Category: Winston Churchill
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My Favorite Newsweek Cover
With the demise of the print version of Newsweek, it is worth discussing my favorite cover. Anyone looking through old news magazines before and during World War II can look no further than Newsweek for dramatic, relevant covers and reporting on the war. Browsing the covers of Time or Life will give the impression there…
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A Closer Look at Churchill’s Battle of the Bulge Quote
The Battle of the Bulge Monument at the Valley Forge Military Academy and College prominently displays a quote from Winston Churchill (1874-1965), “This is undoubtedly the greatest American battle of the war, and will, I believe be regarded as an ever famous American victory.” Although inspiring, this is not the full quote or the full…
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Churchill’s Earliest Warning About Hitler
Throughout the 1930’s, Winston Churchill spoke out concerning German rearmament, Britain’s lack of comparable military strength, and Adolf Hitler. Churchill spent most of the decade a mere Member of Parliament and not a member of the British Cabinet. By July of 1939, the British newspapers would demand overwhelmingly that Churchill be made a member of…
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These Men Beat Hitler
Years ago, my mom sent me an 8×11 photo of Churchill, FDR, and Stalin at the Yalta Conference. She knows my love for history and she envisioned me hanging this on my wall at work. I did. The photo has followed me from job to job in my career. I am astonished at the amount…
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Churchill’s Efforts to Feed Germany after the Great War
Reprinted by permission of Finest Hour, Number 145, Winter 2009-10, The Churchill Centre and Museum at the Cabinet War Rooms, London (www.winstonchurchill.org). Text copyright © Scott Manning 2010. With America’s entry into the First World War in 1917, the Allies finally had enough ships and manpower to implement a full naval blockade on Germany. The…
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Churchill, Buchanan, and the Unnecessary Book Part 1
Military historian John Keegan once said that historians “are committed to controversy as a way of life.” ((John Keegan, The Battle for History: Re-Fighting World War II (New York: Vintage Books, 1996), 28.)) Patrick J. Buchanan, the man who referred to the 1992 Democratic National Convention as the “greatest single exhibition of cross-dressing in American political history,” is certainly…
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Why Study Winston Churchill?
The purpose of this presentation is to give people an understanding why Churchill is worth studying today. The presentation takes look at why most of us remember Churchill, an overview of his political and writing careers, and how recent leaders saw him. Sources The Ronald Reagan quotes come from a letter sent to the…
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“Hitler and His Choice”, Churchill’s Misquoted Words
Critics of Winston Churchill have been quick to quote lines from an article entitled “The Truth About Hitler”. ((Available in Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill Volume V Companion Part 3 Documents: The Coming of War, 1936-1939 (London: Heinemann, 1982), 903-904.)) It was originally written in November of 1935 ((Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill: Vol. 5, Prophet of Truth, 1922-1939…
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“Friendship with Germany” by Winston Churchill (Sep 17, 1937)
The following is one of many articles written by Winston Churchill for the Evening Standard. This is an often quoted article used by critics of Churchill to give the impression that at one point he held uncharacteristic admiration for Hitler. These critics will quote portions from the second-to-last paragraph with no other context in order to…
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What Did Churchill Mean by “Unnecessary War”?
Patrick J. Buchanan’s Churchill, Hitler, and the “Unnecessary War” gets part of its title from a quote by Winston Churchill. Buchanan has brought the term up in several interviews a statement made by Winston Churchill in his memoirs. One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be…
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Buchanan’s Source on Churchill’s “Starvation Blockade”
This is a follow-up article to Buchanan is Wrong. Churchill Had No “Starvation Blockade” published last month. In that article, we showed how in Patrick J. Buchanan’s new book Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War”, he incorrectly portrayed the blockade of Germany during World War I as something devised and executed entirely by Winston Churchill. Buchanan also incorrectly…
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“Human Smoke” on Churchill and the Blockade of Germany
Nicholson Baker’s Human Smoke was released this year and aimed to be a provocative book containing a series of little-known quotes and events between World War I and World War II. The structure of the book is interesting in the sense that there is no real cohesion from page to page except that it’s all…