Churchill gave his famous ‘Iron Curtain’ Speech in 1946 These events took place at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury and the National Churchill Mus...
Finest Hour 176, Spring 2017 Page 36 By Lewis E Lehrman In peace and in war, Abraham Lincoln became a master of his craft by intense study Military historian T Harry...
Finest Hour 176, Spring 2017 Page 47 Review by Warren Dockter Jonathan Asbury, Secrets of Churchill’s War Rooms, Imperial War Museum, 2016, 224 pages, £30/$45 ISBN: 978–1904897491 Visiting the Churchill War Rooms...
Finest Hour 176, Spring 2017 Page 48 Review by Douglas S Russell Andrew Dewar Gibb, With Winston Churchill at the Front, Frontline Books, 2016, 256 pages, $3995/£1999 ISBN 978-1848324299 In the past...
Fighting is vigorously proceeding, and we shall see who can stand the bucketing best — Briton or Boer.
On his return to London from India, Churchill – keen to get into politics – made a speech at a political meeting in Bradford. But he also desperately wanted to join Kitchener’s army in the Sudan: he saw action in the field – and writing about it – as a way to gain further attention. Persistent as ever, Churchill managed to obtain a temporary commission as a Lieutenant with the 21 Lancers while again also serving as a war correspondent, this time for the . In August 1898 he set off on his next adventure – travelling up the Nile with the expeditionary force under General Kitchener.
A postcard, titled ‘Offensive against Antwerp’ depicting the scene on 8 October 1914 Private collection of Wolfgang Sauber copyright: By Anonymous (private collection of Wolfgang Sauber (Xenophon)) [Public domain or...
Here he writes to his brother, Jack, who was with the forces in the Dardanelles, saying ‘the vital thing is not to break off because of losses but to persevere This...
Churchill ‘during one of his darkest hours’, 1916, by Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, oil on canvas copyright: Lent by the Churchill Chattels Trust; Image National Portrait Gallery, London...
Nazi troops entering Vienna, Austria, to ‘cheers’ from crowds, 15 March 1938 copyright: Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1985-083-10 / CC-BY-SA [CC-BY-SA-30-de (...
