Finest Hour 173, Summer 2016 Page 40 Gabriel Gorodetsky, ed, The Maisky Diaries, Red Ambassador to the Court of St James’s 1932–1943, Yale University Press, 2015, 632 pages, $40 ISBN 978–0300180671 Review by D Craig...

Finest Hour 173, Summer 2016 Page 41 Werner Vogt, Winston Churchill und die Schweiz: Vom Monte Rosa zum Triumphzug durch Zürich,Verlag Neue Zürcher  Zeitung, 2015, 231 pages ISBN 978–3038100867 Review by Jochen Burgtorf Jochen Burgtorf is...

Finest Hour 173, Summer 2016 Page 50 Seventy years ago at Zurich University Winston Churchill delivered one of his most important post-war speeches (see pages 7, 31, and 41) Although given the...

In May 1926 the Trades Union Congress called a national stoppage – or general strike – in support of the miners who were being asked to work longer hours for less...

Introduced by Richard M Langworth For better or worse, it was Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill who chaired the 1921 Cairo Conference which created the Middle East borders we still know today What...

Introduced by Richard M Langworth...

In 1909, when the House of Lords rejected Lloyd George’s ‘People’s Budget’, Churchill responded by attacking the peers for their pursuit of class interests He became president of the Budget League...

Introduced by Richard M Langworth...

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