“Rab said he thought that the good clean tradition of English politics, that of Pitt as opposed to Fox, had been sold to the greatest adventurer of modern political history.... He believed this sudden coup of Winston and his rabble was a serious disaster and an unnecessary one: the “pass had been sold” by Mr. C[hamberlain], Lord Halifax and Oliver Stanley. They had weakly surrendered to a half-breed American whose main support was that of inefficient but talkative people of a simi...| Richard M. Langworth
There’s a way to derive a mostly correct picture of the man from this show: ignore Part 1. The other three parts also suffer from occasional forays into fiction. But they are more accurate, with honest dialogue, well-chosen quotations and spectacular footage, much of it freshly colorized. Kudos to Andrew Roberts, Jon Meacham, Allen Packwood and Catherine Katz for keeping it on track, and to Lord Roberts for his eloquent finale.| Richard M. Langworth
The legacy of Robert Hampton Gray The post A Formidable Pilot appeared first on Legion Magazine.| Legion Magazine
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"He writes with passion, sensitivity and somehow retains his composure even in face of the worst details of the story he is telling."| Writers Review
My maternal grandfather was not a talkative man. He grew up next to a city that bore, ironically, the name “little city” Gorodok in what is now Ukraine. It was the Soviet Republic of Ukraine. And, …| thegrailquest
Was there any pushback to the Pat Buchanan book, Churchill, Hitler and the “Unnecessary War” (2009)? It questioned Churchill’s judgment over his whole life, but particularly his decision to fight on in 1940. I’m sure there has been, but could you give me a citation? —W.M. The post Pat Buchanan and the Art of the Selective Quote appeared first on The Churchill Project - Hillsdale College.| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
A volunteer at The National Archives has won a London Heritage Volunteer Award for her outstanding work. Katrina Lidbetter won the Going the Extra Mile category in the annual awards managed by London Heritage Volunteering Group. She is one of a team of 22 volunteers who catalogued 203,000 Second World War POW record cards at […]| News Archives - The National Archives
The interview between Sir John Major and Nick Robinson, recorded for the BBC World Service. NICK ROBINSON For this interview,| The Rt. Hon. Sir John Major KG CH
The interview with Sir John Major broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s the Today Programme on 8 May 2025.| The Rt. Hon. Sir John Major KG CH
Millions of people took to the streets of Britain on 8 May 1945 to celebrate VE Day – the day when the German armed forces signed an unconditional surrender, and the Second World War in Europe finally came to an end. Hanging bunting, waving flags, drinking and dancing, the streets were crammed with joyous revellers...| HistoryExtra
"Winston was enormously witty. He spoke of 'this great country nosing from door to door like a cow that has lost its calf, mooing dolefully, now in Berlin and now in Rome—when all the time the tiger and the alligator wait for its undoing.' Don't be worried, my darling. I am not going to become one of the Winston brigade." —Harold Nicolson, March 1938. "But really he has got guts, that man. Imagine the effect of his speech in the Empire and the USA. I felt a great army of men and women of ...| The Churchill Project - Hillsdale College
The principles set out in the Atlantic Charter eighty years ago remain key to the global vision shared by the UK and US. But its terms also contained the roots of international tensions that persist today: for example in relation …| history.blog.gov.uk
The only thing true about this claim is that Churchill did not use the word “Holocaust” in his frequent references to wartime genocide.| The Churchill Project - Hillsdale College
Freyberg was “Churchill’s kind of general, confident, aggressive, and physically brave,” dedicated to victory in the greatest of all wars.| The Churchill Project - Hillsdale College
After several clangers in Part 1, Netflix gets down to the war: the quandary over bombing Auschwitz; the wartime summit conferences; concerns over D-Day (if nothing about how Churchill made D-Day possible). Thanks to input by Andrew Roberts, Allen Packwood, Catherine Gale Katz and Jon Meacham, the wartime coverage is accurate, the footage admirable, the commentary balanced. The post Netflix on “Churchill at War”: Not For the Unwary appeared first on The Churchill Project - Hillsdale College.| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
One wonders where people come up with these stories. Of course, a long-running conspiracy theory holds that Churchill wrote plaintive letters urging Mussolini not to wage war alongside Hitler. (If the dictators ever received such letters, they certainly would have taken every opportunity to publicize them.) But this is the first we’ve heard that Churchill was upset over Mussolini’s demise. Quite the opposite, it appears from eye-witness accounts of his reactions and a letter to his wife. ...| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
Churchill’s role in D-Day is a matter of some controversy. This book looks at the great invasion in its context, the culmination of years of planning and preparation, as the decision-makers saw it amidst the challenges of their time. The first chapter is titled “Hindsight is a Wonderful Thing.” Happily, hindsight is avoided here. This approach mirrors that of Churchill himself, as explained in his memoirs of the Second World War. Churchill’s method reminds us that human beings must ma...| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
