Churchill's Statesmanship, 1935-1945 - Sir Martin Gilbert

[@Avicenna10]

Thank you for sharing this. I am a huge admirer of both Churchill and his official biographer, the late, and truly great, Sir Martin Gilbert.

[@patsirianni7984]

Sir Winston Churchill The Greatest Man of the Twentieth Century

[@DipakBose-bq1vv]

A disgusting racist and mass murderer of a racist country England.

[@cwartelle]

He gave this lecture on the night before the 9/11 attack.He mentions that he had spoken with President GW Bush that very day. I wonder how that conversation affected history.

[@ephelduath610]

Remarkable lecture!

[@davidsabillon5182]

This guy is the best author on Churchill

[@texasray5237]

He's the official biographer. So everybody else is unofficial, illicit, etc. He has total authority over the truth.

[@therealniksongs]

​@@texasray5237"official" means that he was allowed access to all the relevant government and personal documents, having taken over the project from Randoph Churchill after Randolph's death.

[@therealniksongs]

No one knew more on the subject. Perhaps not even Sir Winston himself.

[@Zalley]

Speech given day before 9/11?

[@davidrasch3082]

I have the Hillsdale multivolume biography which I am reading in parallel with Sir Martin's history of the twentieth century. Will have to pause for Sir Winston's history of WWI and WWII. As a retiree I have the time.

Oxbridge-educated historians are arguably the best. So much for our demotic and idiotic times.

[@JamesLee-di2zt]

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[@willbest1547]

Thank you

The British are against FOREIGN rule; this goes a long way towards explaining Brexit.

Martin Gilbert, John Röhl ( Biographer of Kaiser Bill (3 volumes), Robert Caro ( LBJ's biographer) are to be admired if only because of their utter dedication to their subject ( Their wives must also be admired for their unstinting decade-long support) .

An Anglo-German Axis MIGHT have saved the British Empire. It would have meant the total annihilation of the Jewish race and the death of 50 million Russians. But the "State is a cold monster" and power politics was and is the name of the game. ALAS; ALAS.

[@johnzeszut3170]

Yes Churchill - a legend in his own mind.

We used to have CAFE society, now this has become NESCAFE society.

[@Nounismisation]

She's cute, with weird hair.

[@texasray5237]

Any time someone has an "official biographer" you know its all BS.

[@andyball1317]

He forgets to mention what a war mongering sob Churchill was who lost our Empire, sold us to the US n reduced the UK to penury, at least he got to keep his big house ))

[@svenhoek]

+Andy Ball Meh - I wouldn't complain too loudly - now you have the US to do the dirty work for you.

[@martyrobinson149]

Churchill didn't lose the Empire. The British Empire slowly evolved into the Commonwealth after the First World War. The Commonwealth still stands today in 2016. The UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other's all have the same Queen. The English speaking countries stand united, not divided. Churchill didn't sell Britain to America. American forces came to Britain to help fight the European Axis Power's and later Soviet Russia. America does not own Britain.

[@cwartelle]

Churchill knew that we must defeat fascism, with the communists help, before the communists could be enveloped by the power of free democracies.

[@truckerfromreno]

@@martyrobinson149 The British had been trying to give up the very costly, and increasingly troublesome Empire for decades. "take up the white man's burden...," was penned to the isolationist Americans. The British handed the baton of power over to it's first choice the USA.

[@stflaw]

Thanks to Churchill, you didn't type your asinine comment in German.