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A glorious essay by Winston Churchill about one of his favourite
pastimes, painting. The prefect antidote to his 'black dog', a
depression that blighted his working life, Churchill took to
painting at the age of 40. It became a passion that was to remain
his constant companion.
Winston Churchill understood and wielded the power of words
throughout his six decades in the public eye. His wartime writings
and speeches revealed both his vision for the future and his own
personal feelings, fascinating generation after generation with
their powerful style and thoughtful reflection. In this book
Churchill's official biographer, Martin Gilbert, has skilfully
selected 200 extracts from his entire oeuvre of books, articles and
speeches that reflect his life story, career and philosophy. From
intimate memories of his childhood to his contributions to half a
century of debates on war and social policy, we see how Churchill
used words for different purposes: to argue for moral causes; to
advocate action in the national and international spheres, and to
tell of his own struggles, setbacks and achievements. Martin
Gilbert's informed choice of extracts and his illuminating
explanations linking them together create a compelling biography of
Churchill as recounted in the great man's own inimitable words.
Here are some of the best of Churchill's letters of a more personal
and intimate nature, presented in chronological order, with a
preface to each letter explaining the context. The recipients
include a vast range of people, including his schoolmaster, his
American grandmother and former President Eisenhower. They are
taken from within the Churchill Archive in Cambridge, where there
is a mass of Churchill's correspondence, much of which is
unpublished. Many of the letters included have never appeared in
book form before. Winston Churchill has become an iconic figure
greatly loved the world over, but maybe especially these days in
the USA. Churchill understood the power of words and he used his
writing to sustain and complement his political career, publishing
over 40 books and receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953.
This volume concentrates on his more intimate words. It seeks to
show the private man behind the public figure and introduce fresh
light on Churchill's character and personality by capturing the
drama, immediacy, storms, depressions, passions and challenges of
Churchill's extraordinary career. Churchill was neither a god nor a
demon. Through these letters we see him as a human being with human
emotions, frailties and a large ego. He was not always right. He
held strong opinions and was often provocative. These letters take
us into his world and allow us to follow the changes in his
motivations and beliefs as he navigates his 90 years. There are
intimate letters to his parents, his teacher at Harrow, Louis de
Souza (Boer Secretary of State for War), his wife Clementine, Prime
Minister Asquith, Lord Northcliffe, Anthony Eden, President
Roosevelt, Eamon De Valera, the French Socialist Prime Minister
Leon Blum and Charles De Gaulle. These are all letters of a
personal nature and are most illuminating. They are enhanced by
facsimiles of the letters and images which appear throughout the
book, helping the reader to envisage a sense of Churchill in his
most private moments.
"It is my hope to recall this great shade from the past, and not
only invest him with his panoply, but make him living and intimate
to modern eyes."--from the preface to Volume One
John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough (1644-1722), was one of the
greatest military commanders and statesmen in the history of
England. Victorious in the Battles of Blenheim (1704), Ramillies
(1706), and countless other campaigns, Marlborough, whose political
intrigues were almost as legendary as his military skill, never
fought a battle he didn't win. Although he helped James II crush
the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth, Marlborough later supported
William of Orange against James II in the Glorious Revolution of
1688 and brilliantly managed England's diplomatic triumphs during
the War of the Spanish Succession. Marlborough also bequeathed the
world another great British military strategist and diplomat--his
descendant, Winston S. Churchill, who wrote this book to redeem
Marlborough's reputation from Macaulay's smears.
One million words long and ten years in the making, Churchill's
"Marlborough" stands as both a literary and historical masterpiece,
giving us unique insights into the Churchill of World War II, for
just as Churchill's literary skill helps us understand the
complexities of Marlborough's life, so too did his writing of
Marlborough help Churchill master the arts of military strategy and
diplomacy. This two-volume edition includes the entire text and
almost all the original maps.
As first lord of the admiralty and minister for war and air,
Churchill stood resolute at the center of international affairs. In
this classic account, he dramatically details how the tides of
despair and triumph flowed and ebbed as the political and military
leaders of the time navigated the dangerous currents of world
conflict.
