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SUMMARY:Churchill History Lecture Series: How Churchill Waged War - Allen 
 Packwood\, Director of Churchill College Archives Centre
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DESCRIPTION:Allen will be introducing his new book _How Churchill Waged Wa
 r_ in a discussion with Professor David Reynolds\, and writes:\n \n"It is 
 perhaps a self-evident thing to say\, but while waging war\, Churchill and
  his contemporaries did not how it was going to turn out. They were making
  policy and strategy on incomplete information\, wrestling with a multitud
 e of interrelated problems that were not always easy to prioritise or dise
 ntangle\, and which were often influenced by fears that did not materialis
 e or by factors that turned out to be inconsequential. Events could assume
  a momentum that it is not so easy for us to discern or understand. By loo
 king at some key decisions in context and in detail\, I hope that I will b
 e able to give insights into Churchill’s style of leadership\, but also 
 to reveal something of the mind-set\, constraints and challenges within wh
 ich he was working. My aim is to put the spotlight on history in the makin
 g\, and to challenge some of the more simplistic black and white assumptio
 ns about Churchill’s wartime ministry. \n\n"It is an approach that is pe
 rhaps best illustrated by a quote from an unpublished memoir by John Marti
 n\, a civil servant who joined Churchill’s inner team as a Private Secre
 tary in the Spring of 1940. When reflecting on those momentous days\, Mart
 in was prepared to admit with the luxury of hindsight that they may have f
 ormed ‘the finest hour’\, but that was not how they had seemed at the 
 time:  Then\, he wrote\, they had been ‘a time of agony piled on agony
 ’."\n\nAllen Packwood is the Director of the Churchill Archives Centre a
 nd a Fellow of Churchill College\, Cambridge.
LOCATION:Jock Colville Hall\, Churchill College
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