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

16 February 2021 Comments 0 Comments

The Compleat Wrks (Abridged) by Klaus Wiegrefe

Some things on the web live a long time. “How Winston Churchill Stopped the Nazis” by Klaus Wiegrefe was published ten years ago, but we still get queries about it. This review is therefore republished for your amusement or forgiveness.

This nine-part article is oddly remindful of “The Compleat Wrks of Wilm Shkspr (Abridged).” In that work, three actors critique all of Shakespeare’s works in a couple of hours.

There’s nothing particularly novel or new in Der Spiegel‘s series. Attempts to cast Churchill as demoniac have been going on long before 2021—as bad as today’s stuff is.…

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.…

“The Last Lion” Volume III is Published

5 March 2009 Comments 98 Comments

Over 400 readers asked when we will see the third and final volume of William Manchester’s Churchill biography, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Defender of the Realm 1940-1965. Answer: Amazon was shipping copies as of mid-October 2012—only twenty-four years since Volume II!

Mr. Reid kindly asked me to proof the manuscript for Volume III, as did Mr. Manchester for Volume II.

This will be good news to the many Manchester fans who have waited for years. Paul Reid’s volume is written in the Manchester style, as dramatic and gripping as the first two volumes.…