Churchill vividly recounts the major campaigns that shaped the
war: the furious attacks of the Marne, the naval maneuvers off
Jutland, Verdun's "soul-stirring frenzy," and the surprising
victory of Chemins des Dames. Here, too, he re-creates the dawn of
modern warfare: the buzz of airplanes overhead, trench combat,
artillery thunder, and the threat of chemical warfare. In
Churchill's inimitable voice we hear how "the war to end all wars"
instead gave birth to every war that would follow, including the
current war in Iraq. Written with unprecedented flair and knowledge
of the events, "The World Crisis" remains the single greatest
history of World War I, essential reading for anyone who wishes to
understand the twentieth century.
Winston Churchill wrote five books before he was elected to
Parliament at the age of twenty-five. The most impressive of these
books, The River War tells the story of Britain’s
arduous and risky campaign to reconquer the Sudan at the end of the
nineteenth century. More than half a century of subjection to Egypt
had ended a decade earlier when Sudanese Dervishes rebelled against
foreign rule and killed Britain’s envoy Charles Gordon at his
palace in Khartoum in 1885. Political Islam collided with European
imperialism. Herbert Kitchener’s Anglo-Egyptian army, advancing
hundreds of miles south along the Nile through the Sahara Desert,
defeated the Dervish army at the battle of Omdurman on September 2,
1898. Â Churchill, an ambitious young cavalry officer serving
with his regiment in India, had already published newspaper columns
and a book about fighting on the Afghan frontier. He yearned to
join Kitchener’s campaign. But the general, afraid of what he
would write about it, refused to have him. Churchill returned to
London. With help from his mother and the prime minister, he
managed to get himself attached to an English cavalry regiment sent
to strengthen Kitchener’s army. Hurriedly travelling to Egypt,
Churchill rushed upriver to Khartoum, catching up with
Kitchener’s army just in time to take part in the climactic
battle. That day he charged with the 21st Lancers in the most
dangerous fighting against the Dervish host. Â He wrote
fifteen dispatches for the Morning Post in London. As
Kitchener had expected, Churchill’s dispatches and his subsequent
book were highly controversial. The precocious officer, having
earlier seen war on two other continents, showed a cool
independence of his commanding officer. He even resigned from the
army to be free to write the book as he pleased. He gave Kitchener
credit for his victory but found much to criticize in his character
and campaign.  Churchill’s book, far from being just a
military history, told the whole story of the Egyptian conquest of
the Sudan and the Dervishes’ rebellion against imperial rule. The
young author was remarkably even-handed, showing sympathy for the
founder of the rebellion, Muhammad Ahmed, and for his successor the
Khalifa Abdullahi, whom Kitchener had defeated. He considered how
the war in northeast Africa affected British politics at home, fit
into the geopolitical rivalry between Britain and France, and
abruptly thrust the vast Sudan, with the largest territory in
Africa, into an uncertain future in Britain’s orbit.  In
November 1899, The River War was published in “two
massive volumes, my magnum opus (up to date), upon
which I had lavished a whole year of my life,†as Churchill
recalled later in his autobiography. The book had twenty-six
chapters, five appendices, dozens of illustrations, and colored
maps. Three years later, in 1902, it was shortened to fit into one
volume. Seven whole chapters, and parts of every other chapter,
disappeared in the abridgment. Many maps and most illustrations
were also dropped. Since then the abridged edition has been
reprinted regularly, and eventually it was even abridged further.
But the full two-volume book, which is rare and expensive, was
never published again—until now.  St. Augustine’s Press,
in collaboration with the International Churchill Society, brings
back to print in two handsome volumes The River War: An
Historical Account of the Reconquest of the
Soudan unabridged, for the first time since 1902. Every
chapter and appendix from the first edition has been restored. All
the maps are in it, in their original colors, with all the
illustrations by Churchill’s brother officer Angus McNeill.
