33. Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (Munich: NSDAP, 1943), 144–5, as quoted in Geoffrey Cantor and Marc Swetlitz, eds., Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006), 114.
34. This observation is found in footnote f6 on the Darwin Correspondence Project’s transcription of a letter from C. R. Darwin to A. R. Wallace (5 July 1866). The full text of the letter, and the corresponding footnotes, can be found online at www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/entry-5145.
35. Herbert Spencer, The Man versus the State: A Collection of Essays, ed. Truxton Beale (New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1916), 229.
36. Ibid., 229–30.
37. Richard Weikart, From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), 210.
38. Adrian Desmond, Huxley: From Devil’s Disciple to Evolution’s High Priest (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1997), 271.
39. Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (Munich: NSDAP, 1943), 316–17.
40. Konrad Heiden, quoted in Dusty Sklar, The Nazis and the Occult (New York: Dorset Press, 1977), 3.
CHAPTER 11: CHURCHILL’S URGENT CONCERN – AND OURS
1. Winston Churchill, chancellor’s address (University of Bristol, England, 2 July 1938), in Robert Rhodes James, ed., Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897–1963, (New York: Chelsea House, 1974), vol. 6, 5991.
2. Samuel P. Huntington, ‘The Erosion of American National Interest: The Disintegration of Identity’, in Ernest J. Wilson III, Diversity and US Foreign Policy: A Reader (New York: Routledge, 2004), 101. Italics added.
3. John Maynard Keynes, ‘CW 10, “My Early Beliefs” (1938)’, in The Essential Keynes (London: Penguin Classics, 2015).
4. Winston Churchill, broadcast on the Soviet-German War, London, 22 June 1941. The full text of the speech can be read online at www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1941/410622d.html.
5. Richard M. Langworth, ed., Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations (New York: Public Affairs, 2008), 137.
6. Winston Churchill, ‘The Defence of Freedom and Peace (The Lights Are Going Out)’ (broadcast to the United States and to London, 16 October 1938). The full text of this speech can be found online at www.winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1930-1938-the-wilderness/the-defence-of-freedom-and-peace.
7. The word antinomian is derived from the merging of two Greek terms – anti, meaning ‘against’, or ‘in place of’, and nomos, or ‘law’. Antinomianism is, broadly, the idea that one need not obey the laws of God or society.
8. ‘Wit and Wisdom – “St. George and the Dragon”’. Finest Hour 145, Winter 2009–10, 19. The full text of this article can be found online at www.winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-145/wit-and-wisdom-st-george-and- the-dragon.
9. ‘Empire or Commonwealth?’ Finest Hour 154, Spring 2012. The full text of Churchill’s remarks can be found online at www.winstonchurchill.org/publications /finest-hour/finest-hour-154/wit-and-wisdom.
10. Os Guinness, A Free People’s Suicide (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Books, 2012), 169.
11. ‘Christopher Dawson: His Interpretation of History’, Modern Age, Summer 1979, 263. Cited in Charles Colson, Kingdoms in Conflict (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1987), 288.
12. Ibid.
13. Langworth, Churchill by Himself, 115.
14. John Lukacs, Five Days in London: May 1940 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999), 16–17. Italics in the original.
15. John Lukacs, The Duel: The Eighty-Day Struggle between Churchill and Hitler (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999), 40.
16. Mary Soames, A Daughter’s Tale: The Memoir of Winston Churchill’s Youngest Child (New York: Random House, 2011), 92–3.
17. Ibid.
18. Elizabeth Nel, Mr. Churchill’s Secretary (New York: Coward-McCann, 1958), 78.
19. David McCullough, ‘Why History?’ (acceptance speech at the National Book Awards ceremony, 15 November 1995). The full text of this speech can be found online at www.nationalbook.org/nbaacceptspeech_dmccullough.html#.VUNksPlVhBd.
20. ‘American Astarte’, Kairos Journal, August 20, 2014, www.kairosjournal.org/document.aspx?DocumentID=5073&QuadrantID=4&CategoryID=6&TopicID= 23&L=1.
21. Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture, What’s Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2005), xi.
22. This quotation is often attributed to Mark Twain, but there is no definitive primary-source evidence that he ever actually said it.
23. Victor David Hanson, ‘Our Dangerous Historical Moment’, National Review, 19 February 2015, www.nationalreview.com/node/414021/our-dangerous- historical-moment-victor-davis-hanson.
24. Graeme Wood, ‘What ISIS Really Wants’, The Atlantic, March 2015, www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants/384980. Wood draws his ideas from George Orwell’s 1940 review of Mein Kampf.
