News From the Front
BANNED BOOKS WEEK 2025
We honor Banned Books Week (October 5-12) by donating one dollar from every sale to PEN America in support of their Banned Books Week fight for the freedom to read whatever you (and your children) want to read. We are also donating actual banned books to Little Free Libraries—book-sharing boxes placed in neighborhoods around the country—in states where these books are being banned. ~Join us!
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CHURCHILL IN OCTOBER
We continue our appreciation of Churchill by-the-month with a look at what Winston Churchill achieved in the month of October over the course of his expansive career.
Plus “Banned Book Week” at Chartwell Booksellers.
CHURCHILL IN SEPTEMBER
The response to our “Churchill in August” post was so… responsive, that we now bring you, by acclamation, Churchill in September, a look at what Winston Churchill accomplished in the month of September over the long course of his career (a good deal of it involving Chartwell, as it happens).
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CHURCHILL IN AUGUST, ONCE MORE
Celebrate Churchill and the month of August by looking at all that Winston Churchill accomplished in August over the course of his long career; Malakand, First Cigar Order, Diana, North America Tour and “The Few.”
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HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY FROM CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS!
July brings the 4th and, with it, an increasingly urgent question: How, in these disconcerting times, do we celebrate America’s 249th Independence Day in the spirit of Winston Churchill?
The answer, very hopefully, is in these books…
JUNE BRINGS D-DAY, OF COURSE
June is, of course, the month of the Normandy invasion; June 6, 1944. Churchill visited the beaches at Normandy twice, the first time on June 12 (D-Day + 6), the second on July 22, after which he was driven by Field Marshall Montgomery in his car across the River Orne. A photograph of this journey, signed by them both, is on display here at the store. The car has quite a story too.
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MAY BRINGS CHURCHILL AS P.M.
Winston Churchill rose to become Britain’s wartime Prime Minister on May 10, 1940. From his first day in charge, onwards to victory (on May 8, 1945, VE Day), Churchill’s profoundly humane spirit led the British people, and the world, through World War II. It is more vital now than ever to recall how Churchill stood up to Fascism by appealing to the best in all of us, not the worst.
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APRIL BRINGS OUR 42ND BIRTHDAY!
April 11 was Chartwell Booksellers’ 42nd Birthday. We were delighted to celebrate a few days early with cake, champagne and author Thomas Maier, reading from his excellent new book: “THE INVISIBLE SPY:Churchill’s Rockefeller Center Spy Ring and America’s First Secret Agent of World War II.”
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CELEBRATE “THE INVISIBLE SPY”
Join us for an afternoon celebration with THOMAS MAIER reading from his new book, “THE INVISIBLE SPY: Churchill’s Rockefeller Center Spy Ring and America’s First Secret Agent of World War II.” THURSDAY, APRIL 3 @ 1:00pm. in our lobby.
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MARCH BRINGS ADOLF HITLER
Last year, Timothy Reback published the most timely book of the year, “TAKEOVER: Hitler’s Final Rise To Power.” Recently, Mr. Ryback expanded upon “TAKEOVER” in an article for The Atlantic magazine: “HOW HITLER DISMANTLED A DEMOCRACY IN 53 DAYS: He Used the Constitution to Shatter the Constitution.”
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FEBRUARY BRINGS THE ABRIDGED “WORLD CRISIS” AND A NEW ART EXHIBIT
February is the publication anniversary of the abridged edition of Churchill’s 6-volume history of the First World War, “The World Crisis.” Abridgment (by Churchill himself) rendered it far more accessible to a wider readership. We thought we would commemorate this by also celebrating the restored accessibility of our lobby gallery with “PETER CLANCY: A Retrospective.”
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The scholar and the publisher who together returned Winston Churchill’s “The River War” to us five years ago, richly annotated and fully restored to its original unabridged, two-volume fecundity, are back with a new title: Churchill’s beloved “MY EARLY LIFE: A Roving Commission,” his only volume of personal memoirs.
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