Winston S. Churchiill Archives - Page 2 of 2

Gilbert and Manchester: Complementary Biographers

2 March 2012 Comments 4 Comments

There are big differences between them, but both should be read for a full appreciation of Churchill. In 1986, as Manchester was completing Volume II of The Last Lion, he received an encouraging note from Gilbert: "Our work proceeds on parallel tracks."

Bill O’Reilly, Winston Churchill and “Poison Gas”

11 May 2009 Comments 4 Comments

Churchill was right when he wrote that this particular “poison gas” is one from which “nearly everyone recovers.” Of 164,612 British mustard gas casualties on the Western front, only 4,086 or 2.5% died. Chlorine in its later "perfected stage" killed nearly 20%.