Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him; By David Reynolds; Basic Books; 464 pp., $32.50 Meant as a successor volume of sorts to Churchill’s own 1937 work, Great Contemporaries, ...
On Dec. 1, 1943, ending a "Big Three" meeting in Tehran, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston ...
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Winston Churchill, whose resolute leadership and combative spirit rallied Britain when it stood against Nazi Germany in some of the darkest days of World War II, was born in Oxfordshire, England, on ...
Many believe that the Churchill tank, widely used by the United Kingdom during World War II, was named for then-prime ...
It is a regrettable fact of secular history that its key inflection points are wars. We might wish it were otherwise, but it isn't and so we ignore the study of war and its relation to political ...
He ignored Churchill's frankness even as the prime minister encouraged resolve. President Donald Trump has taken to comparing himself to legendary British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to defend ...
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him; By David Reynolds; Basic Books; 464 pp., $32.50 “Winston Churchill appeared to me,” Charles De Gaulle wrote in 1959, “from one end of ...