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[Churchill's Bunker: The Secret Headquarters at the Heart of Britain's Victory] [By: Richard Holmes] [January, 2011]
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Richard Holmes
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Edward Richard Holmes was Professor of Military and Security Studies at Cranfield University and the Royal Military College of Science. He was educated at Cambridge, Northern Illinois, and Reading Universities, and carried out his doctoral research on the French army of the Second Empire. For many years he taught military history at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.
A celebrated military historian, Holmes is the author of the best-selling and widely acclaimed Tommy and Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket. His dozen other books include Dusty Warriors, Sahib, The Western Front, The Little Field Marshal: Sir John French, The Road to Sedan, Firing Line, The Second World War in Photographs and Fatal Avenue: A Traveller’s History of Northern France and Flanders (also published by Pimlico).
He was general editor of The Oxford Companion to Military History and has presented eight BBC TV series, including ‘War Walks’, ‘The Western Front’ and ‘Battlefields’, and is famous for his hugely successful series ‘Wellington: The Iron Duke’ and ‘Rebels and Redcoats’.
See this thread for more information.
Edward Richard Holmes was Professor of Military and Security Studies at Cranfield University and the Royal Military College of Science. He was educated at Cambridge, Northern Illinois, and Reading Universities, and carried out his doctoral research on the French army of the Second Empire. For many years he taught military history at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.
A celebrated military historian, Holmes is the author of the best-selling and widely acclaimed Tommy and Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket. His dozen other books include Dusty Warriors, Sahib, The Western Front, The Little Field Marshal: Sir John French, The Road to Sedan, Firing Line, The Second World War in Photographs and Fatal Avenue: A Traveller’s History of Northern France and Flanders (also published by Pimlico).
He was general editor of The Oxford Companion to Military History and has presented eight BBC TV series, including ‘War Walks’, ‘The Western Front’ and ‘Battlefields’, and is famous for his hugely successful series ‘Wellington: The Iron Duke’ and ‘Rebels and Redcoats’.
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July 8, 2024
Some interesting notes/ideas
Churchill preferred to stay above ground and many meetings were not held in the bunker. He rarely slept there and unlike Hitler, he visited bombed out neighborhoods and put himself at risk. The bunker was in fact, not bomb-proof, a temporary fix at first that became permanent.
Author argues that Churchill was in charge, but typically, would give in when generals spoke against his most outlandish ideas. There was an important balance here. Churchill demanded action and overestimated Britain's power, the military understood the limitations of Britain. Without Churchill many useful initiatives would never have been undertaken, but had Churchill been unchecked by cautious military it would have been a disaster.
Churchill preferred to stay above ground and many meetings were not held in the bunker. He rarely slept there and unlike Hitler, he visited bombed out neighborhoods and put himself at risk. The bunker was in fact, not bomb-proof, a temporary fix at first that became permanent.
Author argues that Churchill was in charge, but typically, would give in when generals spoke against his most outlandish ideas. There was an important balance here. Churchill demanded action and overestimated Britain's power, the military understood the limitations of Britain. Without Churchill many useful initiatives would never have been undertaken, but had Churchill been unchecked by cautious military it would have been a disaster.
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