Winston S. Churchill, 1874-1965 : a comprehensive historiography and annotated bibliography / Eugene L. Rasor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rasor, Eugene L., 1936-

Series:

Bibliographies of world leaders 1056-5523 ; no. 6.

Bibliographies of world leaders, 1056-5523 ; no. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965--Bibliography.

Churchill, Winston.

Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965--Archival resources--Directories.

Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965--Manuscripts--Union lists.

Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965.

Politics and government.

Archival resources.

Manuscripts.

Great Britain--Politics and government--20th century--Archival resources--Directories.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Politics and government--20th century--Sources--Union lists.

Great Britain--Politics and government--20th century--Bibliography.

Prime ministers--Great Britain--Biography--Sources.

Prime ministers.

Genre:

Biographies.

Sources.

Bibliographies.

Union catalogs.

Directories.

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 704 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.

Summary:

The most extensive and up-to-date bibliographic and historiographical survey of works by and about Churchill.

Contents:

Part I Historiographical Narrative

Chapter 2 Manuscript and Archival Resources 7

A. Churchill College Archives Centre 7

B. Official Depositories 8

1. The Public Record Office 8

2. The British Library 9

3. The House of Lords Record Office 9

4. The Royal Archives 10

5. The Imperial War Museum 10

6. The India Office Library and Records 10

7. The Australian War Museum 10

8. The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library 11

9. The Harry S Truman Presidential Library 11

10. The Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library 11

C. Other Archival Holdings 11

1. The Churchill Center of Washington, D.C. 11

2. The Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives 12

3. The Hartley Library, University of Southampton 12

4. The University Library, Cambridge 12

5. The Bodleian Library, Oxford University 12

6. The John Rylands Library, University of Manchester 12

7. The University of Birmingham Library 13

8. The Centre for Second World War Studies 13

9. The Royal United Services Institute 13

10. The Winston S. Churchill Memorial and Library 13

11. The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace 14

D. Diaries, Papers, and Memoirs 14

1. Diaries and Memoirs 14

2. Unique Publishers 14

a. The Library of Imperial History 14

b. The Carolina Academic Press 14

Chapter 3 Reference Publications 15

A. Bibliographies 15

1. Bibliographies on Winston S. Churchill 15

2. General Bibliographies 17

3. Bibliographies on Prominent Persons 19

B. Guides and Indexes 19

1. Introductory Guides 19

2. Guides to Politics 20

3. Indexes 20

C. Encyclopedias and Biographical Dictionaries 21

1. Encyclopedias 21

2. Biographical and Historical Dictionaries 21

3. Oxford Companions 22

D. Journals and Periodicals 22

E. Other Reference Publications 23

1. Official Histories 23

2. General Histories, Surveys, and Textbooks 24

3. Political and Military Histories of Great Britain 26

4. Specialized Newsletters 26

F. Winston S. Churchill on the Internet 27

Chapter 4 Winston S. Churchill, Journalist, Author, and Historian 28

A. Surveys of the Writings of Winston S. Churchill 28

1. Winston S. Churchill as Writer 28

2. The Nobel Prize for Literature 30

3. "Young Winston" 31

4. Winston Churchill as Soldier 32

5. Winston Churchill as Journalist and War Correspondent 32

6. Winston Churchill as Young Politician 33

7. India 34

8. Cuba 34

9. The Sudan 34

10. South Africa 36

11. Other Editions of the Early Writings 38

B. The Biographies 39

1. Lord Randolph Churchill 39

2. Marlborough 39

C. The Histories 41

1. The World Crisis 41

2. The Second World War 42

3. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples 43

D. Other Writings of Winston S. Churchill 43

1. Savrola 43

2. My Early Life or A Roving Commission 44

3. Great Contemporaries 44

4. Thoughts and Adventures or Amid These Storms 45

5. Other Writings 45

E. Winston S. Churchill as Speechmaker 46

1. Speechmaker 46

2. Published Speeches 47

Chapter 5 Winston S. Churchill, Subject of Biographies 48

