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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Typed letter signed to Brigadier-General J.E. Edmonds (director of the historical section of the Committee of Imperial Defence), 11 Downing Street, 22 May 1928, 2 pages, 4to.
'MY MEMORY IS OF COURSE VERY FULLY STOCKED'. At work on The Aftermath of the World Crisis, Churchill frankly asks for a reading guide on the military aspects: 'These are of course far les prominent in the period 1919-1922 than in the earlier books. Nevertheless Archangel and Murmansk, Denikin and Koltchak, the Greek and Turkish conflicts and our very unsatisfactory parts in them, and last of all Chanak (my curtain) are full of deeply interesting military episodes'; he has so much material on the Russian section with which he opens that 'what I should really like would be a short synopsis of the principal and decisive episodes ... My memory is of course very fully stocked, and yet it is astonishing how difficult it is to recall the sequence of events in their completeness'.
Writings of Sir Winston Churchill © Estate of Winston S. Churchill
'MY MEMORY IS OF COURSE VERY FULLY STOCKED'. At work on The Aftermath of the World Crisis, Churchill frankly asks for a reading guide on the military aspects: 'These are of course far les prominent in the period 1919-1922 than in the earlier books. Nevertheless Archangel and Murmansk, Denikin and Koltchak, the Greek and Turkish conflicts and our very unsatisfactory parts in them, and last of all Chanak (my curtain) are full of deeply interesting military episodes'; he has so much material on the Russian section with which he opens that 'what I should really like would be a short synopsis of the principal and decisive episodes ... My memory is of course very fully stocked, and yet it is astonishing how difficult it is to recall the sequence of events in their completeness'.
Writings of Sir Winston Churchill © Estate of Winston S. Churchill
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