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CATEGORIES:Churchill History Lecture Series
SUMMARY:Churchill History Lecture Series: How Churchill Wa
 ged War - Allen Packwood\, Director of Churchill C
 ollege Archives Centre
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UID:TALK114775AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/114775
DESCRIPTION:Allen will be introducing his new book _How Church
 ill Waged War_ in a discussion with Professor Davi
 d Reynolds\, and writes:\n \n"It is perhaps a self
 -evident thing to say\, but while waging war\, Chu
 rchill and his contemporaries did not how it was g
 oing to turn out. They were making policy and stra
 tegy on incomplete information\, wrestling with a 
 multitude of interrelated problems that were not a
 lways easy to prioritise or disentangle\, and whic
 h were often influenced by fears that did not mate
 rialise or by factors that turned out to be incons
 equential. Events could assume a momentum that it 
 is not so easy for us to discern or understand. By
  looking at some key decisions in context and in d
 etail\, I hope that I will be able to give insight
 s into Churchill’s style of leadership\, but also 
 to reveal something of the mind-set\, constraints 
 and challenges within which he was working. My aim
  is to put the spotlight on history in the making\
 , and to challenge some of the more simplistic bla
 ck and white assumptions about Churchill’s wartime
  ministry. \n\n"It is an approach that is perhaps 
 best illustrated by a quote from an unpublished me
 moir by John Martin\, a civil servant who joined C
 hurchill’s inner team as a Private Secretary in th
 e Spring of 1940. When reflecting on those momento
 us days\, Martin was prepared to admit with the lu
 xury of hindsight that they may have formed ‘the f
 inest hour’\, but that was not how they had seemed
  at the time:  Then\, he wrote\, they had been ‘a 
 time of agony piled on agony’."\n\nAllen Packwood 
 is the Director of the Churchill Archives Centre a
 nd a Fellow of Churchill College\, Cambridge.
LOCATION:Jock Colville Hall\, Churchill College
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