http://localhost:8080/flaws Senior Fellow, Hillsdale College Churchill Project, Writer and Historian Wed, 15 Dec 2021 02:17:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 http://localhost:8080/flaws#comment-51371 Wed, 15 Dec 2021 02:17:45 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=13068#comment-51371 I recently got two new books about W.S.C. ” Churchill’s Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare” by Giles Milton, on destruction of Hitler’s war machine, through spectacular acts of sabotage. A lesser known part of the war, but makes great inside information. Almost done reading it. “Best Little Stories from the Life and Times of Winston Churchill”, still have to get started.

]]> http://localhost:8080/flaws#comment-51079 Wed, 01 Dec 2021 16:48:17 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=13068#comment-51079 Concerning 13) he was not alone.
See the superb discussion of the same failure in the United States in the first chapters of the recent
When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance, by Michael S. Neiberg

]]> http://localhost:8080/flaws#comment-51078 Wed, 01 Dec 2021 16:15:39 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=13068#comment-51078 Richard
I think this was a very useful listing. 90 years, most of it in the public eye at a highly placed decision level—- a pretty good score , even if accomplishments were modest—- when great, the scales are balanced way to one side

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