In Reply to: Re: The Gathering Storm. posted by Ears on October 3, 2003 at 14:34:04:
But Churchill played an older man than he really was.
Listen to the way he delivers his speeches from that era, you would think hes a septegenarian the way he paces his words, look at his posture and the way he dressed
Photographs showed him slumped in a chair like an old sack of potatoes that totally belies the fact he was still a powerhouse
Churchill had greatest thrust on him at a relatively early age, and his youth and inexperience were blamed for the WW1 debacle in the Dardanelles campaign of which he was chief engineer, a major blow to his political ambitions, but a lesson learned
Churchill was still a relatively young Statesman at the time of WW2 but had learned a great deal from his mistakes; he was acutely aware that he was both the man of the moment and under a political microscope at the same time
I will call you in on that one
Eric
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Follow Ups
- Re: The Gathering Storm. - gware 21:17:08 10/03/03 (4)
- Re: The Gathering Storm. - Ears 01:17:48 10/04/03 (3)
- You havent read The Wilderness Years - gware 02:48:04 10/04/03 (2)
- Re: You havent read The Wilderness Years - Ears 16:06:42 10/10/03 (1)
- Definitely got my interest and Finney - gware 00:30:49 10/11/03 (0)