including really important ones, like randolph churchill's papers have been -- the -- winston churchill's son. also sarah churchill's papers are there now. there have been all sorts of fascinating series of documents and diaries and letters that were not available, either to martin or to roy. i am also the first person to be able to, through the generosity of her majesty the queen, to read the king's diary for the second world war. that was not open to, in its entirety, that was not open to martin. in its entirety. martin had to use the published biography by wheeler bennett. and that is completely fascinating. the relationship between those two men is going to be pretty much a mainstay of my book. i have basically concentrated on primary sources. roy never went to churchill archives and used those sources at all. he wasn't terribly interested in the military strategy. as you can imagine having written books on this, it's a subject i think is fascinating and absolutely central to understanding winston churchill and the importance of winston churchill in history. the other point about roy

eagerly awaiting his next book, what is sure to be the definitive single volume biography of sir winston churchill which will be published next year. so without further ado, on the subject of churchill's sense of living history, ladies and gentlemen, andrew roberts p. [ applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, it's a great honor to be invited to address you. and thank you very much indeed, catherine, for those very kind words. this morning, when we started this morning, david freeman equated this conference to an opera. the only thing i know about opera is that the opera ain't over until the fat woman sings. and i think that's a really rather rude thing to say about me, frankly. one of the things that makes me proud to be an historian is that despite the pitfalls of my trade, which can be summed up as pen yoo penury, pedantry, and punditry, nonetheless, the greatest man in history also chose it as his. more than anything other than a statesman and a soldier, churchill thought of himself as a historian. and moreover, he also thought of his roles as statesman and politician almost entirely through the pr

awaiting his next book, had a what is sure to be the definitive single volume biography of sir winston churchill which will be published next year. so without further ado, on the subject of churchill's living history, ladies and gentlemen, andrew roberts. >> ladies and gentlemen, it's a great honor to be invited to address you. and thank you very much indeed katherine for the very kind words. and this morning whether we starmented this morning, david freeman equated this conference to an opera. the only thing i know about opera is that the opera entails until the fat woman sings. i think that is a rather rude thing to say about me. it could be summed up as punditry and the greatest man in history also chose it as his. more than anything other than a statesman, churchill thought of himself as a historian and moreover, he thought of his roles as statesman and politician almost entirely through the prism of history. he was far from being a model schoolboy jack plum reminds us in his essay. he was willful, self involved and stupid about mathematics or latin. he was well ahead of his class in history

roosevelt and prime minister winston churchill. these are leaders that were willing to commit their country to a long bloody conflict in the name of freedom, to support the freedom and independence of their own homelands but to support freedom and democracy for other people around the world. they combined that with a deep humility. they believed that our countries had to be worthy spiritually and morally of the victory they were asking god to grant us. so on january 1st, 1942, our president roosevelt and mrs. roosevelt came here to christ church with prime minister winston churchill, lord halifax, the british ambassador, and lady halifax, and others in their party to commemorate what roosevelt had called for, the national day of prayer. and they prayed for three things. they prayed for strength in the coming conflict. they prayed for a just peace. and above all, they prayed for forgiveness of our national sins so that we would be worthy of the victory they were asking god to grant us. and that combination of the willingness to comm

fdr and british prime minister winston churchill worshipped that day in george washington's hometown church. american history tv visited christ church in alexandria, virginia, to hear the story. >> hi. i'm john watson. of the former senior warden here at christ church in alexandria, virginia. with me is our rector, the reverend noel york simmons. the story that i will describe today, to me, is really a lesson in leadership from perhaps the greatest leaders of the 20th century, president franklin roosevelt and prime minister winston churchill. these are men who are willing to commit their countries to a long, bloody conflict in the name of freedom, to support the freedom and independence of their own homelands, but to support freedom and democracy for other people around the world. they combined that with a deep humility. they believe that our countries had to be worthy spiritually and morally, of the victory they were asking god to grant us. so on january 1st, 1942, our president roosevelt and mrs. roosevelt came here to christ church with prime minister winston churchill, lord halif

house lords member michael dobbs, creator of "house of cards" and author of four novels about winston churchill. this keynote address at the international churchill conference in new york city is 40 minutes. >> i'd like to ask, we have as a guest speaker tonight and i'd like to ask the very beautiful talented and brilliant lisa to come up tonight if you would. lisa daftari is a fantastic journalist. seven years at fox news. publishes foreign desk and she has the privilege of -- no, actually, that's wrong. lord dobbs has the privilege of being introduced by lisa. [ applause ] >> good evening. i just realized i'm going to be the only person on the stage tonight who doesn't have a british accent. but i do have an accent. you'll have to see if you can detect it at some point. more pertinent to the city that we're in. if you'd ask him, lord dobbs would tell you that he never had a proper job. yet it was in his restless search as he calls it for this ideal job that he just happened, happened to stumble upon some of the most wonderful and rewarding experiences that anyone could ever hope to have in a

