Churchill himself offers a slightly less heroic, but more humorous --
and human -- account. He sometimes adjusted accounts after, of course,
in the case of My Early Life to inspire young men of Britain to follow
his example as an average man. Same reason he often focused on stories
of how poor
According to Lord Moran, (Churchill: The Struggle for Survival,
556), WSC offered this charming P.S. when Dick Molyneaux died in 1954
(Churchill by Himself, 461):
He will take my skin with him, a kind of advance guard, into the next
world.
Guess I don't know my Irishmen--WSC's quote sounds like
One question would be, was it part of his job to visit hospitals? The only time that I can think of when it would have been was when he was a battalion commander in the Royal Scots Fusiliers when (if possible) it would have been part of his job to have visited wounded from his command. Of
I watching a WWII series ( can't remember the name) they also
mentioned that Churchill did not go to a hospital. They also mentioned
thou that he didn't go because he couldn't handle seeing the troops
injured. G.Sparrow
On Jun 22, 2009, at 15:03, Mike Robinson mrobinson...@yahoo.com
