May 15, 2013

FINEST HOUR 140, AUTUMN 2008

ABSTRACT
AND WITH THE HELP OF OUR WEBSITE, MOST OF THEM ARE AT YOUR FINGERTIPS 

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There is no point reprinting anything we have archived on our website. If you can pay a call on www.winstonchurchill.org, you will find a rich trove of reading from the past forty years. Here are a hundred of the best from Finest Hour and the Proceedings when published separately—most articles just a click away, presuming you have internet access. If you prefer to peruse the printed page, many back issues are available from our Chicago offices for $5 each postpaid.

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To get to the web location of most articles, add the “page id” number to our website page address: www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?

For example, the first article (pageid=674) is at www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=674.

Issues from FH 115 (Summer 2002) to FH 130 (Spring 2006) are posted as downloadable .pdf files at: www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=35.

Since Finest Hour 131, most readers have copies; but if you don’t, they are readily available for $5 each postpaid from our Chicago office.

CHURCHILL, SIR WINSTON S.
“If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg” FH 102, Summer 1999, pageid=674
“King George VI” FH 114, Spring 2002, pageid=265
“Lawrence of Arabia” FH 119, Summer 2003, pageid=35
“My New York Misadventure” FH 136, Autumn 2007
“Old Battlefields of Virginia” FH 72, Third Quarter 1991
“Omdurman: The Fallen Foe” FH 85, Winter 1994-95, pageid=675
“On Ships and the Navy” FH 110, Spring 2001, pageid=327
“Queen of the Seas: RMS Queen Mary” FH 121, Winter 2003-04, pageid=35
“Silent Toast to William Willett” FH 114, Spring 2002, pageid=266
“The United States of Europe” FH 129-130, Winter-Spring 2005-06, pageid=35
“The Untrodden Field in Politics” FH 137, Winter 2007-08

ALKON, PAUL
“Lawrence Reconsidered” (three articles) FH 119, Summer 2003, pageid=35

ARNN, LARRY
“English-Speaking Peoples: ‘Never Despair'” FH 122, Spring 2004, pageid=35

BINGHAM, ERIC AND HILDA
“School Days: Young Winston’s Mr. Somervell” FH 86, Spring 1995, pageid=732

BUCKLEY, JR., WILLIAM F.
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Men” Proceedings 1994-95, pageid=633

COHEN, ELIOT A.
“Churchill and His Generals: Tasks of Supreme Command” Proceedings, 1992-93, pageid=611

COLVILLE, SIR JOHN
“He Had No Use For Second Best” FH 41, Autumn 1983, pageid=736

COOKE , ALISTAIR
“Churchill at the Time: A Retrospective” Proceedings 1988-89, pageid=569

COOPER, LADY DIANA
“Winston and Clementine” FH 83, Second Quarter 1995, pageid=761

COURTS, ROBERT
“Churchill, the RAF and Naval Aviation” FH 127, Summer 2005, pageid=35

COURTENAY, PAUL
“Armorial Bearings of Winston Churchill” FH 102, Spring 1999, pageid=762

DILKS, DAVID
“‘Champagne for Everyone’: The Greatness of Bill Deakin” FH 131, Summer 2006
“The Queen and Mr. Churchill” FH 135, Summer 2007

DRUCKMAN, DAVID
“Retracing Churchill’s South African Escape” FH 47, Spring 1985, pageid=678

FREEMAN, DAVID
“Churchill and the Making of Iraq” FH 132, Autumn 2006
“The Friendship Between Churchill and F.E. Smith” FH 139, Summer 2008

GALBRAITH, JOHN KENNETH
“The Companion Volumes: An Appreciation” FH 57, Autumn 1987, pageid=499

GILBERT, MARTIN
“Churchill and Canada” Proceedings 1988-89, pageid=579
“Churchill and D-Day” FH 122, Spring 2004, pageid=35
“Churchill and the Holocaust” Proceedings 1992-93, pageid=611
“Churchill for Today” FH 113, Winter 2002-03, pageid=130
“Emery Reves: Retrospect and Prospect” FH 80, Third Quarter 1993, pageid=740
“Guide to Reading Churchilliana” FH 20, July-August 1971, pageid=506
“Lawrence of Judea?” FH 136, Autumn 2007
“What About the Dardanelles?” FH 126, Spring 2005, pageid=35