we're more than experts on the family life of winston churchill. and it was very exciting yesterday to hear

so i don't like to ever accuse winston churchill of op pore ton -- opportunism. when it comes to his dealing with that particular essay, let's just say it was superb timing. any more? i'm pleased that was a completely comprehensive speech. ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much, indeed. [ applause ] >>> now more from the annual winston churchill conference from kevin ruane and the use of nuclear weapons. this is 45 minutes. >> all right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. to introduce our next speaker of the morning, we have another very special lady, please welcome edwina sands. [ applause ] >> good morning. can you hear me all right? clear as a bell, i hope. well, it's lovely to be here for another conference. each one i come to seems to be even better than the last. now, we have kevin, kevin ruane here, who has written this very, very good book. "churchill and the bomb." so one of my grandfather's best quotations, and there are so many to choose from, is this one. the further backward we can look, the further forward you are likely to see. we think most of

of winston churchill. first october 1953, nearly 81 years of age. he talks in the house of commons about nuclear saturation, saturation. both sides having lots of these weapons. he looked forward to a future when the advance of destructive weapons enables everyone to kill everybody else, because then nobody will want to kill anyone at all. if that's not a description of mutually assured destruction, i don't know what is. yet his final great speech before parliament in march 1955 on the hydrogen bomb, he left the same message. there might in the future be a nuclear balance in the world, and that might not be a bad thing. it would be a sublime irony, he admitted, but it could be the safety will be the sturdy child of terror and survival the twin brother of annihilation. in the meantime he closed. never flinch, never weary, never despair. with that he sat down after 55 years as a parliamentarian and never got up to make another major speech in the house of commons again. what a way to go. two fine speeches. but that speech is up there for me without an

up next from the 34th annual winston churchill conference historian kevin ruane discusses , winston churchill and the development and use of nuclear weapons. he is the author of "churchill and the bomb in war and cold war." this event from new york city is about 45 minutes. >> all right, ladies and gentlemen. welcome back. and to introduce our next speaker, we have a very special lady. please welcome edwin a sands. edwina sands. [applause] edwina: good morning. can you hear me all right? clear as a bell, i hope. it is lovely to be here for another conference. each one i come to seems to be even better than the last. we have kevin, kevin ruane here, who has written this very, very good book, "churchill and the bomb." one of my grandfather's best quotations, and there are so many to choose from, is this one. "the farther backward we can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." we think, most of us, that history is past. done and dusted, over with, just a memory. but history has a way of coming back to bite us. as ronald reagan said, "here we go again." i remember when the cold war was

winston as an old man. and i dived into something called -- it was an international churchill society publication, a monograph called "the dream". i don't know david whether we still publish it. it was an extraordinary expos igs of the hang-ups that winston had, even as an old man, about his father. i wanted to know about winston as a child. so i web to his first school, st. georges's as cot and discovered the extraordinary and actually rather horrid story of his days at st. george's with that appalling head master that he had, reverend herbert steed kinsley, a man who was intent on breaking winston. winston at st. george's was abused in so many ways. she is abused intellectually, he was abused physically, he was abused emotionally and quite probably he was abused in other ways, too. winston, being a naughty boy -- and he was a naughty boy. he was a pain as a kid. was discovered one day to have stolen a pocket full of sugar from the school's pantry. for that crime he was taken to the head master's study where he was held -- he was stripped naked. he was held down across a beating block, and he was thrashed. a

here's gary oldman as winston churchill in "darkest hour."obtain the best conditions possible. hitler will not insist on outrageous terms. he will know his own weaknesses. he will be reasonable. >> when will the lesson be learned? when will the lesson be learned? how many more dictators must be wooed? appeased? good god, giving him [ indiscernible ] before we learn? you cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth! >> jimmy: yes! [ cheers and applause ] that's how you do it! head is in his mouth! yes! gary oldman, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] go see "darkest hour" in select theaters november 22nd. we'll be right back with gigi hadid. stick around, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ this is electricity. ♪ this is a power plant. this is tim barckholtz. that's me! this is something he is researching at exxonmobil: using fuel cells to capture carbon emissions at power plants. this is the potential. reducing co2 emissions by up to 90%... while also producing more power. this could be big. energy lives here. directv has been ra

