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The fourth volume in this collection of the Nobel Prize-winning prime minister's essays and journalism showcases his wide-ranging interests and talents. Legendary politician and military strategist Winston S. Churchill was a master not only of the battlefield, but of the page and the podium. Over the course of forty books and countless speeches, broadcasts, news items and more, he addressed a country at war and at peace, thrilling with victory but uneasy with its shifting role in global politics. In 1953, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for "his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values." During his lifetime, he enthralled readers and brought crowds roaring to their feet; in the years since his death, his skilled writing has inspired generations of eager history buffs. This collection of 1920s-30s magazine and newspaper articles convey the extraordinary variety and depth of Churchill's thoughts on the questions, both lofty and quotidian, facing humankind. From oil painting to learning to fly an airplane, from cartoons to commanding a frontline infantry battalion in World War One, these essays bring the great man's wit and intellect to life. With a new introduction and notes by James W. Muller, academic chairman of the International Churchill Society, this edition recovers Churchill's unforgettable table talk for a new generation of readers.… (plus d'informations)
I come to Churchill's writings about 50 years too late, so the inclusion in this collection of essays of a piece called "Fifty Years Hence", written between 1924 and 1931, is fortuitous, since it allows me to read, and then to marvel at, the great man's thoughts about a world I know, the world of the 1970's.
He's got it bang on, of course, especially with regard to the speed of change and the continuing need of the soul for a vision above material things, so it's a delight - armed with the knowledge thus gained of Churchill's insight and prescience - to read the remaining essays in this volume.
Of the 23 topics covered here, from cartoons and cartoonists, via memories of his election campaigns, to the value of hobbies, it is difficult to pick a single favourite; I would highlight four pieces, and for different reasons:
Firstly, "Consistency in Politics" for its understanding of statecraft, especially its appreciation of Gladstone on pg. 25.
Secondly, "The Siege of Sydney Street" for its eyewitness account, compellingly told, of an episode in British history which has echoes nearly a century later in the lives of Russian emigrants.
Thirdly, all the essays on aspects of the Great War, especially "With The Grenadiers" for its vivid depiction of the lives of soldiers in the trenches (e.g. the "sockatorium" on pg. 71), "The U-Boat War" for the way in which it illustrates the importance of the opinion of non-experts, "A Day with Clemenceau" as an example of the value of strategic thinking, and "Luddendorf's All or Nothing" for is perceptive analysis of the state of the combattant armies on the Western Front in 1917.
Finally, "The Irish Treaty" is a comment on the difficulties of securing peace in Ireland at a time of war in Europe, with interesting comments on two of the negotiators on the Irish side, Griffith and Collins.
Some of the other essays in this Volume are a little dark, but no more than you might expect from a statesman who has been at the apex of his country's fights against its declared enemies.
As a friend exclaimed when she saw the cover, "I've never seen a photograph of him so young!" Lots of alarums and excursions and verve: the title puts it beautifully. What a wild and crazy guy!
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The fourth volume in this collection of the Nobel Prize-winning prime minister's essays and journalism showcases his wide-ranging interests and talents. Legendary politician and military strategist Winston S. Churchill was a master not only of the battlefield, but of the page and the podium. Over the course of forty books and countless speeches, broadcasts, news items and more, he addressed a country at war and at peace, thrilling with victory but uneasy with its shifting role in global politics. In 1953, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for "his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values." During his lifetime, he enthralled readers and brought crowds roaring to their feet; in the years since his death, his skilled writing has inspired generations of eager history buffs. This collection of 1920s-30s magazine and newspaper articles convey the extraordinary variety and depth of Churchill's thoughts on the questions, both lofty and quotidian, facing humankind. From oil painting to learning to fly an airplane, from cartoons to commanding a frontline infantry battalion in World War One, these essays bring the great man's wit and intellect to life. With a new introduction and notes by James W. Muller, academic chairman of the International Churchill Society, this edition recovers Churchill's unforgettable table talk for a new generation of readers.
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He's got it bang on, of course, especially with regard to the speed of change and the continuing need of the soul for a vision above material things, so it's a delight - armed with the knowledge thus gained of Churchill's insight and prescience - to read the remaining essays in this volume.
Of the 23 topics covered here, from cartoons and cartoonists, via memories of his election campaigns, to the value of hobbies, it is difficult to pick a single favourite; I would highlight four pieces, and for different reasons:
Firstly, "Consistency in Politics" for its understanding of statecraft, especially its appreciation of Gladstone on pg. 25.
Secondly, "The Siege of Sydney Street" for its eyewitness account, compellingly told, of an episode in British history which has echoes nearly a century later in the lives of Russian emigrants.
Thirdly, all the essays on aspects of the Great War, especially "With The Grenadiers" for its vivid depiction of the lives of soldiers in the trenches (e.g. the "sockatorium" on pg. 71), "The U-Boat War" for the way in which it illustrates the importance of the opinion of non-experts, "A Day with Clemenceau" as an example of the value of strategic thinking, and "Luddendorf's All or Nothing" for is perceptive analysis of the state of the combattant armies on the Western Front in 1917.
Finally, "The Irish Treaty" is a comment on the difficulties of securing peace in Ireland at a time of war in Europe, with interesting comments on two of the negotiators on the Irish side, Griffith and Collins.
Some of the other essays in this Volume are a little dark, but no more than you might expect from a statesman who has been at the apex of his country's fights against its declared enemies.
A worthy read. (