Winston Churchill

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/4/2022
  

  Richard Overy's New Book Tells WWII as Global History of Imperial Conflict

  by Daniel Immerwahr

  "Whatever else the Second World War was about, it was, on both sides, a war for empire."

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• 4/18/2021
  

  Review: "The Third Man: Churchill, Roosevelt, Mackenzie King, and the Untold Friendships that Won WWII"

  by Walter G. Moss

  Canadian Prime Minister William Mackenzie King kept a voluminous diary that is an incredible source of insight into his role as a witness (and often an influencer) to the wartime and post-World War II leadership of Roosevelt and Churchill. A new book distills the 30,000 pages of the diary. 

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• 4/4/2021
  

  Pamela, Randolph and Winston: The Wartime Discord of the Churchills

  by Josh Ireland

  The recent Royal Family drama had nothing on the relationship of Winston Churchill and his son Randolph, which was thrown into tumult by the younger Churchill's marital problems at the onset of World War II. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  3/17/2021
  

  Why Can't Britain Handle the Truth about Winston Churchill?

  by Priyamvada Gopal

  "Churchill was an admired wartime leader who recognised the threat of Hitler in time and played a pivotal role in the allied victory. It should be possible to recognise this without glossing over his less benign side."

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• SOURCE: WBRZ
  3/2/2021
  

  Rare Winston Churchill Painting Kept in a NOLA Family's Closet for Over 5 Decades Recently Sold for Millions by Angelina Jolie

  Churchill painted the scene the day after the January, 1943 Casablanca Conference meeting with Franklin Roosevelt to strategize for the defeat of Nazi Germany. 

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• 10/11/2020
  

  Who Owns Churchill?: Three Mythic Configurations

  by Steven Fielding, Bill Schwarz, and Richard Toye

  A new book examines the ways that Winston Churchill's image has been used in British politics, not least by Churchill himself.

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• SOURCE: The Times (London)
  7/23/2020
  

  Historians blast BBC for ‘unbalanced’ News At Ten report on Churchill

  Historians have criticised a BBC News report on Tuesday about Churchill’s role in the Bengal Famine, which killed three million people in 1943 and 1944. The report arguably blamed Churchill's racism without considering other material factors that lead to 3 million deaths. 

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  6/6/2020
  

  White House Compares Trump-Churchill Leadership Styles, and Historians Scoff

  British and American historians objected to the White House's comparison of Trump's leadership to Churchill's. 

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• 3/15/2020
  

  Churchill, Stalin and the Legacy of the Grand Alliance: An Interview with Professor Geoffrey Roberts

  by Aaron J. Leonard

  Geoffrey Roberts assesses the history and legacy of the wartime alliance and political relationship between Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  11/26/19
  

  The History of “History is Written by the Victors”

  Many attribute the adage to Winston Churchill, but it turns out he was just rewriting some losers.

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• 12/1/2019
  

  Neville Chamberlain, Sir Horace Wilson, & Britain's Plight of Appeasement

  by Adrian Phillips

  The history of appeasement is intertwined with the history of Churchill.

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• 11/3/19
  

  Churchill and Stalin: Comrades-in-Arms during World War Two

  by Geoffrey Roberts

  Neither the formation of what Churchill later called the Grand Alliance nor its collapse was inevitable. The Grand Alliance was willed into existence by its leaders and then sustained through four years of total war. It was one the most successful alliances in history. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  10/20/19
  

  Have you heard of the catastrophic men theory of history? Step forward Boris Johnson...

  by Nick Cohen

  Self-interested and reckless leadership defines too much of our past – and present.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  9/16/19
  

  Solid Gold Toilet Stolen From Winston Churchill's Family Palace

  The 18-karat gold toilet disappeared from Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Winston Churchill, on September 14 - only two days after the palace installed it as part of an art exhibition by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/12/19
  

  The Missouri Museum That Churchill Built

  The exhibition focuses on Churchill’s journey, but it builds context through immersive galleries of World War I trenches, the rise of fascism in Europe, and the London Blitz.

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• 2/10/19
  

  Book Review: Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny (2018)

  by Jeff Roquen

  Although more than one thousand books have been written on his life, the recently-published Churchill: Walking with Destiny (2018) by Andrew Roberts merits consideration as the newly definitive one-volume biography of its subject.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  10-24-18 (accessed)
  

  When Churchill Dissed America

  by Andrew Roberts

  Andrew Roberts reports in his new Churchill biography that the Prime Minister harbored a secret hostility to the United States.

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• SOURCE: The Telegraph
  10-6-18
  

  Churchill's 'black dog' is a myth and he never suffered depression, says historian

  Andrew Roberts says the phrase “black dog” had a different meaning at the beginning of the 20th century and did not refer to mental health.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6-19-18
  

  If postwar history starts in 1951, did the UK Tories ‘blue-wash’ the A-level syllabus?

  Critics say the curriculum over-emphasizes the study of Winston Churchill.

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• SOURCE: iNews
  3-19-18
  

  “Civilisations" presenter David Olusoga blames Winston Churchill for war crimes in Africa

  He says claims about the darker side of the former Prime Minster’s past are often drowned out by his status as a wartime leader.