Churchill the Writer: A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (Book 9) 12-09-22

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🗓️ 9 December 2022

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Churchill the Writer: A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (Books 9 & 10) 12-09-22

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1:49.6	or one of his colleagues, about matters large and enduring, and we have for the last eight weeks,
1:54.9	this is week nine, been reading through Winston Churchill's The History of the English Speaking
2:00.3	People, published first in 1956, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is a breathtaking,
2:08.7	wonderful work that I can take off the shelf every few years, and we come to book nine, Napoleon.
2:15.1	My first large question to Dr. Arn is probably the leading American scholar of Churchill and maybe
2:20.7	in the world. Andrew Roberts made me rethink my very negative view of Napoleon, so it's only 90%
2:27.4	negative now, because of Caesarism. What is Churchill at the end when you've read everything as you
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