Winston Churchill, Myth and Reality
Winston Churchill, Myth and Reality: What He Actually Did and Said
“No one alive knows more about Winston Churchill than Richard Langworth, his vicar on earth. This superb book lays bare the lies told by some, but also reveals new truths about the Greatest Englishman.” —Andrew Roberts, Lehrman Institute Distinguished Scholar, NY Historical Society
About this book:
This ground-breaking work refutes longstanding attacks on Churchill’s actions and character. Among them: that he used troops against strikers, opposed votes for women, was an enemy of Irish independence, cost lives at the Dardanelles, promoted the use of poison gas, hated Gandhi and the Jews, admired Hitler, praised Mussolini, knew about Pearl Harbor beforehand, allowed Coventry to be bombed to protect secret intelligence, refused to bomb Auschwitz, and wanted to nuke the Russians after World War II.
On these and many other charges, Richard Langworth powerfully supports Churchill’s good name. Here is “The Case for the Defense”—what Churchill really thought and did—over many issues still on our minds today.
“Why is Churchill so widely quoted and admired?” Langworth asks. “Because he stood for something: for liberty, justice, and peace. Uncommonly for a politician, he thought deeply about the nature of humanity; his devotion to freedom, his magnanimity toward former foes, solved many seemingly intractable problems. As I note herein, he was not infallible, and it diminishes him to treat him as super-human. But his faults were eclipsed by his virtues, and his record stands undiminished.”
Contents
Youth
1 “Chief Leader of Men”
2 Jennie’s Indiscretions, Jack’s Parentage
3 The Menace of Education
4 What Killed Lord Randolph?
Young Statesman
5 Votes for Women
6 The Sinking of the Titanic
7 The Unpleasantness on Sidney Street WSC
8 “The Sullen Feet of Marching Men in Tonypandy”
9 Ireland: “Tell Winston we could have done nothing without him.”
World War I
10 “Winston has got on all his war-paint”
11 The Defense of Antwerp
12 The Dardanelles and Gallipoli
13 Loss of the Lusitania
14 America and World War I
15 Chemical Warfare
Between the World Wars
16 Taking More out of Alcohol
17 “The Foul Baboonery of Bolshevism”
18 Trial by Jewry
19 The Trouble with Mr. Gandhi
20 Mussolini, Lawgiver and Jackal
21 Hitler as Great Contemporary
World War II
22 The Voice They Heard
23 Depredations of the State
24 Torturous Topics
25 Bombing Coventry
26 Second Front Fracas
27 Mad Bomber
28 Starving the Indians
29 The Brain in Spain was Not in the Plane
30 The Destruction of Monte Cassino
31 What about Auschwitz?
32 Feeding Occupied Europe
Postwar Years
33 Spheres of Influence
34 Shocking Facts
35 Trouble ’n’ Strife
36 “In Europe, but Not of It”
37 The Common Touch
Appendices
I Things That Go Bump in the Night: Minor Myths Enumerate
II Red Herrings: Summary of Mythological Churchill Quotes
III Hillsdale College Churchill Project
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