affairs
birth
death
extravagance
marriages
reputation as a beauty
William Manchester’s description of
Churchill, John, 1st Duke of Marlborough
Churchill, John, 7th Duke of Marlborough (grandfather of W. C.)
Churchill, Marigold (daughter of W. C.)
Churchill, Mary (Lady Soames, daughter of W. C.)
Churchill, Randolph (father of W. C.)
death
depression
disappointment in his son
extravagance
influence on his son
political career
sexual activity
W. C.’s writings about
Churchill, Randolph (son of W. C.)
Churchill, Sarah, 1st Duchess of Marlborough
Churchill, Sarah (Lady Audley, daughter of W. C.)
Churchill: The End of Glory (Charmley)
Churchill: Visions of Glory (Manchester)
Churchill, Winston
birth
burial at Blenheim Palace
childhood pets
children
death
early childhood
facts and assumptions
family background
fatherhood and family life
funeral
health
heroic views of
historical context
honors and awards
illnesses and injuries
marriage
memorial in Westminster Abbey
nicknames
retirement
timeline of key events
vital statistics
See also character and personal qualities of W. C.; photographs of W. C.; political career of W. C.
Churchill, Winston, American novelist
Citizen Kane,
Clarke, Kenneth
Clifford, Clark
Clough, Arthur Hugh
Cody, Buffalo Bill
Collins, Michael
Colville, John (Jock)
Conservative Party
See also political career of W. C.
contemporaries of W. C.
Cooper, Diana
Coward, Noël
Cowles, Virginia
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon)
Derby, Lord
Diana, Princess of Wales
Digby, Pamela
Douglas-Home, Alec
The Duel: Hitler vs. Churchill (Lukacs)
The Duke’s Children (Trollope)
Dulles, John Foster
Eckersley, Peter
Eden, Anthony
education of W. C.
at boarding school
at Harrow
at Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst
self-teaching
Edward VII, King of England
Edward VIII, King of England
Einstein, Albert
Eisenhower, Dwight
Elizabeth II, Queen of England
Empire story of W. C.
class contexts
decline of the Empire
heroic tragedy of W. C.
hopes for union with the U.S.
impoverishment by World War II
Indian independence
map
racial contexts
travel of W. C.
Essays (Macaulay)
Ethelred the Unready, King of England
Everest, Elizabeth (nanny “Woom”)
Fisher, Lord
Fonteyn, Margot
Franks, Oliver
Freemasonry
Freud, Sigmund
Gandhi, Mahatma
Garbo, Greta
George V, King of England
George VI, King of England
Gibbon, Edward
Gibraltar’s apes
Gilbert, Martinn
Gilbert and Sullivan operas
Gladstone, William
Goebbels, Joseph
Goldberg Variations (J. S. Bach)
Gospels of the New Testament
government posts held by W. C.
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Colonial Secretary
First Lord of the Admiralty
First Lord of the Admiralty
Home Secretary
Minister of Defense
Minister of Munitions
President of the Board of Trade
Secretary of State for War and Air
Undersecretary of State for the Colonies
See also Prime Ministry of W. C.
Graham, Billy
Grant, Ulysses
Great Contemporaries (W. Churchill)
The Great Dictator (film)
Grimthorpe, Lord
Haggard, H. Rider
Haile Selassie
Halifax, Lord. See Wood, Edward (Lord Halifax)
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Hanfstaengel, Putzi
Harriman, Pamela
“Haystack” series (Monet)
Hearst, William Randolph
Henry V (Shakespeare)
heroic views of W. C.
criticism of
support for
tragic hero version
Hiss, Alger
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (W. Churchill)n
focus on politics and war
the Island story
Hitler, Adolf
“A great Empire will be destroyed . . .” speech
death
on the Duke of Windsor
“I am willing to sign anything. . . .” speech
leadership style
personal insecurity
“The stronger man is right . . .” speech
W. C.’s insight into
Hoover, Herbert
Hopwood, Francis
Hore-Belisha, Leslie
House of Commons
See also political career of W. C.
Housman, A. E.
Hozier, Clementine. See Churchill, Clementine
Ian Hamilton’s March (W. Churchill)
Imperialism. See Empire story of W. C.
India
W. C.’s opposition to independence
W. C.’s racist attitudes towards
Inönü, Ismet
Island story of W. C.
