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Article: BOOK REVIEW
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 7, 1994
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There is a new monument to Winston Churchill being raised in
Calais, a 15-foot high bronze hand that offers the Victory V salute
to British visitors as they enter France. It was commissioned
privately by a former Resistance fighter, who, when asked last week
why he had spent his life savings to honour Churchill's memory,
explained: "He was the man who said no."
Over here another two books on Churchill have appeared. Norman
Rose (Churchill: An Unruly Life, Simon & Schuster, pounds 20) gives
a good, balanced account; Clive Ponting (Churchill,
Sinclair-Stevenson, pounds 20) has produced a malign catalogue of
Churchill's mistakes and misdeeds which diminishes the author more
than the subject.
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