I've found it very interesting that so many people have recommended In Search of Churchill. It is indeed a great book and very much my favorite WSC book.
Speaking of books, has anyone heard anything about when we can expect the next Companion volumes in the Hillsdale College series? I know these will be new books and not reprints so that will explain the time lag, but it's been a while since the last releases. Sandy ------------------------------------ Mr. Sandy Finlayson Director of Library Services & Professor of Theological Bibliography Westminster Theological Seminary Philadelphia, PA On Feb 18, 2013, at 9:12 AM, "Editor, Finest Hour" <[email protected]> wrote: >> Does it have to be only two books? Let me add agreement that In Search of >> Churchill is probably Sir Martin's best single book, but his slim and >> eloquent Churchill's Political Philosophy is also a one-of-a-kind work, >> though hard to come by now. (Try bookfinder.com.) > >> Then there is.....but wait! Here are the top five from our 40th anniversary >> issue (FH 140), which proposed the best fifty books of the past fifty >> years.... > > Gilbert, Martin. In Search of Churchill: A Historian’s Journey, 1994, 338 > pages,Zoller A558. > The answer to whingers over the years who accused Gilbert of being > uncritical. Having examined more evidence than anyone in writing the official > biography, Gilbert states that he came away even more impressed with > Churchill’s intellect, generosity, statesmanship and humanity. Cited by > Finest Hour as the best Churchill book of 1994, it is especially useful in > showing how Gilbert found his primary source material and ferreted out > information from often obscure witnesses to history. > > Gilbert, Martin. Churchill: A Photographic Portrait, 1974, 354 photos, Zoller > A383. > Complementing Lady Soames’s Family Album (page 27) as one of the two best > photo-documentaries, this is less of a family photo collection than a > catholic compilation with emphasis on the political side by the official > biographer, whose captions are expert and extensive. Highly recommended, it > has been reprinted frequently over the years and is readily available in > paperback as well as hardback. Zoller A383. > > Gilbert, Martin. Churchill: A Life, 1991, 1066 pages, Zoller A528. > Not an abridgment, as is often imagined, this is a ground-up biography > designed to be read in much shorter time than the full-scale official > biography. Gilbert includes much information which was not known when the > original volumes were written, especially the early volumes. Chronological > like the O.B., this is an indispensable trove of well-researched facts. > > Gilbert, Martin. Churchill and America, 2005, 504 pages. > Churchill’s love of his Mother’s land was evident from an early age and > stayed with him for life, but he was not an uncritical lover. He deploredU.S. > reluctance to engage in world affairs after World War I, and with Russia > after WW2, and hoped for more than he got from the “special relationship.” > Here is the whole story, good, bad and ugly, with the fastidious maps that > are among his hallmarks. Reading like a fast-paced novel, this book is now > the standard work on the subject. > > Gilbert, Martin. Churchill and the Jews, 2007, 384 pages. > The subject is traced individually and collectively, beginning with > Churchill’s representing a heavily Jewish constituency and ending with his > support for Israel, with vast detail on WSC’s involvement in the Jewish > Homeland from the Balfour declaration to the 1937 Peel Commission and beyond. > No one is better able to write such a history, > which eclipses earlier works on the subject by Rabinowicz and Cohen. See also > Makovsky, Churchill's Promised Land, below. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ChurchillChat" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
