Tag: winston-churchill

• 28th Mar 2025

  REVIEW: ‘The Antagonists Who Saved Democracy’

  Alan Saltman, Chamberlain and Churchill: The Antagonists Who Saved Democracy (United States: WG Hobart Publishers, 2025). ‘Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill between them saved the country. Neither statesman would have achieved our salvation without the other,’ Conservative MP Patrick Donner once commented. With this new study, Alan Saltman explores the relationship between Chamberlain and Churchill…
• 17th Nov 2024

  REVIEW: ‘Churchill’s D-Day’

  Richard Dannatt, Allen Packwood, Churchill’s D-Day: The Inside Story (London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 2024). Stripping back the layers of hindsight, Richard Dannatt and Allen Packwood provide a fascinating insight into Winston Churchill’s vital role in the planning, preparations, and execution of D-Day, 6 June 1944, codenamed Operation Overlord. Much of the modern history produced…
• 21st Oct 2024

  REVIEW: ‘Churchill’s Citadel’

  Katherine Carter, Churchill’s Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm (London: Yale University Press, 2024) RRP: £20.00. Despite the many studies on the life and times of Sir Winston Churchill, Katherine Carter demonstrates with this fascinating new book that there is still much to explore about the life of Britain’s greatest statesman. In this…