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"Churchill: Walking with Destiny" by Andrew Roberts

  Sydney M. Williams www.burrowingintobooks.blogspot.com                 April 24, 2019 Burrowing into Books “Churchill: Walking with Destiny,” by Andrew Roberts “ Words spoken with fleeting breath, the passing expressions of the unstable fancies of the mind, endure not as echoes of the past, nor as mere archeological curiosities or venerable relics, but with a force and life as new and strong, and sometimes far stronger, than when they were first spoken, and leaping across the gulf of three thousand years, they light the world for us today .”                                                                                                 Winston Churchill (1874-1964)                                                                                                 February 1908, Author’s Club, London Churchill was much more than the man who saved England (and western civilization), though that was his greatest gift. Over the course of his long