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”

29 December 2020 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

"While men are gathering knowledge and power with ever-increasing and measureless speed, their virtues and their wisdom have not shown any notable improvement as the centuries have rolled. The brain of modern man does not differ in essentials from that of the human beings who fought and loved here millions of years ago. The nature of man has remained hitherto practically unchanged. Under sufficient stress—starvation, terror, warlike passion, or even cold intellectual frenzy—the modern man we know so well will do the most terrible deeds...." —WSC