Finest Hour 172, Spring 2016 Page 45 Review by Catherine Katz All of the books described in this review can be found through online sites such as Amazon There are various statistics floating around...

Finest Hour 172, Spring 2016 Page 24 By Aissa Wayne My father had two great heroes One was John Ford, the legendary film director who propelled him into stardom The other was Winston Churchill...

Finest Hour 171, Winter 2016 Page 50 The River War: Churchill’s Firsthand Account of the Charge at Omdurman Lines printed in bold italics appeared in the first edition of The River War but not...

To sit at one’s table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen – that is true happiness.

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...

A page from the galley proofs The Second World War, Vol VI (about the race to Berlin), heavily annotated with rewriting, deletions, substitutions Churchill had to get every word and phrase...

I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing.

The train was romanticised in countless works of art These include the poem ‘This is the Night Mail’ by WH Auden, which demonstrates that the rail network was not only used...

Churchill writing at his desk in the post-war years copyright: Reproduced from the Baroness Spencer Churchill Papers with the permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd, London, on behalf of the...