. >>> this is 45 minutes on winston churchill and nuclear weapons. >>> we have another very special lady, please welcome edwina sands. [ applause ] >> good morning. can you hear me all right? clear as a bell, i hope. well, it's lovely to be here for another conference. each one i come to seems to be even better than the last. now we have kevin, kevin roane here, who has written this very, very good book. churchill and the bomb. so one of my grandfather's best quotations, and there are so many to choose from, is this one. the further backward we can look, the further forward you are likely to see. we think most of us, that history is past. done and dusted. over with. just a memory. but history has a way of coming back to bite us. as ronald reagan said, here we go again. i remember when the cold war was over. but then it wasn't. i remember further back when people were scared of the a-bomb and then worse of the h-bomb. and now today, the specter of nuclear war has once again reared its ugly head. kevin roane is professor of modern history at canterbury, christchurch university in the unite

churchill. it's colleague says basically comes to the conclusion that attlee had decided right at the start of war to back winston on all decisions. as much as we talk about the great success story. 40 to 42 the war doesn't go well for britain and churchill. and there are plenty of shots circling around him. including those like lord beaver brook. who are supposed to be closest to him. it's not just during the last flashes of appeasement. it's through all those early major decisions. and that relationship is crucial. attlee needs to be given his due. and churchill did appreciate him. because who is criticizing attlee for being to churchill. now you can say he does so because he's a simplistic thinker or too -- that's what his party said. that's what the general said. i have to suggest that actually attlee had a broader appreciation of what he called higher strategy. which distinguished churchill from the generals in particular the chief general staff who had a more limited conception of strategy. and also attlee understood that churchill had a better appreciation and understanding of what he calls the precurious

for his incredible performance, as winston churchill in "the darkest hour." in this clip we see britain's iconic war time leader saving the world as we know it, by staring down the nazis refusing to surrender to hitler. >> now is the time to negotiate. >> when shall the lesson be learned. you cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth! >> all was nearly lost in 1940 as plucky britain stood alone against monstrous tyranny. another year before the united states entered the ward to defend pratzed oldman's -- pratz praised oldman. oldman tells me about disappearing into the role. after hundreds of hours in the makeup chair. >> gary oldman, welcome to the program. >> thank you, yeah. >> you are the talk of the town. people are talking about you as a shoo-in for an oscar nomination. golden globes. you did just win an award from british film industry. how does it feel? >> it feels very good. i mean -- it, it's always, always nice when, when people acknowledge the work and they thing it is good. and there is some highs and there is some lows. you know?

i also want to thank the churchill family who do so much to keep winston's flame alive. celia and randal, yes. randal, of course. we owe you so much for all the work that you do and make a joy of winston so -- so much fun. and we heard so many votes of thanks to day from michael bishop and lawrence who thanks to everybody. but one thing they haven't thank thanked is themselves. we hoe them a huge debt of thanks. michael and lawrence. having played our society and our love of winston not only so much fun but also so incredibly successful. and i can nnot tell you how, yo know, these things don't happen through accident. they happen through a great deal of work. and michael, lawrence, it's largely been your work. so thank you very much indeed for that. you were talking earlier about lawrence about who is going to say no to a churchill and delighted to discover you haven't said no to a churchill, you and jenny are going to be a proper couple very soon. i can't tell you how delighted i am about that. >> but do you have a favorite that you would write? i feel like. that i'm a

imagine what king farooque had been thinking of trying to make an untrue historical point to winston churchill, of all people. i have particular interest in king farooque in that his last mistress once made a pass at me. in the rest of the war churchill compared the exposed position to napoleon's at one time. he told stalin about the battles in blenheim. he contrasted cairo in 1942 to napoleon's defense of paris in 1814. told the king in 1943 if india were finally separated from your majesty's dough mminions and toe royal college of physicians in 1944 the longer you look back, the further you can look forward. he noted, when he reached one of the great rivers in italy, here the defeat sealed the fate of carthage. so i suggested we go across too. i'll stop at the end of the war. there were many occasions when he cited historical parallels to amplify his messages. on the evening of his stroke in 1953 he had earlier that same night been talking about the influence which italy exercised upon the civilization of rome and how the roman legions crossing the alps bore with them something greater than