September 17th: “We had a picnic lunch on the way by a stream, sparkling in hot sunshine. I felt oddly oppressed with my memories.... No one had ever been over the same terrible course twice with such an interval between.... Fisher, Wilson, Battenberg, Jellicoe, Beatty, Pakenham, Sturdee, all gone! ‘I feel like one, Who treads alone, Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed!’” The post The Churchill Day Book, 1939: “What Price C...| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
In both the WW1 and WW2 memoirs, we must be grateful the author was a professional writer. Churchill set out the story from his and Britain's standpoint. “In his speeches during the war and his memoirs afterwards, he often ignored unpleasant facts, or put his own spin on them. Yet few writers were so magnanimous, refusing for example to criticize his predecessors for the sake of unity and the national effort.” The post Questions and Answers on Churchill’s WW2 Memoirs appeared first on T...| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
“The cousin of the Duke of Marlborough, Churchill had a better claim to being aristocratic than many of those who affected to look down on him,” wrote Graham Stewart. Labeling him a “half-breed American” went round for a few weeks after Churchill took over. If the fair-minded among the Respectable Tendency quickly changed their minds, others never did. The former saw in Churchill a quality he himself cited when asked for the most important characteristic of a statesman: “Mettle.” ...| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
Winston Churchill, of course, like any human, had flaws and made blunders, be it Gallipoli, the Gold Standard, the Abdication crisis, or the India Act. However, his actions in the Second World War trumped his mistakes by saving civilization from Nazi and fascist tyranny. Regardless of Mr. Cooper, this truth will always shine through in the history of mankind. The post Debunking Tucker Carlson’s Darryl Cooper Interview appeared first on The Churchill Project - Hillsdale College.| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
“Looking back upon the unceasing tumult of the war,” Churchill wrote, “I cannot recall any period when its stresses and the onset of so many problems all at once or in rapid succession bore directly on me and my colleagues than the first half of 1941.” By the end of the year Pearl Harbor had brought the United States into the war and he thankfully concluded: “We had won after all!” The post The Churchill Day Book for 1941: The Grand Alliance appeared first on The Churchill Project...| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
It’s not new: There has always been an American polemic that the United States’ involvement in the Second World War was unnecessary and unwinnable. What makes this latest version interesting, and worrisome, is the way it sees Winston Churchill as a primary aggressor, instead of the nakedly genocidal, tyrannical, and racist Führer of Germany, Adolf Hitler. The post Truth About Nazi Germany and the Second World War appeared first on The Churchill Project - Hillsdale College.| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
In sum, Germany and its fascist allies started World War II, initiated the mass warring on civilians, and institutionalized genocide. They felt empowered to do so not because of Allied aggression or terrorism, but because of initial appeasement, American isolationism, and Russian collaboration. That is what enticed Hitler and the Axis into starting a war they soon had no chance of winning, once their formidable enemies embraced the prior Axis notion of total war. The post Reply to Darryl Coop...| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
No, Churchill did not send fleets of firebombers to kill innocent women and children in the Schwarzwald. “The reason why this kind of nonsense passes for history is that standards for evidence have virtually disappeared. The standard is not exactly rocket science. Remnant evidence is better than tradition-creating evidence. Corroborated testimony is better than uncorroborated testimony. Forensic evidence is better than hearsay.” The post “Opium for the People”: The Myth of Firebombing...| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
For a person’s misdeeds to truly stand out during the atrocities of WW2 they must… The post Dr. Satan: The Terrifying French Serial Killer of WW2 Paris appeared first on Historic Mysteries.| Historic Mysteries
Explore the changing architectural styles of the English high street.| The Historic England Blog
Guy Ritchie delivers a good mix of intrigue, violence, humor and shenanigans in this atypical World War II film very loosely based on historical events.| Never Was
Get a different perspective on England’s long military history with aerial photography from the Aerofilms Collection.| The Historic England Blog
Discover this rare early example of fully accessible architecture.| The Historic England Blog
This blog post was written by Jane Rosen and Dominic Hewett, Research Support Librarians at IWM London, for History Day 2023 and explores library material relating to the IWM’s current exhibition IWM’s new exhibition Spies, Lies and Deception opened in October with audience expectations of James Bond martinis and inventive car chases, or the love affairs of […]| History Collections
Dive into a unique collection from 1920 to 1954 produced by the world’s first commercial aerial photography company.| The Historic England Blog
These pioneering women led the way in making engineering a career choice for all women.| The Historic England Blog
