Your best read in 2014

[Thomas Thorne]

(01-05-2015 05:09 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Tom, have you checked out this site?
http://lincolnandchurchill.org/

Thanks for all your replies!

Many thanks for the link to the site. I discovered a risque Churchill story which is a first for me.

In Churchill's last book,"A History of the English Speaking Peoples",which one of his friends insisted should have been titled "Things in History Which Interest Me", the great man devoted a section to our Civil War.

He criticized Lincoln for firing his generals for losing one battle and accepted the bogus quote in which Lee said McClellan was his most formidable opponent.

As Churchill constantly lashed his generals for not being aggressive enough-"they always have an excuse for doing nothing"-and McClellan increasingly challenged Lincoln on political grounds,Little Mac would not have lasted 5 minutes with Churchill. I wonder where people like Halleck and Burnside would have been exiled to.

The idea that RE Lee respected McClellan is belied by Lee's audacious splitting of his army at the Seven Days and having the Potomac in his rear at Antietam.
Tom