Every week, Hillsdale College President Larry Arne joins Hugh Hewitt to discuss great books,

great men, and great ideas. This is Hillsdale Dialogues, part of the Hillsdale College

Podcast Network. More episodes at podcast.

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Morning, glory, evening, Grace, America.

I'm Hugh at the Hillsdale Dialogues are here.

You know that from the music.

All things Hillsdale at Hilsdale.edu. Dr. Larry Arne is with me today. In the last previous Hillsdale

Dialogue, it was the first in our series on these six books. Winston Churchill's six volume

history of World War II. And for the second week in a row,

I have dropped it as I lifted it because it's a heavy thing.

I'm using the paperback because it's easier for me to annotate,

though it's quite a successful book.

Dr. Ron, to start here, we forgot to mention, I forgot to mention last week.

Winston Churchill wrote 43 of his books.

It contained 70 volumes.

You and I have covered for the Hillsdale Dialogues,

the story of the Malacan Field Force, which he wrote in 1898,

the River War, which he wrote in 1890,

the World Crisis, the six-volume history of World War I, which was first published between 1923 and 31.

We covered my early life, which was translated into 19 languages, a great adventure story.

One of his opponents had like a giant caraff of champagne, my early life, 1937 through great contemporaries.

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