A. The Official Biography 49

1. Winston S. Churchill, 1874-1965 49

B. Other Biographies 51

1. The Earliest Biographies 52

2. Later Biographies: A Spectrum 52

3. Biographies as Contributions to a Series 58

4. Biographies with Special Effects 59

5. Biographies for Young People 60

6. Undistinguished Biographies 60

7. Biographies in Foreign Languages and in Translations 61

8. Unfinished Biographies or for Limited Times 61

Chapter 6 Winston S. Churchill and World War I 64

A. World War I 64

1. The Origins of the Great War 64

2. The German Navy 67

3. Invasion Scares 68

4. The Agadir Crisis of 1911 69

5. Histories of World War I 70

6. The Social and Domestic Impact of World War I 71

7. The Blockade of the Central Powers 72

8. Social and Economic Planning 72

9. Early Naval Battles 73

10. The Loss of the LUSITANIA 74

11. The Battle of Jutland 75

12. War on the Western Front 76

13. The Balkans and the Ottoman Empire 77

14. Peacemaking 78

Chapter 7 Winston S. Churchill and World War II 80

A. World War II 80

1. The Origins of World War II 80

2. Appeasement and the Munich Conference 81

3. Histories of World War II 85

4. The Fall of France and the Vichy Regime 86

5. Hitler's War, Churchill's War 89

6. The "Myth" of a Negotiated Settlement 90

7. The Case of Rudolph Hess 90

8. Combined Operations Headquarters 91

9. The Evacuation of Dunkirk 92

10. Operasion Sea Lion 92

11. The Dieppe Raid 92

12. The Allied Invasion of North Africa 94

13. The Allied Invasions of Sicily and Italy 94

14. D-Day, the Normandy Invasion 95

15. Final Land Operations in Europe 96

16. The Social and Domestic Impact of World War II 97

17. The End of the War 97

B. The Air War 98

2. The Allied Strategic Bombing Campaign 99

3. The Tactical Air Campaign 100

C. The Naval War 101

2. Surface Ship Actions 102

3. Operations in the Mediterranean Sea 103

4. The Battle of the Atlantic 104

D. The War in the Pacific 106

2. British Commitments in the Far East 107

3. British Commitments to Australia and New Zealand 108

4. Pearl Harbor 109

5. The Burma Campaign 110

6. Task Force 57 111

E. Eastern Europe and the Balkans 112

1. The Question of Poland 112

2. The Question of the Balkans and Greece 113

F. The Big Three and the Summit Conferences 115

1. The Grand Alliance 115

2. The Summit Conferences, General Observations 116

3. The Summit Conferences, Delineated 117

a. Plancentia Bay, August 1941 117

b. Washington, December 1941-January 1942 118

c. Moscow, August 1942 118

d. Casablanca, January 1943 118

e. Washington, May 1943 118

f. Quebec, August 1943 118

g. Cairo I & II, November-December 1943 119

h. Teheran, November-December 1943 119

i. Quebec, September 1944 119

j. Moscow, October 1944 119

k. Yalta, February 1945 120

l. Potsdam, July-August 1945 120

Chapter 8 Winston S. Churchill and the Cold War 122

A. The Cold War 122

1. The Debate over the Cold War 122

2. The "Iron Curtain" Speech 123

3. The Origins of the Cold War 123

5. Britain and the Cold War 125

6. The United States and the Cold War 126

7. Russia and the Cold War 127

8. Europe and the Cold War 127

B. The Korean War 128

Chapter 9 Winston S. Churchill, Strategy, Command, and Intelligence 129

A. Strategy 129

1. Theories of Strategy 129

2. Modern Strategy 131

3. Winston S. Churchill and Strategy 131

4. The Grand Strategy of World War II 134

B. Command 135

C. Intelligence 136

2. ULTRA, MAGIC, and XX 138

3. Intelligence and Diplomacy 140

4. Winston S. Churchill and Intelligence 141

5. Intelligence in Great Britain 143

6. Intelligence Institutions and Personalities 143

7. Cooperative Exchanges of Intelligence 145

8. Intelligence in the Far East 146

9. Intelligence and Deception 147

10. German Intelligence 148

11. Postwar Intelligence 148

Chapter 10 Winston S. Churchill, Cabinet Minister 149

A. The Cabinet 149

B. The Board of Trade and the Home Office 149

C. The Admiralty 150

2. Historians of the Royal Navy 150

3. The Organization of the Admiralty 154

4. Winston S. Churchill at the Admiralty 155

5. The Matter of Oil 157

6. The Lower Deck 158

7. The War Staff 159

8. Science and Technology 160

D. Winston S. Churchill and Naval Leaders 162

1. First Sea Lords 162

a. John Fisher 162

b. Prince Louis of Battenberg 165

c. John Jellicoe 165

d. David Beatty 166

e. Ernle Chatfield 167

f. Dudley Pound 167

g. A.B.

