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
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
Above: Paris, 11 November 1944. From Diana in Algiers, 12 August 1944: “Duckling’s telegram announcing his arrival added a message to Wormwood to the effect that he would be happy to shake his hand.... No good; Worm would rather not. So Duckling arrived and walked across the beautiful morning-lit court in khaki with harlequin chest, heavy and weary, a little infirm and unsmiling, but in ten minutes the talk began to flow and, with the flow, the grins and fun, the youth and strength.” Th...| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
De Gaulle said Churchill was leading Britain “towards the heights of one of the greatest glories in the history of the world.” Speaking in English with tears in his eyes, Churchill recalled his broadcast to France in October 1940: “I did not fear to address the French people in French to tell them that a day would come when France would take her place at the head of the great nations and play her part as the champion of liberty and independence.” The post Eighty Years On: Churchill in...| 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