Posted by Sigismund on August 5, 2009, at 15:39:34
In reply to Re: seldemseen, posted by seldomseen on August 5, 2009, at 14:46:05
>I think depression was largely the source of his wisdom actually.
Quite right.
It perhaps enabled him to have imagination enough to intuitively grasp Hitler. More reasonable rational humane not-terribly-brave people naturally failed. Lukacs (John not George) is an English (I think) historian who has spent a number of books writing about Churchill and his imaginative response to Hitler. There is "The Duel" and "Five Days in London, May 1940".
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