, which also saw last significant intervention by Winston Churchill in world affairs.

How Jack Johnson proved as good a lawyer as he was a boxer; and how Winston Churchill proved a better politician than Lord Stanhope. The reality behind another unfounded Churchill calumny.

Young Winston 12 decades ago—and a speculation about just how rough his escape became at South Africa’s Witbank colliery.

On Monarchy: “It is natural for Parliaments to talk and for the Crown to shine…. We are never likely to run short of Ministers who can talk.”

Churchill took criticisms of his Fulton speech calmly, and never backed off. He knew he’d been right & within three years he was vindicated.