Ismay, Hastings (Pug)
Jacob, Ian
James, Henry
Jenkins, Roy
Jerome, Jennie. See Churchill, Jennie
Jerome, Leonard
Julius Caesar
Keegan, John
Keller, Helen
Kelly, Grace
Kennedy, John F.
Kennedy, Joseph
Kershaw, Ian
Keynes, John Maynard
King, Mackenzie
King John (Shakespeare)
King Solomon’s Mines (Haggard)
Kipling, Rudyard
Kitchener, Lord
Kurosawa, Akira
Lady Hamilton (film)
The Last Lion (Manchester)
Lawrence, T. E. (of Arabia)
Leslie, Anita
Liberal Party
See also political career of W. C.
Lind, Jennie
Lives (Plutarch)
Lloyd George, David
Lockhart, Robert Bruce
Londonderry, Lord
London to Ladysmith via Pretoria (W. Churchill)
Lord Randolph Churchill (W. Churchill)
Low, David
Luce, Henry
Lukacs, John
Macaulay, Thomas
MacDonald, Ramsey
Macmillan, Harold
Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum
The Malakand Field Force (W. Churchill)
Malcolm, Janet
Manchester, William
map of the British Empire
Marlborough: His Life and
Times (W. Churchill)
Marlborough, 1st Duke of. See Churchill, John, 1st Duke of Marlborough
Marlborough, 7th Duke of. See Churchill, John, 7th Duke of Marlborough
Marsh, Edward
Martin, John
Marx, Karl
Maugham, Somerset
Maurois, André
military service of W. C.
ambition
army service
in India
in “little wars,”
during World War I
Moir, Phyllis
Monet, Claude
Montgomery, Bernard
Moran, Lord. See Wilson, Charles McMoran (Lord Moran)
Morrison, Herbert
Morton, H. V.
Mr. Churchill in 1940: A Portrait of a Great Man at a Great Moment (Berlin)
Murrow, Edward R.
My African Journey (W. Churchill)
My Early Life (W. Churchill)
Napoleon
Nel, Elizabeth
Nicolson, Haroldn
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Nixon, Richard
Nobel Prize in literature
The Oaken Heart (Allingham)
Olivier, Laurence
Onassis, Aristotle
Order of the Garter
Orpen, William
Painting as a Pastime (W. Churchill)
Pankhurst, Emmeline
Patton, George
photographs of W. C.
aged seven
in Berlin
beside an airplane
celebrating victory in Europe
with Chamberlain
with Clementine
in Fourth Hussars uniform
with his mother
on HMS Prince of Wales
painting
at polo match
with Queen Elizabeth II
with Roosevelt
in siren suit
statue in Parliament Square, London
“V” for victory
of W. C.’s symbols
of World War II activities
at Yalta
Pliny
Plutarch’s Lives,
political career of W. C.
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belief in his own destiny
belligerence
comments on socialism
Dardanelles campaign
defeat of 1899
defeat of 1922
defeat of 1945
defense of Edward VIII’s marriage
demands on his staff
domestic policies
emotionalism in public
establishment of the British Air Force
fascination with modern technology
“finest hour,” May 28
first election to the House of Commons
influence of his father
insight into the Nazi threat
Leader of the Opposition
leadership style
love of pomp and ceremony
management style
party switching
reactionary views
relationship with FDR
rises and falls
royalist beliefs
views on women’s suffrage
vision of England’s glory
wilderness years (1929–1939)
See also Empire story of W. C.; government posts held by W. C.; Island story of W. C.; Prime Ministry of W. C.
Ponting, Clive
Porter, Katherine Anne
portraits of W. C.
