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The Making of Churchill - Book Review
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One only hopes to read an endorsement of pixelation as a prelude to greatness. It's the one thing many of us can manage in common with the great man. Add your own adjectives.
One only hopes to read an endorsement of pixelation as a prelude to greatness. It's the one thing many of us can manage in common with the great man. Add your own adjectives.
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It is possible to defame a very great man by saying that he was merely a great man. Such seems to be the fate of Churchill.
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What an excellent piece! He barely mentions the books involved, but makes a great case for Churchill being so much more than many people appreciate.
Churchill's loyalty to Chamberlain during the first months of the war is typical. And as he points out, Chamberlain's gratitude was key in Winston's selection to succeed him. For a man of such gigantic ego, he could be not only self effacing, but he could also even laugh at himself. He was a great one for "wiping the slate clean", when it came to personal and political grudges. It served him and his country well in the long run.
I think the point about Churchill making the best of a very bad bargain at the end of the war, as regards the fate of Eastern Europe, is also well taken. Churchill had a far reaching and subtly strategic mind. He received a lot of after the fact criticism for his creation of the modern nation of Iraq in 1920, but I think is was a very similar situation. He did the best he could, probably the best anyone could, with very limited resources and time.
A wonderful man, take him for all in all.
I enjoyed this a lot.
Churchill's loyalty to Chamberlain during the first months of the war is typical. And as he points out, Chamberlain's gratitude was key in Winston's selection to succeed him. For a man of such gigantic ego, he could be not only self effacing, but he could also even laugh at himself. He was a great one for "wiping the slate clean", when it came to personal and political grudges. It served him and his country well in the long run.
I think the point about Churchill making the best of a very bad bargain at the end of the war, as regards the fate of Eastern Europe, is also well taken. Churchill had a far reaching and subtly strategic mind. He received a lot of after the fact criticism for his creation of the modern nation of Iraq in 1920, but I think is was a very similar situation. He did the best he could, probably the best anyone could, with very limited resources and time.
A wonderful man, take him for all in all.
I enjoyed this a lot.
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