The work of Benedictine priest, theologian, and world-renowned physicist Stanley Jaki is given its first systematic study here inCreation and Scientific Creativity. Haffner also provides a full bibliography of over three decades of Jaki’s scholarship, along with a comprehensive overview of Jaki’s life and career.

Mustard Seeds is the journal of a remarkable spiritual odyssey, the origin and destination points of which are identified in the volume’s subtitle. By the mid-1960s, Brent Bozell had contributed as much any individual to the conservative movement’s capture of the Republican Party. But long before that movement’s apogee in the 1980s, Bozell had moved on, discovering that his Catholic faith demanded more than conservatism could accommodate. The writings gathered here demonstrate Bozell’s extraordinary honesty and courage.

English historian and Christian humanist Christopher Dawson stood at the very center of the Catholic literary and intellectual revival in the four decades preceding Vatican II. One can find his influence throughout the twentieth-century Catholic Right. Poet and social critic T. S. Eliot considered him the foremost thinker of his generation, and the founder of American conservatism, Russell Kirk, wrote that he had been “saturated in Dawsonian historical studies [and] my own books reflect Dawson’s concepts.”

Dawson’s reputation declined dramatically during the cultural shifts accompanying Vatican II, and few remembered the English Catholic in the final decades of the twentieth century. A revival of interest of Dawson and his body of work increased dramatically in the last years of John Paul II’s and the beginning of Benedict’s pontificates. This book offers the first study of Dawson’s life and thought as a whole. It is especially poignant as a post–9/11 reexamination of the meaning of Western civilization.

Sanctifying the World was named by biographer Joseph Pearce as the best book of 2008 and the National Catholic Register named it one of the top eleven books of the year.

Bradley J. Birzer holds the Russell Amos Kirk Chair in History at Hillsdale College and is the author of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Sanctifying Myth.

The tragic conflict between men of faith and men of science has its origins in a false notion of history: a notion that the Middle Ages stultified scientific exploration and scholarship. French scientist Pierre Duhem dedicated his life to examining this problem. For years, however, his works were inaccessible to English- speaking scholars. Stanley Jaki makes available for the first time a systematic treatment of Duhem’s work along with twenty seven selections (in English translation) from his writings. This book is a powerful testimony to the unity of faith and reason.

Publication Date: July 2010

This sixth and most important volume of Sir Martin Gilbert’s authorized biography of Winston Churchill, The Finest Hour probes beneath the surface of each of the crucial decisions in which Churchill was involved from the outbreak of war in September 1939 to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941.

Drawing on a remarkable diversity of material—including government records, Churchill’s own vast archive of private letters, and the recollections of those who worked with him—Gilbert reveals for the first time the full extent of Churchill’s personal contribution to every aspect of the struggle.

The Finest Hour is an account that is intensely human, yet keeps the wider perspective in view, while allowing the reader rare insight into the daily burdens of Britain’s war leader. 

Sir Martin Gilbert was born in England in 1936.  He is a graduate of Oxford University, from which he holds a Doctorate of Letters, and is an Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. In 1962 he began work as one of Randolph Churchill’s research assistants, and in 1968, after Randolph Churchill’s death, he became the official biographer of Winston Churchill.  Since then he has published six volumes of the Churchill biography, and has edited – to date – twelve volumes of Churchill documents.  As a Distinguished Fellow at Hillsdale College, Michigan, he is currently completing the Churchill document volumes.

During forty-eight years of research and writing, Sir Martin has published eighty books, including The First World War, The Second World War, The Somme: The Heroism and Horror of War, D-Day, The Day the War Ended, and a three-volume History of the Twentieth Century.  He has also written, as part of his series of ten historical atlases, Atlas of the First World War, and, most recently, Atlas of the Second World War.

Sir Martin’s film and television work has included a documentary series on the life of Winston Churchill.  His other published works include Churchill: A Photographic Portrait, In Search of Churchill, Churchill and America, and the single volume Churchill, A Life.

The fifth volume of the official biography of Winston S. Churchill opens with Churchill’s return to Conservatism and to the Cabinet in 1924, and, as the story unfolds, presents a vivid and intimate picture both of his public life and of his private world and Chartwell between wars.

As Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1924 to 1929, Churchill pursued a humane and constructive social policy, including the introduction of pensions for widows and orphans. The controversial return to the gold standard is examined here on the basis of new evidence; so too are Churchill’s efforts after the General Strike to bring peace to the coal industry. In 1927 Churchill planned and fought for a massive attack on unemployment. He was helped in his task by a young Tory MP, Harold Macmillan, in whom he confided.