Cunningham 167

h. Lord Louis Mountbatten 168

2. Other Naval Leaders 168

a. Charles Beresford 168

b. Roger Keyes 169

c. Dudley North 169

d. James Somerville 169

E. The War Office 170

2. Chiefs of Staff 170

F. Winston S. Churchill and Military Leaders 171

1. Generals and Others 171

a. Horatio Herbert Kitchener 171

b. Bernard Montgomery 171

c. Alanbrooke 172

d. John Dill 173

e. Harold Alexander 173

f. Archibald Wavell 174

g. Claude Auchinleck 174

h. Edmond Ironside 174

i. Hastings Ismay 174

j. John Kennedy 175

k. Henry Pownell 175

l. William Slim 175

m. Ian Hamilton 175

n. William Robertson 175

o. Henry Wilson 176

p. Reginald Viscount Esher 176

q. Maurice Hankey 176

r. Dwight D. Eisenhower 176

s. Erwin Rommel 177

G. The Air Ministry 177

H. The Colonial Office 179

I. Chancellor of the Exchequer 179

J. Prime Minister and Minister of Defence 181

K. Other Cabinet Offices 182

1. Minister of Munitions 182

2. Winston S. Churchill and Europe 182

Chapter 11 Winston S. Churchill, Politician and Political Parties 185

A. Politician 185

B. Conservatism 187

C. The Conservative Party 188

1. The History of the Conservative Party 188

D. The Liberal Party 190

E. The Labor Party 191

F. Chronology: Winston S. Churchill and Party Politics 192

1. 1895-1914, the Edwardian Age 192

2. 1914-1938 195

3. 1939-1951 196

4. 1951-1955 197

G. Coalitions 198

H. Political Associations 199

Chapter 12 Winston S. Churchill and Other Leaders 203

A. Monarchs of Great Britain 203

1. Winston S. Churchill and the Monarchy 203

2. King Edward VII 204

3. King George V 204

4. King Edward VIII 204

5. King George VI 204

6. Queen Elizabeth II 205

B. Franklin D. Roosevelt 205

C. Harry S Truman 206

D. Joseph Stalin 206

E. Charles de Gaulle 207

F. Hitler and Mussolini 208

G. Others 209

1. Prime Ministers 209

a. Lord Salisbury 209

b. Arthur James Balfour 209

c. Henry Campbell-Bannerman 210

d. Herbert Henry Asquith 210

e. David Lloyd George 212

f. Bonar Law 214

g. Ramsay MacDonald 214

h. Stanley Baldwin 214

i. Neville Chamberlain 215

j. Winston S. Churchill 216

k. Clement Attlee 216

l. Anthony Eden 217

2. Cabinet Associates and Colleagues 218

a. Leopold Amery 218

b. Ernest Bevin 218

c. Austen Chamberlain 218

d. Joseph Chamberlain 219

e. Duff Cooper 219

f. Stafford Cripps 220

g. George Curzon 220

h. Hugh Dalton 220

i. Lord Elgin 221

j. Edward Grey 221

k. Richard Burton Haldane 221

l. Edward F.L. Wood, Lord Halifax 222

m. Samuel Hoare 222

n. Leslie Hore-Belisha 222

o. Oliver Lyttelton, Viscount Chandos 223

p. Reginald McKenna 223

q. Harold Macmillan 223

r. Eric Geddes 224

s. Enoch Powell 224

t. Harold Nicolson 224

3. Private Secretaries 224

4. The "Notorious Bs" 225

a. F.E. Smith, Earl of Birkenhead 225

b. Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook 225

c. Brendan Bracken 226

d. Robert Boothby 227

5. More "Churchillians" and the Inner Circle 227

a. F.A. Lindemann, Viscount Cherwell 228

b. Desmond Morton 229

c. T.E. Lawrence 229

d. William Deakin 230

e. John Wheeler-Bennett 230

f. Robert Bruce Lockhart 231

g. Edward Spears 231

h. Alexander Cadogan 231

i. Robert Cecil 231

j. Ian Jacob 232

6. Associates in the British Commonwealth 232

a. Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook 232

b. Robert G. Menzies 232

c. S.M. Bruce 232

d. Jan Christiaan Smuts 233

7. American Friends 233

a. Bourke Cockran 233

b. Bernard Baruch 233

c. Ethel Barrymore 233

8. Other Friends 233

a. Emery and Wendy Reves 233

b. Christine Lewis Conover 234

c. Colin R. Coote 234

d. Nancy Astor 234

e. Aristotle Onassis 234

f. A.P. Herbert 235

g. Marthe Bibesco 235

9. The Staff 235

