Battle of Britain Archives - Richard M. Langworth

Churchilliana: Return to Glory for an Icon or Two (Update)

20 October 2021 Comments 0 Comments

Icon of war: the old War Office, Whitehall

(Updated from 2016). Home to Secretaries of State for War Lord Haldane, Lord Kitchener, David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, it was a key venue in two global conflicts. But in 2016 the old War Office building was sold to developers of a five-star hotel and residential apartments. That work is expected to finish in 2022, and residents are being sought.

Built in 1906 for £1.2, million, the Grade II-listed property changed hands for £300 million. The buyers were the Hinduja Group, in partnership with a Obrascon Huarte Lain Desarrollos (OHLD), a Spanish industrial company.…

Wiegrefe: “The Compleat Wrks of Wnstn Chrchl (Abridged)”

16 February 2021 Comments 0 Comments

What we have here is a rough capsule history of the war, along with several clangers and exaggerations. But in the main this account is, as Churchill once said about Britain and the Axis ganging up against Russia: “Too easy to be good.”

Battle of Britain 70th Anniversary 2010

13 September 2010 Comments 1 Comment

LONDON, AUGUST 20TH— Seven decades to the day after Winston Churchill’s inspiring salute to the Royal Air Force as the Battle of Britain was reaching its height, Timothy Robert Hardy, the greatest actor ever to portray Churchill, delivered portions of the Prime Minister’s House of Commons speech containing the famous tribute: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

The original speech was a long overview of the war situation covering many events beside “the great air battle” raging in the skies over Britain.…