Pound, Admiral
Prime Ministry of W. C.
from 1951–1955
belief in his own destiny
choice of, by Chamberlain
defeat in 1945
“finest hour,” May 28
indifference to public opinion
management style
use of media
during World War II
See also public speaking; World War II
Profumo, John
public speaking of W. C.
ability to inspire
humor
inability to extemporize
quotability
role of emotionn
style and vocabulary
use of a proxyn
See also speeches
Pygmalion (Shaw)
Rashomon (Kurosawa)
Reves, Emery
Rhodes, James Robert
Richard II (Shakespeare)
Richard III (Shakespeare)
The River War (W. Churchill)
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
on alcohol use of W. C.
correspondence with W. C.
meetings with W. C. and others
relationship with W. C.
undermining of the British Empire
W. C.’s behavior towards
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rose, Norman
Rothschild, Lionel Walter
“Rouen Cathedral” series (Monet)
Royal Academy exhibition of 1947
Russell, Wendy
Sackville-West, Vita
Salisbury, Lord. See Cecil, Robert
Sandys, Duncan
Sassoon, Siegfried
Savrola (W. Churchill)
“Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth” (Clough)
Scott, Percy
The Second World War (W. Churchill)
Seely, Jack
servants of W. C.
Mrs. Everest (nanny)
valets
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Lawrence)
Shakespeare
Shaw, George Bernard
Shelley, Norman
Sheridan, Clare
Simpson, Wallis
Snow, C. P.
Soames, Christopher
speeches
“. . . a greater day . . .”
“. . . a riddle wrapped in a mystery . . .”
“. . . blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
“. . . certain splendid memory . . .”
Chamberlain’s eulogy
“. . . each one of us lies choking,”
“. . . if he feeds the crocodile . . .”
“. . . iron curtain . . .”
“London can take it.”
“. . . lots of people can make good plans . . .”
“Never give in . . .”
“Never was so much owed . . .”
“. . . Poland is indestructible . . .”
“Put your confidence in us . . .”
“. . . slippery slope,”
“Socialism seeks to pull down . . .”
“. . . the lion heart.”
“. . . the liquidation of the British Empire.”
“. . . the tough fibre of the Londoners . . .”
“. . . the worst features of Communism . . .”
“. . . this was their finest hour,”
“. . . we shall never surrender;”
“. . . whatever happens at Dunkirk . . .”
Stalin, Joseph
Stanley, Venetia
Stettinius, Edward
Stevens, Wallace
Stevenson, Frances
Storr, Anthony
The Story of the Malakand Field Force (W. Churchill)
Strachey, Lytton
Sutherland, Graham
symbols of W. C.
cigars
hats
siren suits
uniforms
use of liquor
“V” for victory
Taylor, A.J.P.
Tedder, Arthur
“The Scaffolding of Rhetoric” (W. Churchill)
“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” (Stevens)
Thoughts and Adventures (W. Churchill)
time line of key events
Time magazine
Tito, Josip Broz
“The Tower of Katoubia Mosque” (W. Churchill)
tragic hero version of W. C.’s life and c
areer
Trollope, Anthony
Truman, Harry
Twain, Mark
United States
Atlantic Charter
entry into World War II
honorary citizenship of W. C.
W. C.’s hopes of union with
W. C.’s trust in
Vanderbilt, Consuelo
Vice-Regal Lodge, Dublin
Victoria, Queen of England
Wavell, Archibaldn
Webb, Beatrice
Weizmann, Chaim
Wells, H. G.
Westminster Abbey
William the Conqueror
Wilson, Charles McMoran (Lord Moran)
Wilson, Harold
Winston S. Churchill: Finest Hour (Gilbert)
Winston S. Churchill: The Prophet of Truth (Gilbert)
Wood, Edward (Lord Halifax)
Woolf, Virginia
The World Crisis (W. Churchill)
World War I
Dardanelles campaign
emergence of pacifism
First Lord of the Admiralty
military service of W. C.
World War II
Atlantic Charter
Battle of Britain
D-Day
declaration of war on Japan
defeat of Rommel’s army
evacuation of Dunkirk
“finest hour” of W. C.
heroic view of W. C.
impoverishment of the Empire
invasion of the U.S.S.R.
Japan’s surrender
Lend–Lease Act
London blitz
Munich appeasement
Norway campaign
pacifist views
Pearl Harbor attack
Placentia Bay meeting
Potsdam Conference
Quebec Conference
Singapore surrendern
Tehran Conference
United States’ role
victory in Europe
W. C.’s support of resistance movements
W. C.’s visits to the front
W C.’s visit to Berlin
Yalta meetingn
writings of W. C.
biographies
British history
correspondence with FDR
earnings from
heroic language use
historic memoirs
journalism career
lack of interest in romance and sexuality
quantity
quotability
See also names of specific works
Yeats, William Butler
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