Thoughts and Adventures

Sir Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Celebrated as one of the greatest statesmen of the twentieth century, he was a gifted orator and historian. The author of more than forty books, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 and in 1963 was made an honorary citizen of the United States.James W. Muller is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, and chairman of the Board of Academic Advisers of the International Churchill Society. Educated at Harvard University and the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, he is a by-fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. His two-volume edition of Churchill’s early book The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan won the 2021 Churchill Literary Award. He also edited a new edition of Churchill’s Great Contemporaries, available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series.

• IntroductionEditor's Note on the EditionPrefaceA Second ChoiceCartoons and CartoonistsConsistency in PoliticsPersonal ContactsThe Battle of Sidney StreetThe German SplendourMy Spy StoryWith the Grenadiers'Plugstreet'The U-Boat WarThe Dover BarrageLudendorff's 'All – or Nothing'A Day with ClemenceauIn the AirElection MemoriesThe Irish TreatyParliamentary Government and the Economic ProblemShall We All Commit Suicide?Mass Effects in Modern LifeFifty Years HenceMosesHobbiesPainting as a PastimeNotesAcknowledgmentsIndex

James W. Muller is one of the most insightful and meticulous of Churchill scholars, and here he has produced one of Churchill's most important works. Churchill’s depth is not fully apparent until one has read several of these essays, especially "Mass Effects in Modern Life," “Shall We All Commit Suicide?" and "50 Years Hence." James has the qualities to present what will be the best edition of this essential work.