 More than thirty years in the making, under the editorship
of James W. Muller, this new edition of The River
War will be the definitive one for all time. The whole book
is printed in two colors, in black and red type, to show what
Churchill originally wrote and how it was abridged or altered
later. For the first time, a new appendix reproduces Churchill’s
Sudan dispatches as he wrote them, before they were edited by
the Morning Post. Other new appendices reprint Churchill’s
subsequent writings on the Sudan. Thousands of new footnotes have
been added to the book by the editor, identifying Churchill’s
references to people, places, writings, and events unfamiliar to
readers today. Professor Muller’s new introduction explains how
the book fits into Churchill’s career as a writer and an aspiring
politician. He examines the statesman’s early thoughts about war,
race, religion, and imperialism, which are still our political
challenges in the twenty-first century. Â Half a century
after The River War appeared, this book was one of a
handful of his works singled out by the Swedish Academy when it
awarded Churchill the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. Now, once
again, its reader can follow Churchill back to the war he fought on
the Nile, beginning with the words of his youngest daughter. Before
she died, Mary Soames wrote a new foreword, published here, which
concludes that “In this splendid new edition…we have, in
effect, the whole history of The River War as Winston
Churchill wrote it—and it makes memorable reading.â€
The World Crisis is considered by many to be Winston S. Churchill's
literary masterpiece. Published across five volumes between 1923
and 1931, Churchill here tells the story of The Great War, from its
origins to the long shadow it cast on the following decades. At
once a history and a first-hand account of Churchill's own
involvement in the war, The World Crisis remains a compelling
account of the conflict and its importance. The third volume of The
World Crisis covers the climax and the end of the war, from
1916-1918. Churchill here explores some of the most important
moments of the conflict, including the battles of Verdun, Jutland,
Passchendaele and the Somme as well as the American entry into the
war that marked the beginning of its end. Churchill here also
recounts his time on the front line during his brief exile from
political office and his return to government in Lloyd-George's
wartime coalition as Minster of Munitions.
"It is my hope to recall this great shade from the past, and not
only invest him with his panoply, but make him living and intimate
to modern eyes."--from the preface to Volume One
John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough (1644-1722), was one of the
greatest military commanders and statesmen in the history of
England. Victorious in the Battles of Blenheim (1704), Ramillies
(1706), and countless other campaigns, Marlborough, whose political
intrigues were almost as legendary as his military skill, never
fought a battle he didn't win. Although he helped James II crush
the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth, Marlborough later supported
William of Orange against James II in the Glorious Revolution of
1688 and brilliantly managed England's diplomatic triumphs during
the War of the Spanish Succession. Marlborough also bequeathed the
world another great British military strategist and diplomat--his
descendant, Winston S. Churchill, who wrote this book to redeem
Marlborough's reputation from Macaulay's smears.
One million words long and ten years in the making, Churchill's
"Marlborough" stands as both a literary and historical masterpiece,
giving us unique insights into the Churchill of World War II, for
just as Churchill's literary skill helps us understand the
complexities of Marlborough's life, so too did his writing of
Marlborough help Churchill master the arts of military strategy and
diplomacy. This two-volume edition includes the entire text and
almost all the original maps.
'This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written
it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative
power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and
statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of what
Englishmen in the hey-day of their empire thought and felt about
their country's past.' The Daily Telegraph Spanning Caesar's
invasion of Britain to the birth of the twentieth century, A
History of the English-Speaking Peoples stands as one of Winston S.
Churchill's most magnificent literary works. Begun during
Churchill's 'wilderness years' when he was out of government, first
published in 1956 after his leadership through the darkest days of
World War II had cemented his place in history, and completed when
Churchill was in his 80s, it remains to this day a compelling and
vivid history. This one-volume abridged edition of Churchill's
major work makes accessible to readers the full sweep of his
magisterial chronicle of the history of Britain. It combines
Churchill's intriguing, closely observed biographical profiles of a
succession of leaders - including Alfred the Great, Henry
Plantagenet, Henry V, Richard III, Charles I, William Pitt and
Queen Victoria - with the key events and developments that were to
shape the course of history. Restored to this edition is the
abridged version of the American history from the individual
volumes, covering the War of American Independence and the American
Civil War, each introduced by the editor.
Yet he who had not seen the desert or felt the sun heavily on his
shoulders would hardly admire the fertility of the riparian scrub.
Unnourishing reeds and grasses grow rank and coarse from the
water's edge. The dark, rotten soil between the tussocks is cracked
and granulated by the drying up of the annual flood. The character
of the vegetation is inhospitable. Thorn-bushes, bristling like
hedgehogs and thriving arrogantly, everywhere predominate and with
their prickly tangles obstruct or forbid the path. Only the palms
by the brink are kindly, and men journeying along the Nile must
look often towards their bushy tops, where among the spreading
foliage the red and yellow glint of date clusters proclaims the
ripening of a generous crop, and protests that Nature is not always
mischievous and cruel.
