Finest Hour 173, Summer 2016 Page 46 Nial Barr, Eisenhower’s Armies: The American-British Alliance during World War II, Pegasus Books, 2015, 544 pages, $35 ISBN: 978–1605988160 Review by Nigel Hamilton Nigel Hamilton is senior fellow...

Introduced by Richard M Langworth...

Accompanied by his eighteen-year-old son Randolph , his brother Jack and his nephew, Churchill’s touring party set off across Canada After a railway trip from Quebec to Vancouver, they crossed the...

Invented by Dr James Naismith in 1891, the original game of basketball was played at the YMCA International Training School with a football and two peach baskets nailed ten feet off...

In America it was a similar story Voting was largely confined to wealthy men until 1870 when the 15th Amendment to the US Constitution declared ‘the right of citizens of the...

In the United States, Nelson Jackson and his friend, Sewall Crocker were the first to cross the country in an automobile The trip in 1903 lasted sixty three days – many...

This cultural sea change in Britain and around the world is epitomised by the music of the time While British popular culture tended to be heavily influenced by North America, British...

When Churchill was eighty eight he was asked by the Duke of Edinburgh how he’d like to be remembered. He reportedly replied that he’d like a scholarship named after him. A Foundation was created as a vehicle for the Churchill Scholarship in July 1959. Now called the Winston Churchill Foundation of the US, it’s a reminder of Anglo–US cooperation and friendship.

Churchill had a period of leave and managed to obtain his first assignment as a war correspondent for the newspaper. He was reporting on the rebellion against Spanish rule by guerilla rebels in Cuba when he first came under fire. (It was also in Cuba that he first developed his well-known taste for fine Cuban cigars. He was attached to the Spanish forces as an observer but his writings reveal considerable sympathies for the Cuban rebels.)