25. Wood, ‘What ISIS Really Wants’.
CHAPTER 12: HOW CHURCHILL KEPT CALM AND CARRIED ON
1. Winston Churchill, chancellor’s address (University of Bristol, England, 2 July 1938), in Robert Rhodes James, ed., Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897–1963, (New York: Chelsea House, 1974), vol. 6, 5991.
2. Roger Cohen, ‘The Great Unraveling’, New York Times, 15 September 2014, www.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/opinion/roger-cohen-the-great-unraveling.html?_r=0.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Mary Soames, A Daughter’s Tale: The Memoir of Winston Churchill’s Youngest Child (New York: Random House, 2011), 141.
6. Ibid., 142–3.
7. The history of the Keep Calm and Carry On campaign can be found online at www.keepcalmandcarryon.com/history.
8. Stuart Hughes, ‘The Greatest Motivational Poster Ever?’ BBC News magazine, 4 February 2009, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7869458.stm.
9. Susannah Walker, Home Front Posters of the Second World War (Oxford: Shire Publications, 2012), 45.
10. See Proverbs 29.18.
11. ‘Boris Johnson discusses The Churchill Factor’, ChurchillCentral, accessed 21 May 2015, www.churchillcentral.com/timeline/video/boris-johnson-discusses- the-churchill-factor.
12. Richard M. Langworth, ed., Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations (New York: Public Affairs, 2008), 6–7.
13. Winston Churchill, ‘Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat’ (speech to the House of Commons, London, 13 May 1940). The full text of this speech can be found online at www.winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1940-the-finest-hour/blood-toil-tears-and-sweat.
14. Winston Churchill, ‘Be Ye Men of Valour’, BBC broadcast, 19 May 1940. The full text of this speech can be found online at www.winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1940-the-finest-hour/be-ye-men-of-valour.
15. John Colville, The Churchillians (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981), 157.
16. T. E. B. Howarth, ed., Monty at Close Quarters: Recollections of the Man (London: Leo Cooper, 1985), 86.
17. Langworth, Churchill by Himself, 18.
18. Ibid., 15.
19. 1 Chronicles 12.32.
20. John Lukacs, Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002), 17–18.
21. Winston S. Churchill, acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1953, in The Nobel Prize Library (New York: Helvetica Press, 1971), 183.
22. Langworth, Churchill by Himself, 20.
23. Ibid., 12.
24. Winston S. Churchill, ‘Air Parity Lost’ (speech to the House of Commons, London, 2 May 1935). The full text of this speech can be found online at www.winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1930-1938-the-wilderness/air-parity-lost.
25. Langworth, Churchill by Himself, 14.
26. Ibid., 13.
27. Ibid.
28. Lewis Broad, Winston Churchill: The Years of Achievement (New York: Hawthorn Books, 1963), 41.
29. Langworth, Churchill by Himself, 15.
30. Ibid., 18.
31. Ibid., 20.
32. Elizabeth Nel, Mr. Churchill’s Secretary (New York: Coward-McCann, 1958), 35.
33. Winston S. Churchill, Amid These Storms: Thoughts and Adventures (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1932), 288.
34. Ibid.
35. Steven F. Hayward, Churchill on Leadership: Executive Success in the Face of Adversity (New York: Gramercy Books, 2004), 152.
36. Ibid.
37. Galatians 3.24–26.
38. Hayward, Churchill on Leadership, 150.
39. Churchill, Amid These Storms, 290.
40. Charles McMoran Wilson, Winston S. Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940–1965 (London: Heron Books, 1966), 38.
41. Langworth, Churchill by Himself, 299.
42. Ibid., 12.
43. Churchill, Amid These Storms, 313.
44. Langworth, Churchill by Himself, 14.
45. Ibid., 18.
46. Ibid.
47. Zechariah 4.10, NIV.
48. War Memoirs of David Lloyd George: 1916–1917 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1934), 25.
49. David Jablonsky, Churchill, the Great Game, and Total War (New York: Routledge, 2013), 61.
50. Langworth, Churchill by Himself, 15.
51. Ibid.
52. Ibid., 20.
53. Ibid., 17.
54. Ibid., 12, 13.
55. Winston S. Churchill, ‘Air Parity Lost’, (speech to the House of Commons, London, 2 May 1935).
56. René Kraus, Winston Churchill: A Biography (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1940), 102.
57. Langworth, Churchill by Himself, 18.
58. Ibid., 20.
59. Mary Soames, A Daughter’s Tale: The Memoir of Winston Churchill’s Youngest Child (New York: Random House, 2011), 217.
