Finest Hour 174, Autumn 2016 Page 43 Alan Watson, Churchill’s Legacy: Two Speeches to Save the World, Bloomsbury, 2016, 204 pages, $25/£1699 978–1408880210 Review by Peter Clarke Peter Clarke’s new book, The Locomotive of War:...

Dr Warren Dockter writes on Churchill’s response to the end of the war...

Read below for an excerpt of Churchill’s own recollection of Armistice Day, from his memoirs, The...

In 1938, with the final volume of The World Crisis finally out of the way and his political career in the doldrums, Churchill launched himself on another big project As always,...

Churchill gave many speeches for which he became famous, but his ‘Finest Hour’ speech stands alone as one of his most memorable and inspiring Several weeks...

Churchill also travelled further afield In 1907, while in Uganda, he took part in a safari, hunting animals like impalas and rhinoceroses (although he always believed the animals were ‘in the...

It’s not often remembered that Churchill was a writer of fiction – Savrola is easily forgotten – but he did write various counterfactual history – or fantasy – stories Read...

Introduction The 2017 movie the Darkest Hour focuses on the Nazi war on Western Europe in May/June 1940[2] In the film, Prime Minister Winston Churchill is portrayed as a wordsmith and orator that uses...

In 1932 Churchill was visiting battlefields in Germany as part of his research for writing a biography of his great ancestor John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough In November,...