August 25, 2010
"FINEST HOURS" in The New Yorker
A Multi-Page Anniversary Article
Adam Gopnik in the August 30 issue of The New Yorker reassesses Churchill's long career while also reviewing the latest crop of Churchill books in an article entitled "FINEST HOURS: The Making of Winston Churchill". Irritating here and there, but well worth reading.
July 7, 2010
"I decline utterly to be impartial as between the fire brigade and the fire."
Churchill and the British Gazette
We have a very rare complete set of The British Gazette.
June 18, 2010
THEIR FINEST HOUR in The New York Times
An Excellent Anniversary Article
"Seventy years ago, on June 18, 1940, Winston Churchill...rose in the House of Commons and...sought to rally his countrymen with what has gone down in history as his 'finest hour' speech."
June 15, 2010
Cigar Begone
A Tale of Boneheaded Political Correctness
A London museum today acknowledged that a photograph of Winston Churchill hanging over the museum entrance had been digitally altered to erase the cigar from Churchill's mouth.
June 14, 2010
"I Love Paris"
A SIGNED First French Edition
On this day in 1940, Paris fell to the Nazis. Eight years later, the first volume of Churchill's war memoirs was published in France. We have an extraordinarily rare SIGNED copy of this first volume.
June 9, 2010
On this day in 1921, Winston Churchill’s mother, Jennie, died of complications after a fall, at the age of 67. We recently acquired a number of books from the library of Lady Randolph Churchill, including a First Edition copy of William Hazlitt’s LIBER AMORIS Or, The New Pygmalion
January 24, 2010
Watch Charles Osgood's January 24 visit to Chartwell Booksellers on CBS Sunday Morning.
February 28, 2009
The President, The P.M. and the Book
A Nugget of Behind-the-Scenes Diplomatic History
Perhaps you are aware of the stir our new President caused when he returned to the British government a bust of Winston Churchill that, in the immediate wake of September 11, then-Prime Minister Tony Blair had presented as a sign of solidarity to then-President Bush.
LINKS
Churchill Archives Centre at Churchill College, Cambridge University, England.
Chartwell: The National Trust's official site for Winston Churchill's former home in Kent.
No. 10 Downing Street: A fascinating photo tour of Winston Churchill's residence during his years as Prime Minister.
Churchill and World War Two: Audio archives from the BBC.
Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms: Churchill's World War II bunker, the locus from which the war was waged, now restored and transformed into a spectacular museum.
Harrow School: Winston Churchill's alma mater.
Churchill's birthplace at Blenheim Palace.
The Churchill Centre: Founded in 1968 to foster the thoughts, words, works and deeds of Winston Spencer Churchill.
The Churchill Book Specialist: Another fine purveyor of rare Churchill books.
The Winston Churchill Shop: Everything that Churchilliana can offer, from porcelains to planters. An extraordinary range of collectibles.