Churchill's Funeral: The End of Empire, by Patrick Bishop
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On 30 January, 1965, the world said farewell to Sir Winston Churchill. In Britain a million people lined the funeral route, from Westminster Hall to his grave in Bladon churchyard, close to Blenheim Palace where he was born. Across the globe, a staggering 350 million more watched on television. It was the largest TV audience ever recorded. It was something that no-one who saw it would forget, a symphony of ceremony on the grandest scale, full of pageantry, pomp and grandeur, a self-consciously historical event to honour a man who had so shaped history. It was clear that his funeral would signify more than the official burial of a great Prime Minister. It was not just the end of a life, it was the end of an era. The country that Churchill was leaving behind would soon bear little resemblance to the one he had been born into. The empire was going or gone, and with it the confidence, power, wealth and cultural certainties that underpinned it. On that sharp, clear morning, Britain was saying goodbye to all that, as well as bidding farewell to a great leader. His funeral was a watershed moment in British history, an unusually sharply defined point when the old nation, exemplified by the pomp and ceremony of a great empire gave way to the country we have today. Would Churchill recognise the society we live in today? And what remains of the values and ideals he championed? In 'Churchill's Funeral' Patrick Bishop reflects back on Churchill’s leadership during the Second World War to explore how a man who had as many enemies as supporters has managed to gain such a prominent place in our social history. Patrick Bishop is the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling ‘Fighter Boys’, ‘Bomber Boys’, ‘3 Para’ and ‘Target Tirpitz’. Previously a foreign correspondent for over twenty years, he has reported from conflicts all over the world, and was for many years Middle East correspondent for the Daily Telegraph. He lives in West London. Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent publisher of digital books.
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- Published on: 2015-05-25
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Truthful summary of Churchill's life and contribution to mankind By Margaret Vafides The writer draws us in quickly to describe the relevance of a man introducing him to new generations as relevant as he was then to the world as it is now. Good read!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A Splendid Exit - Churchill's Funeral By Askold Askold Krushelnycky, Washington DC I was 10 when Winston Churchill died in January 1965. One of those moments – if you're old enough – that you remember what you were doing at the time you heard about the event . As with the news about Kennedy's assassination.Patrick Bishop's masterful, short book, Churchill's Funeral: The End of Empire, describes the images of that day so vividly that I'm uncertain whether the black and white flickering TV images I seem to see are real memories of my own or pictures conjured up by author Patrick Bishop, who excels at his twin crafts of journalism and history writing.Bishop's many excellent books about World War Two mean he had, prior to writing this book, already immersed himself in a period where Churchill was at his peak and that is apparent in this work.He sets the scene for the funeral in an age that seemed intent on making a conscious break with the world that Churchill had been born into and whose characteristics – belief in British superiority and an incontestable right to rule over the quarter of the planet constituting the British Empire he embodied. It was a time when some of that Churchillian world view was being rudely challenged by a cultural revolution led by the likes of The Rolling Stones and the Monty Python crew who questioned and mocked the very way Britons perceived their own history and the upheavals, including World Wars One and Two their parents and grandparents (and Churchill) had lived through.Bishop's book doesn't claim to be anywhere approaching a complete history of Churchill's life . But it provides a compact summary of some of the most important events of the man's life and shows how perilously close Churchill came to NOT becoming prime minister and Britain's wartime leader. The alternatives to Churchill would almost certainly, following the surrender of their allies in Europe and faced by an alliance between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, tried to make a deal with Hitler.But by using a combination of his savvy political poker skills, genius at using the spoken and written English word, a supreme conviction that his reading of history was correct, and a large measure of luck, Churchill did become prime minister.Bishop shows how Churchill probably was what Churchill himself believed he was – the man whose already long , intense, adventurous, turbulent life had been a preparation to lead Britain in that particular and most dangerous slice of its history whose outcome would determine the fate of the entire world.Even if that world was changing in ways that probably disappointed Churchill – especially the near eradication of the Empire he so cherished - Bishop describes the momentous effect around the British and wider world of the news that Churchill was gone.Even in a Britain that was embarking on a period of, often cynical and self-doubting, reappraisal of its own worth and values, Bishop's book shows the entire country was gripped by the death of Churchill and reflected on what his life meant to them.The massive attention and reverence Churchill's funeral provoked demonstrated that despite his flaws, Churchill embodied those virtues of courage, patriotism, action, defense of decency ,and love of liberty, that enabled him to rally Britons fighting vastly outnumbered against tyranny during the war. Churchill's spirit remains inspiring today in a world where his values - western notions of democracy and decency - are under assault by vicious, revamped versions of the evil systems he fought against.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A Clear, Concise Appraisal By Janet K. Schwartzkopf This Kindle Single did just about everything I wanted it to do. On the one hand, it provided a nice factual reminder of Churchill's life and death in this 50th anniversary year of his passing. On the other hand, it also offered an interesting analysis of what Churchill believed he and the British Empire were fighting for, and how much of what he hoped to preserve was made impossible by the very act of war, which seldom preserves anything and typically offers strange and different results when the treaties are signed and the mess cleaned up -- a point the author clearly makes. Overall, Mr. Bishop has written a clear, concise appraisal of one of the 20th century's more interesting characters, and I wouldn't have minded a few more pages if he'd cared to write them.
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