Dan, Barbara & Jim, I guess I need to learn this system. I sent thanks to each individually. I should have saved electrons (photons on fiber) and thanked you all at once. I do greatly appreciate everyone's rapid response. I now have my material and sources for a great introduction featuring Clementine, not Winston, and a great character who causes me much angst every time I encounter him in reading military history.
Speaking of military history (which of course isn't the topic of this thread, but I would like to return your favor), I can very highly recommend an outstanding author. If you haven't read the first two volumes of a trilogy on WWIIt by Rick Atkinson's, I suggest you might want to check him out. He has written "An Army at Dawn," the African campaign and"The Day of Battle," the Italian campaign. He won a Pulitzer for the first volume. The third volume, on the Normandy campaign to the end of the war, is yet to be published. I was fortunate to hear him give a keynote speech at a recent Military History Society meeting that I attended. He is as great a speaker as he is an author. The reason I find his work so remarkable is that it is beautifully written (if writing about war can be beautiful). It is the best coverage I have encountered that treats with equal insight and emotion the plight, behavior, feelings and challenges of combat and decision making in war from the grunts to the generals. Churchill is also often quoted. And the quotes from letters to and from the battlefield by family and soldiers really makes one feel, from the comfort of your chair, what our soldiers went through in WWII. Forgive the extension to the original intent of thanking you all. Best regards to my Churchill colleagues and again thank you, Lew On Sep 2, 2:32 pm, Lew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have any stories, insights or references on Churchill and > the game of croquet? > > The Denver Croquet Club has invited our Churchill Centre Affiliate, > The Rocky Mountain Churchillians, to participate in a gathering & game > on September 21st. I have been asked to say a few words about > Churchill and croquet at Chartwell. I have seen the beautiful croquet > lawn at Chartwell in my visits there and I know Churchill loved games. > However, I have not been able to come up with any definitive > information on the subject of Churchill and croquet, such as, did he > in fact enjoy playing the game; who of note might he have played with > him at Chartwell, besides, I assume, his family, children and > grandchildren? > > I would greatly appreciate any stories or references. > > Best regards to all, > > Lew House --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ChurchillChat?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
