Finest Hour 170, Fall 2015 Page 42 Review by Richard Toye Richard Hayton and Andrew S Crines, eds, Conservative Orators from Baldwin to Cameron, Manchester  University Press, 2015,  x 264 pages, £75 ISBN 978-0719097249...

Finest Hour 170, Fall 2015 Page 38 Review by Richard A McConnell Mike Lepine, Churchill and the Generals , Danann Publishing, 2015, 136 pages, £2999/$5500 ISBN 978-0993016944...

Finest Hour 170, Fall 2015 Page 36 Review by Ashley Jackson Warren Dockter, Churchill and the Islamic World, I B Tauris, 2014, 288 pages, £2500 / $4000 ISBN 978-1780768182...

Finest Hour 170, Fall 2015 Page 04 By David Freeman, October 2015 The Middle East is never not in the news Winston Churchill’s involvement with the Jewish and Muslim worlds, however, began well...

One would have thought that if there was one cause in the world which the Conservative party would have hastened to defend, it would be the cause of the British Empire in India … Our fight is hard. It will also be long … But win or lose, we must do our duty. If the British people are to lose their Indian Empire, they shall do so with their eyes open.

When Hitler began, Germany lay prostrate at the feet of the Allies. He may yet see the day when what is left of Europe will be prostrate at the feet of Germany.

Introduced by Richard M Langworth...

It was in his role as a senior statesman with considerable international prestige that Churchill felt he could influence global relations. He wanted, above all, to establish constructive relations with Moscow through ‘summit’ conferences of world leaders. He felt that face-to-face meetings – at the ‘summit’ – would be the best way to try to secure world peace, and so coined the term and set out his agenda. However, the ‘three’ with whom he had built rapport during the Second World War were no longer alongside him; Roosevelt had died in 1945 and Stalin, in 1953. Churchill was the sole remaining leader of the ‘grand alliance’. But, feeling strongly that it was only by negotiation that the nuclear arms race could be halted and détente established, he tried to re-establish that ’special relationship’ with the US and encouraged Eisenhower, who’d been elected President in 1952, to consider meeting up with the new Soviet leader, Khrushchev.

This telegram of “hearty congratulations” on his engagement to Clementine (in 1908) from an anonymous Manchester suffragette (sometimes attributed to Emmeline Pankhurst) plays on his words copyright: Churchill Archives...