Winston Churchill, Myth and Reality

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Winston Churchill, indispensable when liberty was in peril, died in 1965. Yet he is still accused of numerous sins, from alcoholism and racism to misogyny and warmongering. On the Internet, he simmers in a stew of imagined misdeeds--using poison gas, firebombing Dresden, causing the Bengal famine, and so on.
Drawing on the author's fifty years of research and writing on Churchill, this book uncovers scores of myths surrounding him--the popular and the obscure--to reveal what he really said and did about many issues. Churchill had two personas--one that thought deeply about the nature of humanity, and one that helped solve seemingly intractable problems. In his many decades in public life, he made mistakes, but his faults were well eclipsed by his virtues.

Über den Autor

Richard M. Langworth founded in 1968 the Churchill Study Unit and its journal, Finest Hour, which he edited for 35 years. Since 2014 he has been Senior Fellow for the Churchill Project at Hillsdale College in Michigan. He lives in Moultonborough, New Hampshire, and Eleuthera, Bahamas.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1. Youth

¿1.¿"Chief leader of men"

¿2.¿Jennie's Indiscretions, Jack's Parentage

¿3.¿The Menace of Education

¿4.¿What Killed Lord Randolph?

Part 2. Young Statesman

¿5.¿Votes for Women

¿6.¿The Sinking of the Titanic

¿7.¿The Unpleasantness on Sidney Street

¿8.¿"The sullen feet of marching men in Tonypandy"

¿9.¿Ireland: "We could never have done anything without him"

Part 3. World War

10.¿"All his war paint"

11.¿The Defense of Antwerp

12.¿"What about the Dardanelles?"

13.¿Losing the Lusi

14.¿America and World War I

15.¿Chemical Warfare

Part 4. Between the World Wars

16.¿"Taking more out of alcohol"

17.¿The Bolshevik Menace

18.¿Trial by Jewry

19.¿The Trouble with Mr. Gandhi

20.¿Mussolini, Lawgiver and Jackal

21.¿Hitler as a "Great Contemporary"

Part 5. World War

22.¿The Voice They Heard

23.¿"Collar the lot"

24.¿Torturous Topics

25.¿The Bombing of Coventry

26.¿The Second Front Fracas

27.¿Mad Bomber

28.¿Starving the Indians

29.¿The Brain in Spain Was Absent from the Plane

30.¿The Destruction of Monte Cassino

31.¿What to Do About Auschwitz?

32.¿Feeding the Oppressed

Part 6. Postwar Years

33.¿Spheres of Influence

34.¿Nuking Moscow

35.¿Trouble 'n' Strife

36.¿On European Union

37.¿The Common Touch

Appendix 1. Minor Myths, Fables and Things That Go Bump in the Night

Appendix 2. Red Herrings: Mythological Churchill Quotes

Appendix 3. The Hillsdale College Churchill Project

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Details

Empfohlen (von):	18
Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781476674605
ISBN-10:	1476674604
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Langworth, Richard M.
Hersteller:	McFarland
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	254 x 178 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	Richard M. Langworth
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.11.2017
Gewicht:	0,492 kg