The Second World War
by Winston S. Churchill · first published 1941
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Never before in history have there been combined in one man the character, the political leadership, the military perception and the eloquence which our generation has known in Winston Churchill. It is no wonder that when it was announced that he would write the history of the Second World War, there arose throughout the world an interest and excitement caused by no other publication of this century. The six volumes of The Second World War fulfilled the highest expectations with which they were awaited. But the great length of the work and its necessary cost has prevented many thousands from r
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Churchill's Second World War books are an incredibly easy read for how information dense they are, as is his "History Of the English Speaking People."
on “Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print” ↗Eh yes. Soviet Russia was a founding member of the UN. An excellent understanding of the UN is in Churchill's "THE SECOND WORLD WAR" books.
on “How China brainwashed American POWs using a classic sales technique” ↗What evidence? Learn history! Churchill's "the Second World War" might be a good place to start.
on “The Man Who Writes His Dissenting Opinion in All Caps” ↗Hmmm, Churchill's "greatest" histories, The World Crisis (WWI) and The Second World War, which I've recently started re-reading (or at least The Gathering Storm, the first volume of the interim period ending with him being selected as PM as the Nazis descended upon the Low Countries and…
on “Thucydides Roundtable, Book IV: History Is Written by the Losers” ↗…surroundings. That's all well and good, but the story really ties it all together. For example, I like WW2 audiobooks to fall asleep at night. "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William Shirer or "The Second World War" by Sir Winston Churchill are pretty standard, but then you listen to "Barbarossa - Hitler’s Fatal Gamble" by Jonathan Dimbleby and notice a big improvement in the story telling that holds your interest.…
on “You just gotta tell a good story” ↗I can barely find time to read 3-4 pages of a novel before I pass out before bed. I look at volumes like this, Churchill's The Second World War, Summa Theologica, and wonder if I could ever get through these things in my lifetime.
on “Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print” ↗…and history: Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall From the ruins of Empire, Pankay Mishra (best read of the year) Capitalism: A short history, Jürgen Kocka The Great Transformation, Karl Polanyi The Second World War, Churchill Not from this year but still resonating: Postmodern Imperialism, Eric Walberg (should not be read uncritically) The Rich don't always win, Sam Pizzigati
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2016?” ↗…and collect the material needed to write his history. Even winning historians need time in defeat to write their histories—had Churchill’s party not been kicked out of power by British voters after the Second World War was over, Churchill’s famous account of that war would never have been written. > When high position is stolen from you, and access to the heights of wealth and power denied, there is little one can…