[ChurchillChat] Re: Churchill: The End of Glory - A Political Biography (Teach Yourself)7 Jan 1993 John Charmley. A question.

Correction to my note above. Prof. Antoine Capet reminds me that Singapore's problem in 1941 was not so much its guns, which could be pointed landward, but its type of shells. The defenders had armor-piercing shells (designed to sink ships) but not enough high explosive shells that would

[ChurchillChat] Re: Sir Winston Churchill on USS Randolph

On Thursday, May 4, 2017 at 9:29:51 AM UTC-5, Gary Santos wrote: > > I'm researching the history of the aircraft carrier USS Randolph. Winston > Churchill visited the USS Randolph on October 26, 1958 in Canne, France. > Supposedly, this was his first visit to a US warship since the end on

Re: [ChurchillChat] Re: Churchill: The End of Glory - A Political Biography (Teach Yourself)7 Jan 1993 John Charmley. A question.

**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