The Hillsdale College Churchill Project offers notes on books about Churchill from 1905 on. See https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/books-about-winston-churchill/
For Charmley's "End of Glory" we write.... "What publicized this work was a section arguing that Churchill should have backed away from fighting Germany in 1940 in order to preserve Britain’s wealth, power and empire. (Charmley did not say “make peace with Hitler,” as some reviewers stated.) Per the author, Churchill chose instead to make Britain a client state of America, allowing Soviet power to wax and the British Empire to wane. Whatever we may think of that argument, this is a well written, critical biography from a self-described “Thatcherite” historian. The bibliography lists every significant book in English relating to the political Churchill, but is light on foreign works. Prof. Charmley provided an entertaining interlude 25 (my gawd) years ago. You can download these issues by Googling "Finest Hour 78" and so on: Finest Hour 78: Langworth, "Elvis Lives: John Charmley's Tabloid Winston" pp10-13 Finest Hour 79: Letters. "Charmley's Vision: Peace in Their Time" (including Charmley's reply), pp32-34 Finest Hour 81: Schoenfeld, "Glorious Failure" pp32-33 and Arnn, "Too Easy to be Good" pp33-40 Finest Hour 83: Letters. Charmley's reply to above reviews, p40 and Weidhorn, "Salvaging Charmley" p41 Charmley's book is well crafted and without the venom and hysteria of more recent revisionists. His sequel, *Churchill's Grand Alliance,* is worth reading for its painful account of how Britain fared later, in the not-so-special-relationship. And John is personally a quite decent chap. After our exchanges he invited me to lunch at his club. I promised to order the most expensive Pol Roger on the menu. *Singapore and Percival are mentioned on page 487 (London edition, "Grand Alliance" chapter) but this is a political biography not a history of the war. The definitive source for that is Martin Gilbert's *Winston S. Churchill,* vol. 7, *Road to Victory. *http://bit.ly/2wZN8jO On the sinking of HMS *Prince of Wales *and *Repulse *off Malaya, see Chris Bell and Robin Brodhurst, "Did Churchill Underrate Warship Vulnerability from the Air?" https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/churchill-underrate-warship-vulnerability-air/ Incidentally, Churchill questioned why no guns at Singapore were aimed in the landward direction as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the 1920s, but did not pursue the matter. Richard M Langworth CBE Senior Fellow, Hillsdale College Churchill Project winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu richardlangworth.com Amazon author: https://www.amazon.com/author/rmlangworth <https://www.amazon.com/gp/r.html?C=Z9SQXHR9LXA4&M=urn:correios:msg:201809081637102225379ea2b642b4a00d0acbb800p0na&R=3E2VB1BLY5CI5&T=C&U=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fauthor%2Frmlangworth%3Fref_%3Dpe_1724030_132998060&H=D217IAT2170XA9BHIBFWYWVD8AWA&ref_=pe_1724030_132998060> Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/rmlangworth -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to churchillchat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to churchillchat@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