GLUCKSTEIN, FRED
“The Statesman John Kennedy Admired Most” FH 129, Winter 2005-06

GOLDING, RONALD E.
“WSC: A Bodyguard’s Memories” FH 34-35, Winter 1981-Spring 1982, pageid=741

HALL, DOUGLAS
“Churchill the Great? Why the Vote Won’t Be Unanimous” FH 104, Autumn 199, pageid=822

HAMBLIN, GRACE
“Frabjous Days: Chartwell Memories 1932-1965” FH 117, Winter 2002-03, pageid=35

HARDY, ROBERT
“Scaling Everest: An Actor’s Reflections” Proceedings 1987, pageid=558
“Do We Need More Churchill Drama?” Proceedings 1990-91, pageid=586

HARMON, CHRISTOPHER
“Alanbrooke and Churchill” FH 112, Autumn 2001, pageid=284

HASTINGS, MAX
“Life, Love and Liberty: Winston Churchill and His Biographer” FH 65, Fourth Quarter 1989, pageid=784

HELGEMO, RON
“Myths: WSC and FDR Knew About Pearl Harbor” FH 116, Autumn 2002, pageid=951

HERN, JOSEPH L.
“Winston Churchill and Boston 1900-1949” FH 127, Summer 2005, pageid=35

JOHNSON, WALLACE
“Bibliomania Revisited” FH 52, Summer 1986, pageid=507

KARSH, YOUSUF
“The Portraits That Changed My Life” FH 94, Spring 1997, pageid=745

KENDALL, JILL
“Churchill and Music” FH 96, Autumn 1997, pageid=1222

KIMBALL, WARREN F.
“The Bomb and the Special Relationship” FH 137, Winter 2007-08
“Principles and Compromises” Proceedings 1994-95, pageid=636
“Whodunnit? Listening in on Roosevelt and Churchill” FH 131, Summer 2006

LANCASTER, JAMES

Churchill’s French” FH 138, Spring 2008

LANGWORTH, BARBARA
“Churchill and Polo: Hot Pursuit of His Other Hobby” FH 72, Third Quarter 1991, pageid=786

LANGWORTH, RICHARD
“Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Evolution of a Phrase” FH 128, Autumn 2005, pageid=35
“Churchill and the Art of the Statesman-Writer” FH 102, Summer 1999, pageid=813
“Churchill and the Baltic” FH 53-54, Autumn-Winter 1986-87, pageid=69
“Our Vanishing National Anthems” FH 111, Summer 2001, pageid=303
“Sidney Street, Gallipoli, and Other Dead Cats” FH 35, Spring 1982, pageid=787
“That Other Winston Churchill” FH 106, Spring 2000, pageid=747

LARSON, PHIL AND SUE
“Encounters with Chicago” FH 118, Spring 2003, pageid=35
“Hallmark’s Churchill Connection” FH 137, Winter 2007-08

LUNGHI, HUGH
“Troubled Triumvirate: The Big Three at the Summit” FH 135, Summer 2007

LYSAGHT, CHARLES
“Bracken: the Fantasist Whose Dreams Came True” FH 113, Winter 2001-02, pageid=128

MACLEAN, SIR FITZROY
“Humanity: A Churchillian Characteristic” Proceedings 1987, pageid=560

MANCHESTER, WILLIAM
“‘Another Bloody Country Gone West'” FH 109, Winter 2000-01, pageid=338
“‘Undaunted by Odds’: The Battle of Britain” FH 124, Autumn 2004, pageid=35

MATHER, JOHN
“Lord Randolph Churchill: Maladies et Mort” FH 93, Winter 1996-97, pageid=767

MCIVER, PETER
“Winston Churchill and the Bombing of Coventry” FH 41, Autumn 1983, pageid=690

MCMENAMIN, MICHAEL
“Winston Churchill and the Litigious Lord” FH 95, Summer 1997, pageid=748

