{"id":460,"date":"2015-09-22T15:23:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T15:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulcoolbooks.com\/?p=460"},"modified":"2015-09-22T15:23:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T15:23:30","slug":"how-many-books-did-winston-churchill-write-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulcoolbooks.com\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"How Many Books Did Winston Churchill Write – Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Winston Churchill was a busy man. He gallivanted around the British Empire as both British cavalry officer and, simultaneously, war correspondent, sat over the course of seven decades in Parliament, holding virtually every cabinet post in the British government, from First Lord of the Admiralty to Prime Minister (twice), and saved the world from Hitler in a way no other person on the planet could have done. He wooed prospective brides, downed mass quantities of champagne, painted hundreds of canvasses, \u00a0smoked uncounted big cigars, and flew three-quarters of the way to the moon (well, its equivalent, by air, to direct the British war effort and negotiate with FDR and Stalin). He also wrote. By one account, he \u201cproduced thirty-three titles in fifty-one volumes. [They] consist of eighteen collections of speeches, one of newspaper articles, four of war dispatches, two of essays and character portraits, one novel, one travel book, two biographies, one autobiography, two world war memoirs, and one history of a people.\u201d That\u2019s not to mention an estimated 500 articles and hundreds of uncollected speeches and papers. Eight-to-nine million words, all told. \u00a0(from Sword and Pen: A Survey of the Writings of Sir Winston Churchill<\/em> by Mannfred Weidhorn.)<\/p>\n

33 books in 51 volumes. Or was it 38 books? 43? In 58 volumes, 72, or 73?\u00a0 The authorities on Churchill don\u2019t agree. But we\u2019re here to find out. In the last column, I listed 19 books in 29 volumes, assuming you count Parts I and II of The World Crisis<\/em>, Volume III as two volumes on your shelf.\u00a0 Let\u2019s pick up where we left off, with his 20th<\/sup> book.<\/p>\n

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  1. Into Battle<\/em> (titled Blood, Sweat and Tears<\/em> in the US) (1941) \u2013 This speech collection includes some of his most enduring phrases (e.g., \u201cThis was their finest hour.\u201d \u201cNever was so much owed by so many to so few.\u201d)<\/li>\n
  2. The Unrelenting Struggle<\/em> (1942) \u2013 speeches given in 1941<\/li>\n
  3. The End of the Beginning<\/em> (1943) \u2013 speeches given in 1942<\/li>\n
  4. Onwards to Victory<\/em> (1944) \u2013 speeches given in 1943<\/li>\n
  5. The Dawn of Liberation<\/em> (1945) \u2013 1944 speeches<\/li>\n
  6. Victory<\/em> (1946) \u2013 last of the war speeches<\/li>\n
  7. Secret Session Speeches<\/em> (1946) \u2013 5 speeches presented in closed sessions of Parliament<\/li>\n
  8. The Second World War<\/em> (1948-1953) (6 volumes) \u2013 World War II from Churchill\u2019s perspective. \u201cThis is not history;\u201d he wrote, \u201cthis is my case. The one and only memoir of the war by a head of state. Published before most other participants got their memoirs out, he managed to steer the discussion for decades to come. Self-serving in many spots, but always revealing.<\/li>\n
  9. The Sinews of Peace<\/em> (1949) \u2013 Kicked out of office by voters, Churchill returns to the stump, delivering more warnings, including the \u201cIron Curtain\u201d speech that helped America to understand the threat posed by the Soviet Union.<\/li>\n
  10. Europe Unite<\/em> (1950) \u2013 Speeches on this theme.<\/li>\n
  11. In the Balance<\/em> (1952) \u2013 More speeches<\/li>\n
  12. Stemming the Tide<\/em> (1954) \u2013 Speeches by Churchill, back in office as Prime Minister<\/li>\n
  13. The Unwritten Alliance<\/em> (1961) Winston\u2019s last volume of speeches. Title refers to the Anglo-American bond, but book published only in the UK.<\/li>\n
  14. A History of the English Speaking Peoples<\/em> (1956-1958) (4 volumes) \u2013 Churchill was nearly done with this popular history, but then the Second World War began. He picked it up after exiting #10 Downing Street the second time, and, with a team to help this octogenarian, polished it off. Limited in what it covers \u2013 mostly politics, war and the great deeds of great men and women in Great Britain and the US. A more fitting title, tweaked Labour Party Prime Minister Clement Attlee, was \u201cThings in history that interested me.\u201d And we\u2019re better off for it. Not totally reliable, but a smashing good read, written in Churchill\u2019s usual conversational style.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    OK, 14 books in this post, plus 19 in the last one. That\u2019s 33 books in 51 volumes. Actually, just 33 volumes if you get the one-volume abridgements of all his multi-volume works. But is that it, or isn\u2019t it? How do we get to 38 books or 43? See Part III.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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