14 September 2020
America’s National Churchill Museum is located on the campus of Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. The museum is the site where Winston Churchill gave his famous Iron Curtain speech on 5 March 1946. This speech actually marked the beginning of the Cold War. A summary of the speech and its most famous phrase reads as … Read more » “Fulton,Westminster College and Winston Churchill”
14 November 2017
The new film Darkest Hour focuses on Winston Churchill’s first month as prime minister in May 1940. It accurately depicts the fierce resistance from many Tories, most of the aristocracy, and business leaders to Churchill’s elevation. They rejected Churchill’s defiance as bad for (financial) business, irresponsible, and militarily and politically hopeless anyway. Britain was isolated … Read more » “The Darkest Hour, Churchill and the European Union”
6 November 2017
Most people memorise the First World War, or The Great War (1914-1918), because of the trenches in France and Belgium, the Dardanelles in Turkey (1915), the first use of tanks, gas, aeroplanes and U-boats, and the fall of European empires. Many citizens of the British Commonwealth fought and died throughout Europe, Japanese and American soldiers … Read more » “The Forgotten World War I in the Alps”
6 November 2017
“When I awoke on the morning of Sunday, the 22nd, the news was brought to me of Hitler’s invasion of Russia. I had not the slightest doubt where our duty and policy lay. The Nazi regime is indistinguishable from the worst features of Communism. It excels all forms of human wickedness in the efficiency of … Read more » “The Brave World of Winston Churchill on 22 June, 1941”
5 November 2017
Madame Tussaud decided to give Adolf Hitler a face in the new exhibition in Berlin. Hitler will appear together with 75 other historical figures. The return of the dictator, who left Berlin and a continent in ruins, will be less violent than his farewell suicide, his hateful testimony and his disastrous legacy. Hitler will not … Read more » “The Duel of Painters Churchill and Hitler”