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Churchillian Maxims: “Take the Enemy into Consideration”

5 January 2022 Comments 0 Comments

"The German General Staff called this long-prepared operation by the code name Alberich, after the malicious dwarf of the Nibelungen legend. They left their opponents in the crater fields of the Somme,"

“To be opened in the event of my death…” Winston Churchill to his Wife, 1915

1 January 2022 Comments 3 Comments

Q: The goodbye letter

I am doing some work for my English AS course and need a comparative piece to go with a poem I am studying. I have tried looking for Winston Churchill’s goodbye letter to his wife but have been unsuccessful. Is there any way I could even have a part of the text of the letter for my studies? —A.S., UK

A: “In the event of my death…”

This was a great and memorable letter. After his removal as First Lord of the Admiralty in 1915, Churchill spent six uneasy months in a sinecure position, unable to influence war policy.…