Just listening to “Six Minutes In May” by Nicholas Shakespeare that focuses on the bungled UK-France counter attack on Germany’s invasion of Norway.
Winston Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, does not come out of that counter offensive well.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/430462/six-minutes-in-may-by-nicholas-shakespeare/9781784701000
Winston Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, does not come out of that counter offensive well.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/430462/six-minutes-in-may-by-nicholas-shakespeare/9781784701000
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@iandunt.bsky.social
I have to be v sparing with podcasts as I find it difficult to assimilate factual information that way. I tend to go back and forth on factual stuff and keep on wanting to go and check a point in more depth before returning to the main text.
It didn’t stop him rewriting history & his rôle in the early débacle in his memoire “The Gathering Storm”.
In a less flattering way than Johnson would like I do see similarities!
Was good at claiming responsibility for successes and blaming others for his failures.
Mercurial and moody. Like a child he got bored with failures turning his attention elsewhere to pet projects.
Trump would be delighted to know they had such mercurial similarities...
But unlike Churchill, I doubt Donald has even opened a book in the past 60 years!
But there are great similarities in them all.
Conceit, self-serving vanity, total disregard for others.
What is fascinating is the way Trump achieved his status despite being one of the most stupid men to ever grace the world stage.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/18/six-minutes-in-may-how-churchill-unexpectedly-became-prime-minister-review-nicholas-shakespeare
It has always been extremely difficult to get understanding from the French, the British or the Americans. Always!