In this volume Martin Gilbert strips away decades of accumulated myth and innuendo, showing Churchill’s true position on India, his precise role (and private thoughts) during the abdication of Edward VIII, his attitude toward Mussolini, and his profound fears for the future of European democracy. Even before Hitler came to power in Germany, Churchill saw in full the dangers of a Nazi victory. And despite the unpopularity of his views in official circles, for six years he persevered in his warnings.

This book reveal for the first time the extent to which senior civil servants, and even serving officers of high rand, came to Churchill with secret information, having despaired at the extent of official lethargy and obstruction. Within the Air Ministry, the Foreign Office, and the Intelligence Services, individuals felt drawn to go to Churchill with full disclosures of Britain’s defense weakness and kept him informed of day-to-day developments from 1934 until the outbreak of war. As war approached, people of all parties and in all walks of life recognized Churchill’s unique qualities and demanded his inclusion in the government, believing that he alone could give a divided nation guidance and inspiration.

Sir Martin Gilbert was born in England in 1936.  He is a graduate of Oxford University, from which he holds a Doctorate of Letters, and is an Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. In 1962 he began work as one of Randolph Churchill’s research assistants, and in 1968, after Randolph Churchill’s death, he became the official biographer of Winston Churchill.  Since then he has published six volumes of the Churchill biography, and has edited – to date – twelve volumes of Churchill documents.  As a Distinguished Fellow at Hillsdale College, Michigan, he is currently completing the Churchill document volumes.

During forty-eight years of research and writing, Sir Martin has published eighty books, including The First World War, The Second World War, The Somme: The Heroism and Horror of War, D-Day, The Day the War Ended, and a three-volume History of the Twentieth Century.  He has also written, as part of his series of ten historical atlases, Atlas of the First World War, and, most recently, Atlas of the Second World War.

Sir Martin’s film and television work has included a documentary series on the life of Winston Churchill.  His other published works include Churchill: A Photographic Portrait, In Search of Churchill, Churchill and America, and the single volume Churchill, A Life.

Winston S. Churchill: World In Torment, 1916-1922 is the fourth volume of the definitive biography of Winston S. Churchill. Covering the years 1917 to 1922, Martin Gilbert’s fascinating account carefully traces Churchill’s wide-ranging activities and shows how, by his persuasive oratory, administrative skill, and masterful contributions to Cabinet discussions, Churchill regained, only a few years after the disaster of Dardanelles, a leading position in British political life.

There are many dramatic and controversial episodes: the German breakthrough on the Western Front in March 1918, the anti-Bolshevik Intervention in 1919, negotiating the Irish Treaty, consolidating the Jewish National Home in Palestine, and the Chanak crisis with Turkey.  In all these, and many other events, Churchill’s leading role is explained and illuminated in Martin Gilbert’s precise, masterful style.

The Churchill who emerges from these pages is a complex, gifted, energetic, troubled man who made a forceful impact on his contemporaries; a man whose remarkable skills were admired by his colleagues, but who often angered – even maddened – them by what he said and did.

In a moving final chapter, covering a period when Churchill was without a seat in Parliament for the first time since 1900, Martin Gilbert brilliantly draws together the many strands of time in Churchill’s life when his political triumphs were overshadowed by personal sorrows, by his increasingly somber reflections on the backward march of nations and society, and by his stark forecasts of dangers to come.

Sir Martin Gilbert was born in England in 1936.  He is a graduate of Oxford University, from which he holds a Doctorate of Letters, and is an Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. In 1962 he began work as one of Randolph Churchill’s research assistants, and in 1968, after Randolph Churchill’s death, he became the official biographer of Winston Churchill.  Since then he has published six volumes of the Churchill biography, and has edited – to date – twelve volumes of Churchill documents.  As a Distinguished Fellow at Hillsdale College, Michigan, he is currently completing the Churchill document volumes.

During forty-eight years of research and writing, Sir Martin has published eighty books, including The First World War, The Second World War, The Somme: The Heroism and Horror of War, D-Day, The Day the War Ended, and a three-volume History of the Twentieth Century.  He has also written, as part of his series of ten historical atlases, Atlas of the First World War, and, most recently, Atlas of the Second World War.

Sir Martin’s film and television work has included a documentary series on the life of Winston Churchill.  His other published works include Churchill: A Photographic Portrait, In Search of Churchill, Churchill and America, and the single volume Churchill, A Life.

Volume II of the magisterial eight-volume biography of Winston S. Churchill takes Churchill’s story from his entry to Parliament in 1901 to the outbreak of war in 1914.  When he took his seat in the House of Commons he was twenty-six years old.  An independent spirit and rebel, on his maiden speech he was cheered by the Leader of the Opposition.

On May 31, 1904, three years after entering Parliament, Churchill joined the Liberals.  In December 1905 he entered the government as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies.  In April 1908 he joined the Cabinet as the President of the Board of Trade.  On September 12, 1908 he married Miss Clementine Hozier.  Their daughter Diana was born in 1909 and their son Randolph in 1911.

