Finest Hour 170, Fall 2015 Page 06 By David Patterson Professor David Patterson holds the Hillel A Feinberg Chair in Holocaust Studies in the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at The University of Texas...

Winston Churchill visited Leeds on 16 May 1942 at the height of the Second World War Jane Brechner, the great-granddaughter of Lord Mayor, Hyman Morris, provided the accompanying family photos of her great-grandfather...

Finest Hour 145, Winter 2009-10 Page 30 Eye-Witness to Potsdam: He Enjoyed Being Winston Churchill I Saw Him Depressed Only Once...

by Martin Gilbert Finest Hour 141, Winter 2008-09 Although Finest Hour has covered this subject before we asked Sir Martin...

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Put your confidence in us – give us your faith and your blessing and under Providence all will be well. We shall not fail or falter, we shall not weaken or tire – neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long drawn trails of vigilance or exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

The meeting was therefore symbolic … It symbolizes … the deep underlying unities which stir and at decisive moments rule the English-speaking peoples throughout the world … the marshalling of the good forces of the world against the evil forces which are now so formidable and triumphant …

…this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning.

Now… we have a new experience. We have victory – a remarkable and definite victory. The bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers and warmed and cheered all our hearts.

… I doubt whether anyone feels greater sorrow or pain than those who are responsible for the general conduct of our affairs.