Winston Groom

and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.”(Churchill, Winston) Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill is known as one of the greatest war time heroes of the twentieth century. He was also a British officer, author, historian, artist, and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He had a strong influence in not just the United Kingdom, but all over the world. People have been inspired by his books, and his work in the army. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was born on November 30,…

Being a newly formed nation, America did not share the same intelligence institutions as its counterpart, Britain, and therefore relied on the British for their, for a lack of a better term, brains and geographical advantages. The American department of state policy outline in the creation of the Atlantic Alliance that the United Kingdom should ‘retain control of her outlying possessions’ so that certain territories such as Malaysia would not ‘fall into less friendly hands.’ The phrase ‘less…

Soon after the other Axis powers declared war on the United States, and we were in the war. The Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was happy that we had finally joined the war. After the war ended, America finally made Hawaii a state in 1959. Some of the rumors that floated were facts, on November 30, 1941 the headlines on the Hilo Tribune Herald were…

Air power influenced each member of the Allies and Axis powers uniquely through the context in which they viewed the effects of air power in World War I (WWI), the development of theories and technology in the interwar years, and the geopolitical situation facing the nations at the outset of World War II (WWII). These situations and experiences created a perception of the capabilities of air power that drove the creation and employment of the nations’ air arm. In turn, each belligerents’…

It all started with a letter. Tiny scrawls on a bottom of a page from the United States President Harry Truman was what spurred former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill into action to compose what are now arguably known as the most important speeches in the World War Two era. Churchill had already been a prominent figure during these testing times, but his speeches in 1946 raised his name to a higher atmosphere. These speeches no doubt resonated throughout the entire world, eliciting a…

The first scene of Gallipoli the film begins with a teenage boy timing his sprint speed on a dirt and gravel track in Australia around 8 months after the start of WWI, the boy would become known as Archie. Archie wants to enlist for the army and since he can ride, he hopes to enter the Light Horse although he is underage for the military entirely. One day when Archie gets into a heated discrepancy with a man by the name of Les McCann a race is organized between the two, with McCann on horseback…

also reflect the moral of a story. In the novel 1984, by George Orwell, is a great example of a well-set collision in a story. Winston, the main protagonist, has many cultural collisions making him the most important and relevant character in the story. The most dominant cultural collision Winston has overall in the novel is, institutional. The reason being, Winston does not agree with big brother and the overall government that is sectioned off into parties where he lives. An example of…

you won’t get to eat there. The five people I am inviting are Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Selena Gomez, William Shakespeare, and my grandfather that I call Pappy. I will be ordering the Tree Blossom, which is tempuraed big leaf maple blossom, spring cattail shoots, and wild shellfish. Abraham Lincoln will order Wild Things, which is pancetta wrapped roasted Wapato bulb stuffed with bay-leaf fish mousse. Winston Churchill will eat The Good Egg, which is marinated herbfarm egg, wild hooker…

located under the Treasury Building on King Charles Street in Whitehall (an area in the City of Westminster), London. The main purpose of the Cabinet War Rooms was to protect members of Parliament (most importantly the Prime Minister at the time, Winston Churchill) during the course of the Blitz (a series of bombing attacks upon the City of London by Nazi bombers during the Second World War); however it also served the purpose of protecting members of parliament during important cabinet meetings…

June 28, 1919 was a historic day for the world. That fateful day, the Allies forced the Germans to sign the Treaty of Versailles, an agreement to make amends for their part in ‘The war to end all wars.’ Consequently, the treaty also enabled a tenacious tyrant, Adolf Hitler, to rise to power in poverty-stricken Germany. Instead of honoring the treaty, Hitler conquered neighboring countries, and eventually, France and Great Britain had no choice but to declare war. Germany immediately targeted…