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Winston Churchill! What's the Big Deal? Is He In History Books Enough? Should He Be Admired or Canceled? Part I: A Break Down of the First 20 Hours from the Audio Book - Walking with Destiny.

from The Best Paragraph I've Read... · host Zac & Don

The Best Paragraph I've Read: "The one case in which I think I can see the finger of God in contemporary history is Churchill's arrival at the premiership at that precise moment in 1940.  Churchill put his remarks... far more poetically three years later in the final lines of his book The Gathering Storm, the first volume of his war memoirs.  Recalling the evening of Friday, 10 May 1940, when he had become prime minister only hours after Adolf Hitler had unleashed his Blitzkrieg on the West, Churchill wrote, 'I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial." This paragraph comes from the book Churchill: Walking with Destiny.  The book is written by Andrew Roberts.  You an find the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Churchill-Walking-Destiny-Andrew-Roberts/dp/1101980990 Zac and Don have been listening to the audio version of this book.  They breakdown the first twenty hours and discuss Churchills early life while connecting it to our times in the present.  They wonder if history books should have more Churchill coverage and if he would be canceled in today's culture.  

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