he becomes winston churchill.nated and possibly win best actor at this year's academy awards. see it for the performance. his performance is better than the overall film. next up and finally is "the big sick." i love this movie. it just reminded me of why i love going to the movies. it made me so happy. i thought about it afterwards. kumail nanjiani having a great year. definitely worth seeing. it got shut out at the golden globes, but did pick up a best ensemble nomination at the sag awards, which is a big indication for the oscars. all right, so you can always get my latest reviews, movie insight, and celebrity interviews on twitter @kevinmccarthytv and on the fox d.c. youtube page. "mccarthy at the movies" rolls on. ♪ ♪ ♪ it feels good to be back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ announcer: today on "tmz"! >> ok. merry christmas, everybody. merry christmas. christmas has just begun because we're going to give people presents. >> yay! harvey: if they can get the answers to these clues about stories that we have done about celebritie

so i want to talk about the relationship that clement atly had with winston churchill, and more specifically because we're in a conference, i want to talk about the insights i think that atly offers about churchill's character and particularly strategy during the second world war. and i can start talking about churchill and atly through many anecdotes. some apock row fill, some true. that atly was a modest man with much to be modest about. or a sheep in sheep's -- sorry, a sheep in wool's clothing. or the famous one that's perhaps too crude to mention before the watershed, but i must do anyway, which is the story of them entering a urinal in the war cabinet during the second world war where apparently winston shuffled off to one corner and atly said, "unusually modest for you, winston." to which churchill replied, "any time you socialists see something big, you want to nationalize it." [ laughter ] i'm not sure how much any of this is true. but just to say while there is lots of disparaging remarks attributed to churchill about atly, the interesting thing is that churchill would never allow

sir winston churchill as a flash of colour.ueen, and he was a dashing neighbour —— naval officer. in the yea rs neighbour —— naval officer. in the years since he has travelled the world with her and been her companion both in public and in private. in june it companion both in public and in private. injune it was illness rather than retirement which prevented the duke from being at the queen's side at the state 0pening prevented the duke from being at the queen's side at the state opening of parliament. prince charles took his place but going forward, this will become the norm and all of the palace has been keen to emphasise that for the queen it is still business as usual, the gradual transition of roles and responsibilities from one generation to the next as noticeably accelerated this year. most significantly in november. for the first time in her 65 year reign, the first time in her 65 year reign, the queen was present at the service of remembrance at the cenotaph in london but she did not lay a wreath. instead, she was fro

. >> seth: about something that winston churchill actually did. >> yes, so this one -- i'm not sure if in america, but that means up >> seth: yeah. >> and i remember doing it at school, and being like -- [ laughter ] >> seth: yeah. >> whereas this one on the other hand is very different, that's "v" for victory, kind of the peace sign. >> seth: sure. >> i guess it started there maybe. don't know if that's true, but yeah. >> seth: you're not an expert on this one, you're an expert on -- >> i know this one really -- [ laughter ] this originated -- >> seth: this one i'm not quite sure. it's either a v, or like a bird, but this one -- >> it's just fun to do like now, on tv. >> seth: so that, again, i feel every time i show a clip from this film i have to tell people that's gary oldman. >> yeah. >> seth: who is unrecognizable as winston churchill. were you a fan of gary's before this film? >> yeah, i think he's one of the very great actors that we have and he -- i love "true romance." that's one of my favorite movies. so to see him go from like that dreadlocked drug dealer, and then suddenly

start with the serious one, darkest hour, stars gary as winston churchill. but i think darkest hour will be finest hour. getting a lot of buzz for best actor at the oscar's. and i think actually this is going to be his year to take it. similar how did the others did. prosthetics here are some of the best i've seen. you can't tell it's gary undi but the delivery of dialogue totally becomes the character. and fascinating look in parliament of winston churchill saying you can't negotiate with hitler. i think other people in the movie, he has the line in the movie, you can't negotiate with a tiger when you have the head in its mouth. so i think it's like what we saw earlier this summer dunn kirk, so i would like to see a super cut of those two movies. let's do a darkest hour super cut. also in theaters on coimmediatic side ei con yeatanya, interesting how they recreate the figure skating. you can tell when they put the face on another figure skater. but i enjoy the movie. they show playing right to the camera and talking to the camera. kind of shows the crux try

