History Happy Hour

This week on History Happy Hour: Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle were thrown together by challenges of war. They did not always get along, but nevertheless found a way to work together – personifying resistance to Adolph Hitler during WWII and for years beyond. But that is only a small part of a complex story. Both men influenced their countries, and the world around them, long after the war was won.

This week, Chris and Rick talk with Richard Vinen, author of the new joint biography The Last Titans: How Churchill and de Gaulle Saved Their Nations and Transformed the World.

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Richard Vinen is a professor of history at Kings College London. He was previously a fellow of Trinity College Cambridge and, an archive by-fellow at Churchill College Cambridge. He has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The London Review of Books, The Boston Globe, and others. He has appeared frequently on radio and television. He has published widely on British, French, and European history and his book “National Service: Conscription in Britain, 1945–1963” won the Wolfson prize for history in 2015.