{"id":12014,"date":"2022-03-23T13:41:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T12:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=204332"},"modified":"2022-03-23T14:04:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T13:04:17","slug":"our-winston-churchill-obsession","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/our-winston-churchill-obsession\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Winston Churchill obsession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Spencer Mizen\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 23 March 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/second-world-war\/facts-winston-churchill-prime-minister-speeches-clementine-childhood\/&quot;\">Winston Churchill<\/a> looms large in the modern imagination. Everyone from <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/20th-century\/how-should-history-remember-fidel-castro\/&quot;\">Fidel Castro<\/a> to George W Bush have cited him as an exemplar in times of crisis. Historian Geoffrey Wheatcroft talks to Spencer Mizen about the world\u2019s fixation with the wartime leader, arguing that this obsession is neither healthy, nor necessarily merited.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-204332-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/03\/Churchill_shadow-11ad17e.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/03\/Churchill_shadow-11ad17e.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/03\/Churchill_shadow-11ad17e.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><strong>Geoffrey Wheatcroft is the author of <em>Churchill\u2019s Shadow: An Astonishing Life and a Dangerous Legacy<\/em> (Vintage, 2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/churchill-s-shadow-an-astonishing-life-and-a-dangerous-legacy\/9781847925732&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Churchills-Bust-Geoffrey-Wheatcroft\/dp\/1847925731?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Buy now on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/churchills-shadow\/geoffrey-wheatcroft\/9781847925732&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Waterstones<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><p><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/how-to-download-the-history-extra-podcast\/&quot;\">How to download the <em>HistoryExtra<\/em> podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__iefix&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__visible&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__inner&quot;\"><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.acast.com\/historyextra\/our-winston-churchill-obsession\/media.mp3&quot;\">Download as MP3<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Spencer Mizen Published: Wednesday, 23 March 2022 at 12:00 am Winston Churchill looms large in the modern imagination. 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