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Churchill’s Alternative History: Robert E. Lee’s Triumph at Gettysburg

Dec

2020

By PAUL K. ALKON and THE CHURCHILL PROJECT

Churchill’s political imagination allowed him to portray the implausibility of reality: a crucially different turn of history at Gettysburg.

Posted in: Churchill and America, Q & A, The Literary Churchill,

Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Arthur Balfour, Battle of Gettysburg, Benjamin Disraeli, Czar Nicholas II, Emperor Franz Joseph, First World War, Geroge Pickett, Jan Bloch, Jeb Stuart, Jefferson Davis, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Paul K. Alkon, Robert E. Lee, Scribner’s Magazine, Shelby Foote, Theodore Roosevelt, William Edwart Gladstone, Winston S. Churchill, woodrow wilson,

Winston Churchill and the Armenian Genocide, 1914-23

Sep

2020

By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH

Early in the 20th century, Armenian peoples suffered the greatest and bloodiest of all the great mass-slaughters which till then there was record.

Posted in: Asia, Explore,

Tags: Adana massacre, Armenia, Battle of Ypres, Chanak crisis, chemical warfare, David Lloyd George, Enver Pasha, Gallipoli, Hamidian massacres, League of Nations, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Ottoman Empire, Paris Peace Conference, Sir Henry Wilson, Sultan Abdul Hamid II, The Aftermath, Theodore Roosevelt, Treaty of Lausanne, Treaty of Sèvres, Turkey, William Ewart Gladstone, Winston S. Churchill, woodrow wilson, Young Turks,

How Churchill Dodged the Flu Pandemic, and Others Were Not So Lucky

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.

Posted in: Churchill Between the Wars, Explore,

Tags: Cary Grayson, David Lloyd George, Eleanor Roosevelt, Frances Stevenson, Franklin Roosevelt, Georges Clemenceau, John H. Maurer, Lucy Mercer, Margaret Lloyd George, Spanish flu pandemic, Thucydides, Versailles Treaty, Vittorio Orlando, Winston S. Churchill, woodrow wilson,

Churchill: A Million Allied Soldiers to Fight for the White Russians?

Nov

2019

By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH

No evidence exists that Churchill wished to commit a million Allied troops. The British contingent he envisioned was small, and made up of volunteers. Above all, Churchill wanted decision, not hesitation, which he abhorred all his life.

Posted in: Churchill in WWI, Truths and Heresies,

Tags: Alexander Kolchak, Anton Denikin, Austen Chamberlain, David Lloyd George, Ferdinand Foch, George Curzon, Martin Gilbert, Paris Peace Conference, Sir Henry Wilson, Winston S. Churchill, woodrow wilson,

Winston Churchill and Edmund Burke: An Appreciation of Kindred Souls

May

2019

By ANDREW ROBERTS

Sharing Churchill’s appreciation of the wisdom of Edmund Burke, Andrew Roberts compares the two great figures, and wonders what they’d make of Brexit.

Posted in: Explore, Understanding Churchill,