Into the Storm: Leadership Lessons From Winston Churchill

Pajamas Media ^ | May 31 | Jim Kearney

[AJKauf]

HBO’s Into the Storm, dramatizing Winston Churchill’s leadership during World War II, deserves close study from our statesmen, their spouses, and anyone with questions about the stakes and requirements of warfare. This Churchill, portrayed brilliantly by Irish actor Brendan Gleeson, is an unapologetic conservative, a tenacious dynamo whose rhetoric and resolve protected Britain and the West from submission to tyranny.

We pick up Churchill where HBO’s Emmy-winning 2002 film The Gathering Storm left off. Hitler appeaser Neville Chamberlain has been discredited, and Churchill takes over as prime minister. After the successful retreat of the British Army from Dunkirk, France, Churchill imparts lesson one for today’s leaders: tell the whole truth. Noting the heroics of hundreds of merchant seamen and small craft pilots who helped the Royal Navy save 335,000 from the jaws of death, Churchill reminds Britain that “wars are not won by evacuation.” He refuses to minimize the underlying truth: the Dunkirk retreat came at the end of a colossal military disaster...

[Starboard]

Great stuff. Thanks for posting.

[tippytoes]

Thanks for the heads up. It comes on tonight and I plan to watch it. Did you see The Gathering Storm? I plan to order that on DVD.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

I've seen both. The "Wilderness Years" is far superior for serious students of Churchill.

[aShepard]

Here’s a little Sir Winston quote that 0 should enjoy:

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings.

The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.”

[LucyT]

"The only thing we learn from history is that we never learn from history."

-- Sir Winston Churchill

“It is no use saying we are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”

-- Sir Winston Churchill

[kalee]

ping

[txroadkill]

Just watched it, outstanding.