Richard M. Langworth founded in 1968 the Churchill Study Unit and its journal, Finest Hour, which he edited for 35 years. Since 2014 he has been Senior Fellow for the Churchill Project at Hillsdale College in Michigan. He lives in Moultonborough, New Hampshire, and Eleuthera, Bahamas.

Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1. Youth

1."Chief leader of men"

2.Jennie's Indiscretions, Jack's Parentage

[...] Menace of Education

[...] Killed Lord Randolph?

Part 2. Young Statesman

[...] for Women

[...] Sinking of the Titanic

[...] Unpleasantness on Sidney Street

8."The sullen feet of marching men in Tonypandy"

9.Ireland: "We could never have done anything without him"

Part 3. World War

10."All his war paint"

[...] Defense of Antwerp

12."What about the Dardanelles?"

13.Losing the Lusi

14.America and World War I

15.Chemical Warfare

Part 4. Between the World Wars

16."Taking more out of alcohol"

[...] Bolshevik Menace

[...] by Jewry

[...] Trouble with Mr. Gandhi

20.Mussolini, Lawgiver and Jackal

21.Hitler as a "Great Contemporary"

Part 5. World War

[...] Voice They Heard

23."Collar the lot"

24.Torturous Topics

[...] Bombing of Coventry

[...] Second Front Fracas

[...] Bomber

28.Starving the Indians

[...] Brain in Spain Was Absent from the Plane

[...] Destruction of Monte Cassino

[...] to Do About Auschwitz?

32.Feeding the Oppressed

Part 6. Postwar Years

33.Spheres of Influence

34.Nuking Moscow

35.Trouble 'n' Strife

[...] European Union

[...] Common Touch

Appendix 1. Minor Myths, Fables and Things That Go Bump in the Night

Appendix 2. Red Herrings: Mythological Churchill Quotes

Appendix 3. The Hillsdale College Churchill Project

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index