Paul Alkon Archives - Richard M. Langworth

Civil — In 1959, President Eisenhower took Churchill on a tour of Gettysburg. Charlotte Thibault’s imaginative painting captures what they saw in their mind’s eyes. (Courtesy of the artist).

Churchill’s Fantasy: “If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg”

7 January 2021 Comments 0 Comments

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“Sir Winston’s Gettysburg essay…

...is a fantasy which transcends all my objections to exploring the what-ifs and might-have-beens in that great war.”…

Did Winston Churchill Invent the Term “Wizard War”?

4 June 2020 Comments 0 Comments

Q: Churchill’s creation?

I’d like to know if you can shed light on Churchill’s use of the word “wizard” for radar scientists and engineers (as in Their Finest Hour, Book 2, Chapter 4 “The Wizard War”)? He first used the term in publication in that book in 1949; is there any indication of his use of the word, to describe what the RAF called “boffins”, during the early days of the war itself?

“Wizard” is of course a grand old Middle English word, and Churchill would have preferred that to the newfangled “boffin.” …

How Churchill Saw the Future: Prescient Essays, 1924-1931

27 April 2018 Comments 2 Comments

Future Shock

In four essays in his 1932 book Thoughts and Adventures (taken from earlier writings), Churchill contemplated the future. He identified future trends which would affect the evolution of democracy, constitutional government, and the evolution of society. Those essays were remarkably prescient. Moreover, they offer reflections upon issues as prominent today as they were eight decades ago. Excerpted from the Hillsdale College Churchill Project. To read the complete article click here.

“The relevance of the life of Winston Churchill to our time is apparent in the newspaper any day,” writes Hillsdale College President Dr.…