60. Langworth, Churchill by Himself, 13.
61. Soames, A Daughter’s Tale, 254.
62. Ibid. Italics in the original.
63. Churchill, Amid These Storms, 298.
64. Ibid., 302.
65. Ibid., 307.
66. Ibid.
67. Ibid.
CHAPTER 13: CHURCHILL AND THE CHARACTER OF LEADERSHIP
1. Boris Johnson, The Churchill Factor (New York: Riverhead Books, 2014), 326.
2. Winston S. Churchill, Amid These Storms: Thoughts and Adventures (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1932), 39, 45.
3. Jonathan Currier, ‘God’s Joke Book’, Day 1, 21 July 2013. http://day1.org/5013-gods_joke_book.
4. 1 Corinthians 1.27, NIV.
5. Maurice Hankey, cited in Steven F. Hayward, Churchill on Leadership: Executive Success in the Face of Adversity (New York: Gramercy Books, 2004), 115.
6. Psalm 121.1, NIV.
7. Matthew 16.21–22.
8. See Matthew 16.21–28.
9. Winston Churchill, ‘Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat’ (speech to the House of Commons, London, 13 May 1940). The full text of this speech can be found online at www.winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1940-the-finest-hour/blood-toil-tears-and-sweat.
10. Roger Parrott, The Longview: Lasting Strategies for Rising Leaders (Colorado Springs: David C. Cook, 2009), 13.
11. Jeryl Bier, ‘Kerry on Religion: “Not the Way I Think Most People Want to Live”’, The Weekly Standard (blog), 5 May 2014, www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/kerry- religion-not-way-i-think-most-people-want-live_789066.html.
12. Winston Churchill, ‘War of the Unknown Warriors’, BBC broadcast, 14 July 1940. The full text of this speech can be found online at www.winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1940-the-finest-hour/war-of-the-unknown-warriors.
13. Winston Churchill, in a speech to a joint session of the United States Congress, 26 December 1941.
14. Cited in David Faber, Munich, 1938: Appeasement and World War II (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008), 190.
15. William Manchester, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Alone, 1932–1940 (New York: Random House, 1988), 300.
16. Ibid.
17. Richard M. Langworth, ed., Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations (New York: Public Affairs, 2008), 262.
18. Ibid., 484.
19. Martin Gilbert, Churchill: A Life (New York: Henry Holt, 1991), 82.
20. James 4.6.
21. Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948), 667.
22. Proverbs 9.10.
23. Proverbs 2.7–8, NASB.
CHAPTER 14: HELP AND HOPE FOR OUR TIMES
1. Boris Johnson, The Churchill Factor (New York: Riverhead Books, 2014), 22–4.
2. Matthew 24.14, NIV.
3. Matthew 24.6, NIV.
4. See Romans 14.17.
5. Winston Churchill, Thoughts and Adventures (London: Thornton Butterworth, 1932), 294.
6. Dr. Thomas Altizer, interview with Wallace Henley.
7. Ibid., 284. Italics added.
8. Daniel 2.20–21, NIV.
9. Romans 14.17, NIV.
10. Values regime is a term used by William Strauss and Neil Howe in The Fourth Turning (Broadway, 1997) to describe the establishment elites who set cultural precedent and consensus.
11. Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1869), 253.
12. Revelation 9.11.
13. William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960), 5.
14. 1 John 4.3, NIV.
15. 2 Thessalonians 2.8–9, NIV.
16. 1 Samuel 16.7, NIV.
17. Churchill, Thoughts and Adventures, 292.
18. Ibid.
19. Philip Jenkins, ‘The Next Christianity’, The Atlantic, 1 October 2002. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/10/the-next-christianity/302591/.
20. Churchill, Thoughts and Adventures, 280.
21. Ibid.
22. 1 Peter 3.15, NIV.
23. Psalm 46.1–3, KJV.
24. Isaiah 57.15, NIV.
25. Isaiah 9.2, NIV.
26. Churchill, Thoughts and Adventures, 19.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A BOOK OF THE MAGNITUDE of God and Churchill is far more demanding than our own knowledge and skills could encompass. We’re grateful to the people whose efforts were essential to the completion of this project. We thank God for awakening the vision in Jonathan for this book, sowing a fascination for Churchill in Wallace decades ago, and then bringing us together. Our spouses’ encouragement and forbearance as we worked long hours researching and writing deserve our deepest thanks.
Without the careful research of Sir Martin Gilbert especially, along with other Churchill scholars and writers, our task would have been impossible.
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