MONTAGUE BROWNE, ANTHONY
“Memories of Winston Churchill” FH 50, Winter 1985-86, pageid=735

MONTALBO, THOMAS
“A Study in Oratory: Seven Lessons from Churchill’s Speechmakng” FH 69, Fourth Quarter 1990, pageid=814

MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA, THE EARL
“Churchill the Warrior” FH 21-24, pageid=692

MULLER, JAMES W.
“The Noblest and Least Avoidable Conflict” Proceedings 1990-91, pageid=596

MURRAY, EDMUND
“The Churchill I Knew” Proceedings 1992-93, pageid=601

NEL, ELIZABETH
“Loyalty: A Churchillian Characteristic” FH 52, Summer 1986, pageid=750

NEWFIELD, DALTON
“Young Winston Succeeds” FH 28, Spring 1973, pageid=248

NEWMAN, HUGH
“Butterflies to Chartwell: Churchill’s Hobby” FH 89, Winter 1995-96, pageid=413

PILPEL, ROBERT
“What Churchill Owed the Great Republic” FH 125, Winter 2005-05, pageid=32

PLUMPTOM, JOHN G.
“Churchill and the Abdication” FH 54, Winter 1986-87, pageid=719
“Churchill and Canada” FH 44, Summer 1984, pageid=792

POWELL, ENOCH J.
“Churchill from the Dimension of xxTime” Proceedings 1988-89, pageid=574

POWERS, PATRICK
“Savrola and the Nobility of Politics” Savrola Number, FH 74, Spring,1992

REARDON, TERRY
“Winston Churchill and Mackenzie King” FH 130, Spring 2006
“When Mice Roared: The Thirty Minute Invasion of St. Pierre and Miquelon” FH 136, Autumn 2007

REDBURN, Ashley H.
“Great Contemporaries: Churchill Did Care about Others” FH 36, Summer 1982, pageid=472

REVES, WENDY
“The Man Who Was Here: Churchill at La Pausa” FH 63, Second Quarter 1989, pageid=1108

RICHARDS, MICHAEL
“Time’s Long March to Person of the Century” FH 105, Winter 1999-2000, pageid=829

ROBBINS, RON CYNEWULF
“Great Contemporaries: Reith of the BBC” FH 82, First Quarter 1994, pageid=753
“Great Contemporaries: Sir William Stephenson” FH 67, Second Quarter 1990, pageid=751

ROWSE, A.L.
“A Visit to Chartwell, 1955” FH 81, Fourth Quarter 1993, pageid=412

RUOTSILA, MARKKU
“Wilson and Churchill” FH 92, Autumn 1996, pageid=1223

SCHAMA, SIMON
“The Churchilliad: Martin Gilbert’s Finest Hour” FH 42, Winter 1984, pageid=496

SCHLESINGER, JR., ARTHURE M.
“History’s Impressario” Proceedings 1994-95, pageid=634

SMITH, STANLEY
“The First Revisionist: Francis Neilson” FH 51, Spring 1986, pageid=83 (five parts linked)

SNELL, ELIZABETH
“Urban Legends: Indian Forebears” FH 104, Autumn 1999, pageid=103
“The North American Churchills” FH 83, Second Quarter 1994, pageid=772

SOAMES, MARY
“Life with My Parents” FH 91, Summer 1996, pageid=775

STERLING, CHRISTOPHER
“Churchill Afloat: The Liners He Rode” FH 121, Winter 2003-04, pageid=35
“Churchill and Air Travel: Ahead of His Time” FH 118, Spring 2003, pageid=35

THATCHER, MARGARET
“New Threats for Old: Fulton, Fifty Years On” FH 90, Spring 1996, pageid=727

THOMPSON, KATHERINE
“Racing to Victory: Churchill and the Lure of the Turf ” FH 102, Spring 1999, pageid=795

WARDELL, MICHAEL
“Churchill’s Dagger: A Memoir of La Capponcina” FH 87, Summer 1995, pageid=1225

ZOLLER, CURT
“Bourke Cockran: Churchill’s American Mentor” FH 115, Summer 2002, pageid=926

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