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Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations Hardcover – October 28, 2008

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Never give in!” Winston Churchill is famous for admonishing: This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never.” What most people don't know is that when he said this he was addressing not a nation facing the threat of invasion, but a roomful of schoolboys at his old school. A powerful, persuasive speaker and notorious wit, Churchill is one of the twentieth century's most oft-quoted leadersand one frequently misquoted or quoted out of context. Yet his actual remarks were often much wiser and wittier than reported. Churchill By Himself is the first exhaustive, attributed, and annotated collection of Churchill sayings. Edited by a longtime Churchill scholar and authorized by the Churchill estate, the quotations provide the first wholly accurate record of the esteemed statesman's words.

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Richard Langworth is the author of A Connoisseur's Guide to the Books of Winston Churchill and the editor of Finest Hour, the journal of Winston Churchill. He served as president of The Churchill Centre from 1990-99 and has been co-chairman of its Board of Trustees since 2000. A writer of forty books on Churchill and automotive history, he splits his time between Eleuthera, Bahamas, and New Hampshire.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ PublicAffairs
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 28, 2008
Edition ‏ : ‎ First Edition
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 627 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1586486381
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1586486389
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.3 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.75 x 2 x 9.75 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #1,114,727 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Richard Langworth (https://richardlangworth.com/), a writer and historian, has produced twelve books on Winston Churchill and 60 books on automotive history. Since 2014 Mr. Langworth has been Senior Fellow for the Hillsdale College Churchill Project, an endowed, permanent center of Churchill Studies in North America. In 1968 Langworth founded "Finest Hour," a Churchill journal which he edited for 35 years, producing 150 issues. His 1000Churchill articles have appeared in "The American Spectator," "Weekly Standard," "National Review," "Commentary," "American Thinker," "Daily Caller" and "Washington Times." In 1998, he was appointed by HM The Queen as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to Anglo-American relations and the memory of Sir Winston Churchill.

In 2019, Hillsdale completes the final volume of Churchill’s official biography, 31 volumes in all, which began 56 years ago. Hillsdale also houses the Martin Gilbert Papers and sponsors Churchill seminars, publications, tours and online courses. It is the future home of Langworth's and others' Churchill archives, and is developing a digital index-resource to 100 million words by and about Churchill. Read more at winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu.

Richard Langworth published the first edition in volume form of Churchill's "The Dream" (1987) and the first American edition of Churchill’s "India" (1990). He is author or editor of "A Connoisseur’s Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill" (1998), "Churchill by Himself" (2008, Kindle 2015), "The Definitive Wit of Winston Churchill" (2009), "The Patriot’s Churchill" (2010), "All Will Be Well: Good Advice from Winston Churchill" (2011), "Churchill in His Own Words" (2012), "Churchill and the Avoidable War" (2015) and "Winston Churchill: Myth and Reality" (2016). His next book is an expanded edition of "Churchill by Himself," with 500 new quotations and a comprehensive index.

Richard and Barbara Langworth have hosted eleven Churchill and eight automotive tours in England, Scotland, France and Australia (1983-2008) and were Churchill specialist booksellers (1984-2004). In 2019 Langworth lectures at Hillsdale on March 24-28 and the Hillsdale College cruise around Britain June 1-15.

Langworth wrote his first automotive article in 1969. He was associate and senior editor of "Automobile Quarterly" (1970-75); and editor of "The Vintage Triumph" (1974-77), "The Packard Cormorant" (1975-2001), "Car Classics" (1976), and "Automotive Investor" (1988-90). He has written 2000 articles on automotive history; his books include "Kaiser-Frazer: Last Onslaught on Detroit," "Triumph Cars," "The Studebaker Century," "The Encyclopedia of American Cars," "GM: 100 Years," and "Packard: A History of the Motorcar and the Company."

Richard Langworth is a graduate of Wagner College and a veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard. He resides in Moultonborough, New Hampshire and Eleuthera, Bahamas.

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Customers find this book to be a thorough collection of Churchill's quotes, with one review noting its comprehensive organization by topics and dates. Moreover, they appreciate the writing quality, with one customer describing it as a superb piece of research and writing. Additionally, the book receives positive feedback for its humor and wisdom, with one customer mentioning it's enjoyed by the entire family.

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Jerry Saperstein
A huge, wonderful collection of Chuchill quotes
Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2008
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Winston Churchill is one of the few men whose name stands a good chance of being spoken by men as long as freedom exists. At 66, Churchill was called upon to rally a nation, an empire, teetering on the abyss of defeat.

And Churchill rallied his nation, his empire and the free world with his words.

A gifted orator and writer, Churchill authored 15 million published words. In this book are collected about 350,000 of Churchill's words in 4,120 quotations.