obviously he made mistakes but he has been a force for the good just like winston churchill's son and daughter the youngest i interviewed about the clean and prince charles is very fond of prince charles and said i believe he will be in "the shining" hour of the throne. >> host: bahia is a politician. >> he is not a politician but he is a charitable entrepreneur, over the years he has been very outspoken and has tried to influence public policy. surge of the writing letters to politicians to try a and then -- persuade them with climate change and the environment and sustainability but he has done a lot to educate members of parliament what kinds of things can be done to keep them economically viable. >> host: as the head of state how would his reign be different?. >> i think we will have to see he is a different person from his mother. i've think he will speak more even though his images the structure but he is in formal up and much more constrained i don't think he would be some has predicted to be an activist came because by that very definition that means you're taking a position a

in the gloom of post—war britain, their wedding was described by sir winston churchill as a flash ofre queen, and he the dashing naval officer. in the years since he has travelled the world with her and been her companion both in public and private. injune it was illness rather than retirement which prevented the duke from being at the queen's side at the state opening of parliament. prince charles took his place. but going forward, this will become the norm and, although the palace has been keen to emphasise that for the queen it is still business as usual, the gradual transition of roles and responsibilities from one generation to the next has noticeably accelerated this year. last post sounds. most significantly in november. for the first time in her 65—year reign, the queen was present at the service of remembrance at the cenotaph, in london, but she did not lay a wreath. instead, she watched from the foreign office balcony, alongside her husband, as her son and heir laid a wreath on her behalf. the duke will continue to support the queen at events of his choosing. god save the q

of lords member michael dobbs, create aror of house of cards and author of four novels about winston churchill. this keynote address at the international churchill conference in new york city is 40 minutes. >> i would like to ask -- we have a guest speaker tonight, and i would like to ask the very beautiful, talented and brilliant lisa to come up tonight if you would. lisa is a fantastic journalist. seven years of fox news. publishes foreign desk. and she has the privilege of -- no, actually, that's wrong. lord dobbs has the privilege of being introduced by lisa. [ applause ]

the british were engaged still in the appeasement until winston churchill eight and 1940 and we were isolationists and that gave a misguided view of the strength of the united states and great britain and eventually the soviet union. and that land in 1941 to the three events that changed the course of history. i think they were the three most momentous and then they changed what we knew as the war and that was of course the soviet invasion of june 22, 1941 as well as the next day on the singapore december 7 and 8th 1941, and then the inexplicable declaration by italy and germany on december 11. and that's the point, the entire complexion of the boards were exchanged and they prided themselves on earlier probation for the verbosity and the wonderful technicians found themselves in a war they couldn't win with 170 million now against him alliance over 400 million people and they would have a prewar gdp of six or seven times larger. as historians we don't like to go back and say that was stupid. there were all sorts if you were german number japanese we don't have time to go through the

up next from the 34th annual winston churchill conference historian kevin ruane discusses , winston churchillnd the development and use of nuclear weapons. he is the author of "churchill and the bomb in war and cold war." this event from new york city is about 45 minutes. >> all right, ladies and gentlemen. welcome back. and to introduce our next speaker, we have a very special lady.

winston churchill once said that meeting jaw to jaw is better than war. north korea is a legitimate nuclear state. washington is adamant that will never happen. and with each new test, the pressure on the american president to act grows stronger. it is going to be quite chilly first thing on saturday, certainly with a good frost around. but the weather will turn milder over the next few days. by the time we get to sunday, i suspect double—figure temperatures across of the uk. at the moment there is a dip in the jetstream which brings in cold air from the north. here, we start to see a south—westerly flow of air, which will push the weather front and cloud in our direction and this area of milder air will be in place across the uk by the time we get to sunday. but saturday is still going to be quite a cold day across most of the uk. the cold snap is still not quite over. look at this. we're still getting weather watcher pictures with nice, snowy scenes across the uk, mostly across the hills now. first thing on saturday morning, a widespread frost across th

episodes in modern history and epitomizes the policy of barack obama and makes neville look like winston churchill. david: what do you make of the media ignoring it. >> i'm glad you guys are reading the mainstream media. "the washington post" and new york times has good stories about every day. but "the washington post" had a good story saying that of this 13,000 word piece in politico, that they focused on low level folks and that obama administration didn't give hezbollah a pass on this and this, after all, was the administration that got bin laden. >> e-mack, "the washington post" mentioned the story to deride it like bruce said they rely on low level officials. here is what josh meyers said. >> to say the people i quoted were low level people is sort of ridiculous. these were the people that led this task force, they were not ideologs. >> it spent months of meticulous reporting. >> i read "the washington post" and the new york times every day and it was deeply reported. politico is standing by it, he used deep sourcing, court records, government documents and he noticed, you could say what you