Winston S. Churchill, the Great War, and Its Aftermath

Session Submission Type: Full Panel

Session Description

The First World War was the greatest political event of Winston Churchill’s career—until it was eclipsed by his prime ministry in the Second. This panel explores Churchill’s statesmanship at home and abroad during and after the Great War to reassess the enduring significance of the war as a turning point in world history, in British politics, and in Churchill’s life and thought.

Sub Unit

• Related Groups / Churchill Centre, The (International Churchill Society)

Individual Presentations

• Desperation and Confusion: Churchill Calls for Fisher’s Return to the Admiralty - Barry Gough, Wilfrid Laurier University

• “Forced into the Shade”: Churchill and America’s Naval Challenge in the 1920s - John H. Maurer, Naval War College

• The Great War and the World That Vanished - James W. Muller, University of Alaska, Anchorage

Chair

• Michael F Bishop International Churchill Society

Discussant

• Justin D. Lyons Ashland University