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    Punch Drunk

    Aug 02, 2022 1 minute
    Review by David Freeman

    Gary L. Stiles, Churchill in Punch, Unicorn, 2022, 520 pages, £50/$75. ISBN 978–1914414138

    This is the book you want for Christmas. International Churchill Society member Gary L. Stiles has completed a labor of love that collects, Britain’s premier humor magazine, from his first appearance as a newly-elected member of Parliament in 1900 to his death in 1965—more than 600 altogether.

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