Chapter 13 Winston S. Churchill and the Major Controversies 236

A. The Dardanelles or Gallipoli Campaign 236

B. The Allied Intervention in Russia 239

C. Bolshevism, Communism, and Socialism 240

D. Ireland 241

E. Return to the Gold Standard 244

F. The Middle East 245

G. India 249

H. The General Strike of 1926 250

I. The Singapore-Main Fleet Strategy 252

J. The Norwegian Campaign 254

K. The Second Front 256

L. Unconditional Surrender 257

M. The Disposition of Germany 258

N. The Welfare State 259

O. Health and When to Retire 261

Chapter 14 Winston S. Churchill and the Special Relationship 264

B. The Making of the Anglo-American Alliance 265

C. Winston S. Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt 268

D. Personalities 270

1. Joseph Kennedy 270

2. Harry Hopkins 270

3. George C. Marshall 270

4. Averell Harriman 271

5. Dean Acheson 271

E. Lend-Lease and American Aid 271

F. Scientific Exchange and Nuclear Development 273

Chapter 15 Winston S. Churchill, Imperialism, Decolonization, and Decline 275

A. Imperialism 275

1. The British Empire 275

2. The Great Game 276

B. Decolonization 277

1. The Unmaking of Empire 277

2. The Role of Winston S. Churchill 278

3. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the United States 278

C. Decline 279

Chapter 16 Winston S. Churchill, Anthologies and Media 282

A. Anthologies 282

B. Fiction 284

C. Media 286

1. Films and Documentaries 286

2. Recordings 286

Chapter 17 Winston S. Churchill and Art 287

A. As Painter 287

B. In Paintings and Photographs 287

C. In Cartoons 288

Chapter 18 Winston S. Churchill in History: Assessments 289

A. General Surveys 289

1. Winston S. Churchill and the Historians 289

2. Historiographical Surveys about Winston S. Churchill 291

B. Assessments 292

1. Praise 293

2. Character 294

3. "Churchilliana" and Memorabilia 294

4. Stamps and Medals 295

5. Recognition 296

a. Honors 296

b. 70th Birthday, November 1944 297

c. 80th Birthday, November 1954 297

d. 90th Birthday, November 1964 297

e. State Funeral and Commemorations, January 1965 297

f. Centenary, November 1974 298

6. "Greatest Living Englishman" (GLE) 298

7. Tributes 299

8. Memorials 300

9. Myth 301

10. War Leader 301

11. Peacemaker 302

12. Statesmanship and Leadership 302

13. Critical Judgments 304

Chapter 19 Winston S. Churchill, the Family, Head of Household, and Residences 305

A. The Churchill Dynasty 305

B. Clementine Churchill 305

1. Clementine 305

2. Clementine and Churchill 306

C. Children and Grandchildren 306

1. Randolph Churchill 306

2. Sarah Churchill 307

3. Mary Churchill, Lady Soames 307

4. Winston S. Churchill, the Grandson 308

5. Celia Sandys 308

D. Other Family Members 308

1. Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill and Family 308

2. John Spencer Churchill 309

E. Chartwell 309

F. Churchill Sites and Other Residences 310

1. Blenheim Palace 310

2. Admiralty House 310

3. 11 Downing Street 310

4. 10 Downing Street 310

5. Chequers 310

6. London Residences 310

7. Bladon Church 311

Chapter 20 Winston S. Churchill and Areas for Future Research 312

A. Areas for Future Research 312

1. Purpose-Studies 312

a. Winston S. Churchill and the Conservative Party 312

b. Winston S. Churchill, Women's Suffrage, and Feminism 313

c. Winston S. Churchill and India 313

d. Winston S. Churchill and Zionism 313

e. Winston S. Churchill and the Spain of Francisco Franco 313

f. Winston S. Churchill and International Organizations 314

g. Winston S. Churchill and His Health 314

h. Winston S. Churchill and Foreign Countries 314

i. Winston S. Churchill and Devolution 314.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0313305463

OCLC:

43919640