World History
Related: About this forumStill reading about Churchill
Its pretty lengthy book and I got it for that reason at the start of lockdown. I got several books and am finished with the others. But as Britain is drawn into war and Churchill takes over I cant help but think of the lack of leadership we suffer from the orange one. Churchill was very well read (and wrote himself), very articulate. I read somewhere he had a vocabulary 6 times as large as the average man. He had a way with words that could get his point across without out right threats and bravado. He certainly had his faults but he was the man they needed in those dark times. There cant even be a reasonable comparison between a real leader and the ineffectual bully and cry baby we are suffering with. And when rethugs were comparing the orange shit stain to Winnnie awhile back I couldnt believe it. Just firing off some thoughts, the reading is slow going but very interesting.
As Ive said before if trump was in charge during WWII wed all be speaking German right now.
3Hotdogs
(13,560 posts)we'd all be speaking British right now.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)It started with "The Last Lion."
Excellent read. I think each volume is about 800 pages in length, but still, exquisite writing.
captain queeg
(11,780 posts)I read a series many years ago, I think it was by Churchill himself. Dont remember the titles but I think they made use of terms he came up with like The Grand Alliance. This book Im reading now uses Finest Hour so maybe its actually part of that series and my memory fails me.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)And never tried to pretend they weren't suffering. With all his many flaws, he was a great man.