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
Being out of office was not altogether debilitating. Churchill had more time to write and to earn money, which he always needed. He wrote extensively for four newspapers, and began research for what would be his greatest biography, “Marlborough: His Life and Times.” He published two other books and countless articles, while entertaining guests as varied as film star Charlie Chaplin and suffragette Christabel Pankhurst. The post The Churchill Day Book for 1931 appeared first on The Churchi...| 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