The editor, Richard Langworth, has done extensive research to validate the words as Churchill's own. It turns out that many follow the maxim of attributing words to Churchill that he had nothing to do with.

Churchill spent 50 years in public life. He was a soldier, journalist, Member of Commons, Lord of the Admiralty, member of the opposition, Prime Minister, world renowned author and more.

I've been an admirer of Churchill all my life. Many of the quotations are familiar to me. Yet, as they are categorized here, they take on a new life, a new perspecive.

Langworth begins with "The Immortal Words", the words of Churchill that will live forever in the memories of free men everywhere. The pity is that these words are rarely taught in American public schools. We will lose what we do not cherish and this means both the words of Churchill and our freedom.

Langworth progresses through Maxims, Churchillisms ("I have nothing ot offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat"), 34 sections in all that allow the reader to sense the full of Churchill and his words.

This is as remarkable book not only for Churchill admirers and students, but for those who revel in the beauty of the English language.

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Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2021
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There are many collections of Churchill quotes and anecdotes but none have the completeness, authoritativeness and pedigree of this one. Fully authorised by the Churchill estate, it also boasts a foreword by Lady Mary Soames (Churchill's youngest daughter) and an introduction by Sir Martin Gilbert (Churchill's official biographer).

This is an impressive piece of scholarship. Every entry is documented and many are annotated. And what entries they are! In each one of the thirty-four sections, one will find humour, wit, wisdom and inspiration, showing Churchill's statesmanship and mastery of the English language. This is a wonderful compilation to which one will return often.

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Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2008
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Richard Langworth has hit another grand slam with his new book, Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations. This is an extraordinary work of scholarship that documents what Churchill said and didn't say. Like his previous work, A Connoisseur's Guide to the Books of Winston Churchill (unfortunately I lost mine in Katrina), Richard's meticulous attention to detail sheds pure white light on Churchill's quotations. It's about time someone cleared the air! The Bible, Shakespeare, Churchill, and perhaps Mark Twain with a dash of Teddy Roosevelt make up the lion's share of quotations used by business people and governmental speech makers. I'm no longer surprised how many quotations are attributed to Churchill which he never said or would have said. Now we can all get ground truth thanks to Richard Langworth.

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Johann W. Bodensteiner
Fine book. Author allows quotes to stand on their ...
Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2016
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Fine book. Author allows quotes to stand on their own, only organizing them chronologically or by topic (depending on what made sense per chapter) with light background where needed.

Being relatively new to Churchill, I wished I had a bit more of the author's perspective (but the author clearly states his purpose in the title and forward), and that the quotes were longer to provide more color.

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Churchill by Himself
Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2011
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(This was book was a gift to my husband, who wrote the following review.)

I've long been a fan of Winston Churchill's mannered eloquence which, unfortunately, was ignored by his countrymen in the late 30s, but which roused them during World War II. This book outdoes all other books of Churchill quotes. It is broken into topics ("Germany", "World War I", "Science and Medicine", "Ripostes", etc.). Like many books of this sort - a compendium, rather than a structured narrative - one can dip into this at any point at any time, or if so disposed, just read it from front to back.

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C. Loomis
All of Churchill's wit
Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2009
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This is the type of book you'll enjoy if you are a big Winston fan since it is simply as collection of his quotes on nearly every subject/person imaginable. a little dry and tedious perhaps and unless you love Churchill it will bore you. But I enjoyed hearing his words on many things relating to WWII. Such a fascinating man.

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Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2011
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It is no surprise that the content is deeply satisfying;Churchill's charming wit and inspiring character are legendary.The editor's skill in discussing the context of the entries adds a great deal of value to both the famous remarks and those that are more obscure.As a Churchill enthusiast, it was easy for me to be excited and satisfied by the comprehensive catalogue of Churchill's work and by the first class scholarship of Mr. Langworth.A pleasant discovery, however, was the spectacular reaction I got each time I gave the book as a gift.

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Fantastic and timely
Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2009
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What an amazing book! Churchill's analysis is spot on, and in hindsight we see clearly how brilliant he was. If only our legislators were interested - there is plenty of advice for them in dealing with today's issues. This is a must read tome for those who want the full flavor of the events and consequences of WWII. The print is small, but well worth the effort.

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Churchill fut un grand homme d'état, doté d'un sens de l'humour décapant et décalé . Pour ceux qui apprécient l'humour anglais.

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Alles hat gepaßt wie angekündigt. Alles wunderbar liebevoll verpackt und sogar mit einem Zeitungsartikel versehen, der von einem Vorbesitzer des Buches stammen muss. Ich bin sehr dankbar über dieses Buch

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