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Severance, John. Sir Winston Churchill: Soldier, Statesman, Artist, 1986, 144 pages, Zoller A593. An illustrated biography for young people, this outstanding little volume restores an appreciation for Churchill not being taught in many schools, while puncturing many widely held beliefs about him. The photos are accurately captioned and not many are “old chestnuts.” Lady Soames called it one of the best juveniles yet published. Soames, Mary. A Churchill Family Album, 1982, 429 photos, Zoller A447. Lovingly compiled, largely from family photos, some never seen before. With detailed captions expertly identifying and commenting on each picture, this is the most important photo documentary and among the five or six essential works on Winston Churchill. Farrow Award 2007. Soames, Mary. Winston Churchill: His Life as a Painter, 1990, 224 pages, Zoller A523. Paul Addison: “Churchill never claimed to be a great artist but he delighted in the landscapes he saw on his travels, domestic scenes from his home at Chartwell, and portraits of his family and friends. The story is delightfully told by his daughter, a revelation of the private self who kept the statesman human.” Wonderful large-format color reproductions bedizen this great work. Farrow Award 2007. Soames, Mary. Speaking for Themselves: The Personal Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill, 1999, 702 pages, Zoller A620. A masterful compilation of correspondence spanning fiftyeight years. Paul Addison wrote: “Mary Soames is a fine editor. Her unrivaled knowledge of the subject is complemented by literary and historical skills which are gracefully worn but highly professional....In bringing together both sides of the correspondence, and eliminating everything else, she has revealed as never before the inside story of a marriage that was also a great political partnership.” Farrow Award 2007. Stafford, David. Churchill and Secret Service, 1997, 386 pages, Zoller A608. Churchill’s lifelong fascination with intelligence is brought together by this most comprehensive account stretching from the Indian frontiers of 1897 to the Mussadeq coup in Iran in 1953, Paul Addison writes: “While shattering many canards implicating Churchill, such as the Lusitania and Pearl Harbor, Stafford shows that WSC played a crucial part in the development of the intel- FINEST HoUR 140 / 27 ligence services and was no mean hand with a cloak and dagger.” Farrow Award 2000. Wallin, Jeffrey. By Ships Alone: Churchill and the Dardanelles, Politics and Strategy of a Decision, 1981, 216 pages, Zoller A444. The leading account of the attempt to force the Dardanelles “by ships alone,” which ended in a naval retreat and the subsequent failure of an attempt on the Gallipoli peninsula by seaborne assault. Wallin maintains that the concept was strategically sound, would have worked; that ruination came because Churchill lacked the plenary authority to control events. Weidhorn, Manfred. Sword and Pen: A Survey of the Writings of Winston Churchill, 1974, 278 pages, Zoller A394. Arguably the finest analytical work on Churchill’s writings: scholarly and thoughtful, it shows how Churchill’s temperament, background and experience influenced his pen. Around for over thirty years, it is still among the best sources on the Churchill canon. Farrow Award 1998. Wheeler-Bennett, John, ed., Action This Day: Working with Churchill, 1968, 272 pages, Zoller A331. This book was written at behest of Clementine Churchill by six close colleagues of her husband to refute the notion from Lord Moran’s Stru gle for Survival (1966) that Churchill’s performance was seriously affected by his health. Our forty-year cut-off eliminates Moran’s original; flaws and all, it remains important reading. Zoller, Curt. Annotated Bibliography of Works About Sir Winston S. Churchill, 2004, 410 pages, Zoller A684. The most comprehensive bibliography on works about Churchill includes lists and opinions on nearly 700 specific Churchill titles. Also lists works substantially about Churchill, articles, lectures, reviews, dissertations and theses. Farrow Award 2004. Absolutely indispensable for the serious Churchill library. SPECIAL TO MEMBERS: Own the Zoller bibliography, now selling for up to $189 on the Internet, with a new addendum through 2008, for $65 postpaid in USA! Phone your order toll-free to The Churchill Centre at (888) WSC-1874 or send a check to the Centre at 200 West Madison Street, Suite 1700, Chicago IL 60606. Shipping higher outside USA. ,
FORTY YEARS ON (3) WSC Since 1968 The Rounded Picture MARTIN GILBERT W hen Randolph Churchill began work on his father’s biography in 1961, he had at his disposal an estimated fifteen tons of paper, his father’s personal archive, now at Churchill College, Cambridge. In 1962, when I joined his research team, Randolph had already begun to search out yet more material. As well as Churchill’s letters to his friends, there were also other letters of his which, on a vast scale, had begun to transform Randolph’s work by 1968, and which over the next forty years transformed mine. These were the long, affectionate, and almost always handwritten letters which Churchill sent to his wife whenever they were apart. When Lady Churchill decided that these letters could become a part of the biography, she ensured a truly remarkable extra dimension of our knowledge of Churchill’s moods and motives. On being confronted by such a formidable amount of personal material, Randolph Churchill adopted as the motto for the biography: “He shall be his own biographer.” Churchill’s letters were to be the basis of his son’s narrative. One must remember when Randolph began, in 1962, no Cabinet, or even departmental, documents could be used. In view of the fiftyyear rule which was then in force, the most recent official archives available were those for the year 1912. But in 1965 (the year of Churchill’s death, and three years before Randolph’s) the time limit was reduced to thirty years. I am unable to forget that had the fifty-year rule remained in force, the official archives would in 1990 have been open only up to 1940. The inner workings of Churchill’s leadership in the Second World War would have then still been largely secret. For the last forty years, then, Churchill has no longer had to be “his own biographer,” even though his personality still towers over every page of the narrative. I am quite content that this should be so; indeed, it has been my aim to try to place the reader in Churchill’s presence. Yet the contribution to our understanding Sir Martin Gilbert CBE is the official biographer of Winston Spencer Churchill, a CC honorary member and trustee, a Finest Hour contributor and a friend of thirty-five years. His remarks are no less apposite than when they first appeared in FH 65, Fourth Quarter, 1989. FINEST HoUR 140 / 28 Forty years on, growing older and older, Shorter in wind, as in memory long, Feeble of foot, and rheumatic of shoulder, What will it help you that once you were strong? God give us bases to guard or beleaguer, Games to play out, whether earnest or fun; Fights for the fearless, and goals for the eager, Twenty, and thirty, and forty years on! Follow up! (etc.) —Forty Years On, stanza 4, Harrow, 1872 afforded by the easing of restrictions was profound. In 1979, the Government agreed to open the archives of the Second World War in their entirety, including those of the Ministry of Defence, of which Churchill had made himself the head in May 1940. It now became possible to study papers such as the meetings of the War Cabinet, the Chiefs of Staff Committee —over which Churchill presided—and the Defence
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