This is such a passionate and sweet account by Churchill. I know I'm going to return to reading passages of it again, because the sentiment is so spot-on. There is an abundance of beauty in the world — and his talk of appreciation of simple pleasures and the immersion of trying to render the esse...
TODO: -- The summary of this book, in Churchill's words: "A deadlock supervened and was not relieved for eight months of severe fighting, which will be presently recounted."Churchill, Winston (2010-07-01). Closing the Ring (Winston Churchill World War II Collection) (Kindle Location 3957). Rosett...
A speech should stir one to action: either to cast off despair at the very least or at the most to plunge forward without looking back. No one since Churchill has had this effect in our modern day. He had the background that really none have in this age to lead in difficult times. I read this boo...
Winston Churchill's comprehensive recounting of the World War II based on his remembrances continues with this, the third edition of six. It almost entirely involves the tumultuous year of 1941, when Great Britain was fighting almost single-handedly against Germany and Italy in the Balkans, Greec...
This is the last of Churchill's volumes on WWII. This one had a different tone than the other ones. Perhaps because the issues in this volume had not been resolved at the time of writing, or perhaps because Churchill himself was disappointed at how things ultimately turned out (apart from winning...
The page numbers in the following review correspond to the hardbound copy of the book rather than the paperback pictured.The second volume in Churchill's memoirs concerning his period as prime minister, like the first in the series, is not as much to be read as pondered. It is almost more of a da...
from the west. If there were any way of capturing Bordeaux within the present fighting season by a thrust from the Gulf of Lions, and thus opening Bordeaux and other smaller ports near it to the advance across the ocean of the main United States Army, this would clearly take priority over any pur...
and others.1.II.39.It was arranged at a conference between the First Lord, the First Sea Lord and the C.-in-C. on Nelson, October 31, 1939, that the following arrangements should be made at Fleet bases:1. Scapa cannot be available, except as a momentary refuelling base for the Fleet, before the s...