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Reading notes: Churchill’s insight and the willful ignorance The Times of London

June 4, 2018 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: journalism.

Winston Churchill caricature

Author William Manchester called it “unfathomable.” Manchester’s magisterial three-volume biography of Winston Churchill (The Last Lion) contains an interesting description of the attitude of The Times of London toward the rise of Adolph Hitler in volume 2, Alone. While Churchill in the mid-1930s was the single voice among the upper reaches of the British ruling • Read More »