Finest Hour

Winston Churchill was one of the greatest statesmen in world history – widely revered, sometime reviled and universally recognized for his tenacious leadership.

Finest Hour, the Journal of Winston Churchill, is the flagship publication of The Churchill Centre. Each quarterly issue is packed with expert analysis and insightful discussion from prominent authors, historians, and journalists on all aspects of Churchill’s life and times. Finest Hour dispels the myths, explores the rousing speeches, and reviews the most interesting books, all thoughtfully written, thoroughly researched, and presented by a team of experts.

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FINEST HOUR

Churchill’s Presidents

Letters

Dr. Monroe E. Trout Awarded Winston Churchill Leadership Medal

The International Churchill Society gratefully acknowledges donors to the Society in support of its many educational endeavors.

Prelude to Power: Churchill and the American Presidency before the Second World War

Endnotes

Franklin D. Roosevelt • “The Greatest Champion of Freedom”

Truman Visits Chartwell

Winston Churchill and the Approach to D-Day

Winston Churchill—Honorary Citizen

The White House Bronze: • President Lyndon B. Johnson Welcomes Winston’s Wartime Friends to Washington

Winston Churchill: • The Largest Human Being of Our Time

Observing “Churchill at the Helm”

American Presidents and Winston Churchill at Westminster College

ACTION THIS DAY

A Popular Loser • John Ireland, Churchill & Son, 2021, Dutton/John Murray, 453 pages, $34/£15/CAN $45 ISBN 978–1524744458

Complete Picture • Celia Lee and John Lee, The Churchills: A Family Portrait, Lume Books, 2021, 450 pages, $14.99/£12.99. ISBN 979–8744592554

Diverse Trio • Rachel Trethewey, The Churchill Girls: The Story of Winston’s Daughters, The History Press, 2021, 320 pages, £14.32/$29.61. ISBN 978–0750993241

Key Canadian • Neville Thompson, The Third Man: Churchill, Roosevelt, Mackenzie King, and the Untold Friendships That Won WWII, Sutherland House Books, 2021, 484 pages, CAN $39.95. ISBN 978–1989555262

The Ultimate Social Climber • Simon Heffer, ed., Henry “Chips” Channon, The Diaries: 1919–38, Hutchinson, 2021, 1,002 pages, £35. ISBN 978–1786331816

Quantum Query • Kieran Whitworth, The Churchill Quiz Book: How Much Do You Know about Britain’s Wartime Leader? Osprey, 2021, 256 pages, £9.99/US$15/ Can$20.50. ISBN 978–1472845771

In Memoriam HRH The Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh (1921–2021)

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