{"id":16601,"date":"2020-04-02T20:17:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T03:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/?p=16601"},"modified":"2020-06-05T08:04:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T15:04:56","slug":"churchill-up-close-and-very-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/churchill-up-close-and-very-personal\/","title":{"rendered":"Churchill: Up Close and VERY Personal \u2014 As YOU Have Never Read Before"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>(As If You Were His Personal, Very Private Secretary)<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16603\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Splendid-the-Vile.jpg\" alt=\"The Splendid and the Vile book cover\" width=\"500\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Splendid-the-Vile.jpg 500w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Splendid-the-Vile-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>So, how are YOU doing as you read this article, probably \u201cimprisoned\u201d in your home because of the Covid 19 medical disaster? Turns out that more and more people are reading books, for gosh sakes, to pass away the seemingly no-end-in-sight Covid 19 saga. Reading a good book is so much more rewarding than watching an aspect of social media, or video game adventure.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a confirmed Bibliophile \u2014 who reads about 57 or more books every year. Always have, always will. Let me give you two intriguing books to consider. One this month and, in May, a truly remarkable tome about Field Marshall Rommel, and why you should consider buying both the Churchill and Rommel books.<\/p>\n<p>First up, a book about Winston Churchill and WW2 called <em>THE SPLENDID and the VILE by Erik Larson<\/em>. Coming in at nearly 600 pages it\u2019s a MUST READ. You might wonder, as I did, how anyone, anywhere, could still come up with newsy, interesting, and compelling facts in the early 1940s, about this sixtyish, robust, cigar chomping thoroughly British icon that saved Britain in WW2. Literally hundreds of books have been penned, typed, and computerized about him, so why buy any new one?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16605\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Winston-Churchill.jpg\" alt=\"Winston Churchill\" width=\"540\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Winston-Churchill.jpg 540w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Winston-Churchill-286x300.jpg 286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/>Simply because<em> THE SPLENDID and the VILE <\/em>by Erik Larson illustrates, in an exceptional and distinctive way, the exhilarating saga of British courage against all odds; and Churchill\u2019s magnetic personality that endeared him to the crowds wherever he went \u2014 so much so <em>(and I recall this personally as a boy growing up in London)<\/em> people saying \u201cGood old Winnie will fix it.\u201d As such, this book was almost impossible to put down. It is written as if you are there with him, right by his side (with your still not invented) tape recorder, as you become mesmerized by his ideas that poured out in a sort of \u201cWhy didn\u2019t\u00a0 I think of that?\u201d feeling. Winston Churchill, as he comes across in this stimulating and captivating book, is truly the epitome of the word UNIQUE.<\/p>\n<p>One of his closest confidants was the colorful, deeply loyal individual John Colville. He was Churchill\u2019s private secretary during the most critical, scary and in a time of &#8220;near-to-an-actual-invasion-by-the-Germans\u201d Britain ever came. Colville wanted, desperately, to sign up and join the RAF, but Winston kept refusing.\u00a0 Another man who constantly resigned \u2014 or attempted to \u2014 but was equally <em>constantly<\/em> refused by Churchill, as this book so cleverly details, was the Canadian businessman Max Aitken, more commonly known as Lord Beaverbrook, who was placed in total charge of mandating that more Hurricane and Spitfire fighters for the RAF would be, indeed MUST be, built faster than anyone thought possible.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16606\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Churchill-2.jpg\" alt=\"Winston Churchill\" width=\"480\" height=\"693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Churchill-2.jpg 480w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Churchill-2-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/>Churchill consistently refused Beaverbrook\u2019s increasingly impassioned requests to depart the government and, in the end, he did resign \u2014 but he missed, dreadfully \u2014 his previous regular back and forth with Churchill. The book also shows \u2014 <em>more so than any book I&#8217;ve read on this subject<\/em> \u2014 how Churchill taught the British public to be totally fearless.<\/p>\n<p>The book is additionally spellbinding, as author Larson was able to secure access to German\/Nazi information about WW2 secret Nazi facts \u2014 never before available \u2014 from German libraries, secret archives, and government resources regarding WW2 from the German\/Nazi point of view. There is also an underlying theme to the entire book that I found mesmerizing: It was Churchill\u2019s overriding mission, his main objective, his passion, to somehow find a way to get America \u2014 and its vast resources \u2014 actively into the war \u2014 for Churchill knew that Britain could not do it by itself. Here is a book you need read.<\/p>\n<p>Contact John: <a href=\"mailto:jd******@***il.com\" data-original-string=\"p5kq4XbCssOCKXiIDrT6NA==8d4+tqdpLa8+hxQ9CQIRjTNznVlR2VHebEiuOdZ1NNk40s=\" title=\"This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.\"><span \n                data-original-string='R6q\/MO017C2fogUqsxEkBA==8d4vmb1bjXBqjukOF4jb\/MRwOOwJyGAzmGCoOZlzVZ\/PdI='\n                class='apbct-email-encoder'\n                title='This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.'>jd<span class=\"apbct-blur\">******<\/span>@<span class=\"apbct-blur\">***<\/span>il.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me give you two intriguing books to consider. One this month and, in May, a truly remarkable tome about Field Marshall Rommel, and why you should consider buying both the Churchill and Rommel books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":16605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1186],"tags":[805,3510,937,3512,3509,3511,247,2655],"class_list":["post-16601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-review","tag-book-review","tag-erik-larson","tag-great-britain","tag-lord-beaverbrook","tag-the-splendid-and-the-vile","tag-winston-churchill","tag-world-war-2","tag-ww2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Churchill: Up Close and VERY Personal: Traveling Boy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In the book &#039;The Splendid and the Vile,&#039; Erik Larson 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