Finest Hour 129, Winter 2005-06
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Book Announcement – Becoming Winston Churchill Read More >
Finest Hour 129
In this Issue
- Book Announcement – Becoming Winston Churchill
- 3. From the Canon – The United States of Europe
- Inside The Journals – Whence the AASR?*
- A Tour de Force on Churchill and Canada
- But This One is Utterly Optional
- Books, Arts & Curiosities – Churchill As Soldier / A standard Work
- Action This Day – Winter 1880-81, 1905-06, 1930-31, 1955-56
- In Search of Jennie’s Birthplace
- Churchill: A Man Who Believed
- Wit & Wisdom
- Student Correspondence – Pondering the Wilderness Years
- The Statesman John Kennedy Admired Most
- Great Contemporaries – Churchill and Patton
- English-Speaking Peoples – Wartime Questions Today: The Doctrine ff Preemption
- Wartime Questions to Postwar Answers: Riddles of War
- Riddles, Mysteries, Enigamas – Churchill’s Uniforms
- Around & About
- UK News – Wedding of the Year 1908
- Datelines
- President’s Letter – @ The Centre
- Despatch Box
Book Announcement – Becoming Winston Churchill
3. From the Canon – The United States of Europe
Finest Hour 129, Winter 2005-06
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3. From the Canon – The United States of Europe
By Winston S. Churchill, 1938 • Part I Read More >
Inside The Journals – Whence the AASR?*
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Inside The Journals – Whence the AASR?*
*THE ANGLO-AMERICAN SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP, coined by Churchill and regularly dredged up by politicians of all stripes and both sides of the Atlantic, is questioned anew… Read More >
A Tour de Force on Churchill and Canada
Finest Hour 129, Winter 2005-06
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A Tour de Force on Churchill and Canada
The Great Dominion: Winston Churchill in Canada, 1900-1954, by David Dilks. Foreword by The Lady Soames LG DBE. Toronto: Thomas Allen Publishers, 457 pp., illus., C$45. Member price $XX
By Barry Gough
Professor Gough, is a member of The Churchill Centre College of Fellows, historian of the Royal Navy and Canada, professor emeritus of Wilfrid Laurier University, Archives Fellow of Churchill College, and past President of The Organization for the History of Canada. Read More >
But This One is Utterly Optional
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But This One is Utterly Optional
Winston Churchill: His Military Life 1895-1945, by Michael Paterson. David and Charles, 308 pages, £20. Member price $35.
By Paul H. Courtenay Read More >
Books, Arts & Curiosities – Churchill As Soldier / A standard Work
Finest Hour 129, Winter 2005-06
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Books, Arts & Curiosities – Churchill As Soldier / A standard Work
Winston Churchill—Soldier: The Military Life of a Gentleman at War, by Douglas S. Russell. Brassey’s, 388 pages, £20.
By Paul H. Courtenay Read More >
Action This Day – Winter 1880-81, 1905-06, 1930-31, 1955-56
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Action This Day – Winter 1880-81, 1905-06, 1930-31, 1955-56
By Michael McMenamin Read More >
In Search of Jennie’s Birthplace
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In Search of Jennie’s Birthplace
By David Druckman
David and Lynn Druckman live in Chicago and Tucson when they are not traveling the world, often in search of arcane Churchilliana. See David’s “South African Escape,” FH 47, “Coming to Grips with Gallipoli,” FH 90, and “Hotel Mamounia, Morocco,” FH 108. Read More >
Churchill: A Man Who Believed
Finest Hour 129, Winter 2005-06
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Churchill: A Man Who Believed
By John Ramsden
Dr. Ramsden, is Professor of Modern History at Queen Mary College, London, Vice Chairman of The Churchill Centre’s academic advisers and author of Man of the Century: Winston Churchill and His Legend Since 1945. Reprinted by courtesy of the author from The Tablet of 29 January 2005 which also provided the artwork. Read More >
Wit & Wisdom
Finest Hour 129, Winter 2005-06
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Wit & Wisdom Read More >
Student Correspondence – Pondering the Wilderness Years
Finest Hour 129, Winter 2005-06
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Student Correspondence – Pondering the Wilderness Years Read More >
The Statesman John Kennedy Admired Most
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The Statesman John Kennedy Admired Most
By Fred Glueckstein
Mr. Glueckstein is a Maryland writer. His “Winston Churchill and Colonist II” appeared in FH 125, Winter 2004-05. We thank Churchill Centre Trustee Christopher Matthews, author of Kennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry that Shaped Postwar America, for kindly reviewing this manuscript and allowing quotations from his book. The drawing on this spread is by Curtis Hooper, commissioned by Sarah Churchill for her series of intaglio prints, “A Visual Philosophy of Sir Winston Churchill,” 1970s. (See FH 117, 120.) Read More >
Great Contemporaries – Churchill and Patton
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Great Contemporaries – Churchill and Patton
By John Marshman
Mr. Marshman is a member of ICS (UK). We are grateful to The Churchill Archives Centre Cambridge for permission to quote the Churchill-Patton correspondence from the file CHUR 02/142/031. Read More >
English-Speaking Peoples – Wartime Questions Today: The Doctrine ff Preemption
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English-Speaking Peoples – Wartime Questions Today: The Doctrine ff Preemption
By Geogre F. Will Read More >
Wartime Questions to Postwar Answers: Riddles of War
Finest Hour 129, Winter 2005-06
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Wartime Questions to Postwar Answers: Riddles of War
By Christopher C. Harmon
Professor Harmon is a Churchill Centre academic adviser who for four years offered a course based on Churchill’s memoirs, The Second World War, at the Marines’ Command & Staff College, Quantico, Virginia. The author thanks Charles Robert Harmon, Professor Emeritus of History at Seattle University, for reviewing his draft manuscript. Read More >