The World Crisis is considered by many to be Winston S. Churchill's
literary masterpiece. Published across five volumes between 1923
and 1931, Churchill here tells the story of The Great War, from its
origins to the long shadow it cast on the following decades. At
once a history and a first-hand account of Churchill's own
involvement in the war, The World Crisis remains a compelling
account of the conflict and its importance. In the fourth volume of
his history of World War I, Churchill covers the aftermath of the
conflict, between the years 1918-1922. Churchill here considers the
process of demobilization after the many hard years of war, and the
long negotiation of the peace and the Treaty of Versailles, as well
as President Woodrow Wilson's famed 14 Points, the founding of the
League of Nations and the Revolution and Civil War in Russia.
"I am perhaps the only man who has passed through the two supreme
cataclysms of recorded history in high executive office... I was in
this second struggle with Germany for more than five years the head
of His Majesty's Government. I write therefore from a different
standpoint and with more authority than was possible in my earlier
books. I do not describe it as a history, for that belongs to
another generation. But I claim with confidence that it is a
contribution to history which will be of service to the future."
Sir Winston Churchill From the origins of the conflict, the rise of
Hitler and the futile attempts at appeasement, through the darkest
days of Britain's lone stand against the Axis powers, the great
alliances with the USA and Soviet Russia and the triumphs of D Day
and the eventual liberation of Europe to the terrible birth of the
Cold War under the shadow of nuclear weaponry, this is Winston
Churchill's landmark history of World War II. At once a personal
account and a magisterial history, The Second World War remains
Churchill's literary masterpiece.
In his first book, the renowned statesman and historian chronicles
an 1897 British military campaign on the Northwest Frontier, in the
vicinity of modern Pakistan and Afghanistan. Churchill served as a
correspondent and cavalry officer in the conflict, and his incisive
reportage reflects the energy and vision that re-emerged in his
leadership during World War II.
At the time of the clash, Churchill was serving as a subaltern in
the 4th Hussars. Weary of regimental life, the young soldier drew
upon family connections to find a place among the brigades headed
for the frontier. There he participated in his first combat in the
Mamund Valley, where British troops suppressed a revolt among the
region's Pathan tribes. Churchill's series of letters to the London
"Daily Telegraph "formed the basis for this book, which he declared
"the most noteworthy act of my life," reflecting "the chances of my
possible success in the world." A century later, the towering
historical figure's account of military action in this
still-volatile region remains powerfully relevant.
The World Crisis is considered by many to be Winston S. Churchill's
literary masterpiece. Published across five volumes between 1923
and 1931, Churchill here tells the story of The Great War, from its
origins to the long shadow it cast on the following decades. At
once a history and a first-hand account of Churchill's own
involvement in the war, The World Crisis remains a compelling
account of the conflict and its importance. In the fifth and final
volume of The World Crisis, Winston Churchill turns his attention
to the 'forgotten war' on the Eastern Front. His focus is the great
rivalry between Russia and the Austro-German alliance during the
years of the First World War, from the tensions over Bosnia and
Serbia that triggered the conflict through the terrible battles on
the Eastern Front to the final collapse of the Russian forces that
triggered the Revolution.
The World Crisis is considered by many to be Winston S. Churchill's
literary masterpiece. Published across five volumes between 1923
and 1931, Churchill here tells the story of The Great War, from its
origins to the long shadow it cast on the following decades. At
once a history and a first-hand account of Churchill's own
involvement in the war, The World Crisis remains a compelling
account of the conflict and its importance. Volume I covers the
origins and earliest days of the war from 1911-1914, as well as the
longer history of the collapse of the Great Power system from the
Franco Prussian war onwards. Churchill here explores the
international tensions over the Balkan states that triggered the
conflict as well as the arms race between the British and German
navies.
"This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written
it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative
power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and
statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of what
Englishmen in the hey-day of their empire thought and felt about
their country's past." The Daily Telegraph Spanning four volumes
and many centuries of history, from Caesar's invasion of Britain to
the start of World War I, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
stands as one of Winston S. Churchill's most magnificent literary
works. Begun during Churchill's 'wilderness years' when he was out
of government, first published in 1956 after his leadership through
the darkest days of World War II had cemented his place in history
and completed when Churchill was in his 80s, it remains to this day
a compelling and vivid history. The first volume - The Birth of
Britain - tells the story of the formation of the British state,
from the arrival of Julius Caesar and the Roman Empire through the
invasions of the Vikings and the Normans, the signing of the Magna
Carta and establishment of the mother of parliaments to the War of
the Roses.
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