In the years leading up to the First World War, Churchill was at the center of British political life and change.  At the Home Office he introduced substantial prison reforms and took a lead in curbing the powers of the House of Lords.  At the Admiralty from 1911 he helped build the Royal Navy into a formidable fighting force.  He learned to fly and founded the Royal Naval Air Service.  He was active in attempts to resolve the Irish Question and to prevent civil war in Ireland.

In 1914, as war in Europe loomed, Churchill wrote to his wife from the Admiralty: “The preparations have a hideous fascination for me, yet I would do my best for peace and nothing would induce me wrongfully to strike the blow.  I cannot feel that we in this island are in any serious degree responsible for the wave of madness which has swept over the mind of Christendom.”

When war came, the fleet was ready.  It was one of Churchill’s greatest achievements.

Randolph S. Churchill, the only son of Winston Churchill, was born on May 28, 1911.  Educated at Eton and Christ Church Oxford, he became a widely read journalist in the 1930s, reporting at first hand on the German elections of 1932 and warning of Hitler’s military ambitions.  In the 1930s he fought three vigorous but unsuccessful campaigns to enter Parliament.  In the Second World War he served as an intelligence officer at General Headquarters, Middle East, and in the Special Forces in the Western Desert.  In 1944 he volunteered to the parachute behind enemy lines to serve as a liaison officer with the Yugoslav partisans.  For his war services, he was awarded the MBE (Military).  For the five war years he was a Member of Parliament for Preston.  He was three more times an unsuccessful candidate – in 1945, 1950, and 1951.  Between 1938 and 1961 he edited six volumes of his father’s speeches.  His own books include The Rise and Fall of Sir Anthony Eden; Lord Derby, King of Lancashire; The Six Day War, a history of the six-day Arab-Israeli war of 1967, written with his son, Winston; and the first two main and five document volumes of the biography of his father: Youth, 1874-1900 and Young Statesman, 1901-1914.  A trustee of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust and an Honorary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, Randolph Churchill died at his home Stour, East Bergholt, Suffolk, on June 6, 1968.

In the definitive biography of Sir Winston Churchill, of which this is the first of eight volumes, Randolph Churchill – and later Sir Martin Gilbert, who took up the work following Randolph’s death in 1968 – had the full use of Sir Winston’s letters and papers, and also carried out research in many hundreds of private archives and public collections.  The form in which the work is cast is summed up in the phrase that Randolph quotes from Lockhart: “He shall be his own biographer.”  The subject is presented, as far as possible, through his own words, though never neglecting the words of his contemporaries, both friends and critics.

Volume I, first published in 1966, covers the years from Churchill’s birth in 1874 to his return to England from an American lecture tour, on the day of Queen Victoria’s funeral in 1900, in order to embark on his political career.  In the opening pages, the account of his birth is presented through letters of his family.  The subject comes on the scene with his own words in a letter to his mother, written when he was seven.  His later letters, as a child, as a schoolboy at Harrow, as a cadet at Sandhurst, and as a subaltern in India, show the development of his mind and character, his ambition and awakening interests, which were to merge into a genius of our age.

The narrative surrounding these letters presents facts relevant to Sir Winston and other personalities discussed, and fills in the historical background of the last quarter of the nineteenth century.  Here is all the excitement of the beginning of the extraordinary career of greatest statesman of the twentieth century.

Randolph S. Churchill, the only son of Winston Churchill, was born on May 28, 1911.  Educated at Eton and Christ Church Oxford, he became a widely read journalist in the 1930s, reporting at first hand on the German elections of 1932 and warning of Hitler’s military ambitions.  In the 1930s he fought three vigorous but unsuccessful campaigns to enter Parliament.  In the Second World War he served as an intelligence officer at General Headquarters, Middle East, and in the Special Forces in the Western Desert.  In 1944 he volunteered to the parachute behind enemy lines to serve as a liaison officer with the Yugoslav partisans.  For his war services, he was awarded the MBE (Military).  For the five war years he was a Member of Parliament for Preston.  He was three more times an unsuccessful candidate – in 1945, 1950, and 1951.  Between 1938 and 1961 he edited six volumes of his father’s speeches.  His own books include The Rise and Fall of Sir Anthony Eden; Lord Derby, King of Lancashire; The Six Day War, a history of the six-day Arab-Israeli war of 1967, written with his son, Winston; and the first two main and five document volumes of the biography of his father: Youth, 1874-1900 and Young Statesman, 1901-1914.  A trustee of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust and an Honorary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, Randolph Churchill died at his home Stour, East Bergholt, Suffolk, on June 6, 1968.