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26 Jan 2022: Government and Civil Service reaction to Churchill's interventions on rearmament. Maurice Hankey discusses the "Winston problem", March 1937.

2 Feb 2022: Churchill was jubilant, remarking when he heard the news of Pearl Harbor: “So we have won after all!”.

11 Feb 2022: When he was writing "The World Crisis", Churchill asked Haig to comment on the drafts of the chapter dealing with the events of 1917-18.

26 Jan 2022: Lindemann clashes with the Air Defence Research Committee. Letter from Professor Sir Henry Tizard to Professor Lindemann, 18 June 1936.

25 Jan 2022: Churchill warns of German rearmament. Extracts from text of Churchill's speech in the House of Commons, 19 March 1935.

27 Jan 2022: In Oct 1938, shortly after the Munich crisis, Churchill received this letter from a leading Liberal politician asking about military strength.

26 Jan 2022: Churchill looks back at the death in 1936 of Ralph Wigram, one of Churchill's most important sources of information from within Whitehall.

28 Jan 2022: Some on the left distrust Churchill's motives for his stand against appeasement, G F Hudson writes to Patrick Gordon-Walker.

11 Feb 2022: Haig and his critics: compare a memo by Lord French to the War Cabinet in 1917 and Maurice Hankey’s diary entries from 1917-1918.

14 Feb 2022: Challenge the view of Churchill in the 1930s as a “Great Man”, and consider the political figures Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain.