Richard M. Langworth

Winston Churchill, Myth and Reality

What He Actually Did and Said

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 492g
• ISBN-13: 9781476674605
• ISBN-10: 1476674604
• Artikelnr.: 50024507

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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