Erik Larson Quote
Churchill acknowledged Fisher’s energy and prior genius. But he was seventy-four years old, Churchill wrote, in an oblique evisceration. As in a great castle which has long contended with time, the mighty central mass of the donjon towered up intact and seemingly everlasting. But the outworks and the battlements had fallen away, and its imperious ruler dwelt only in the special apartments and corridors with which he had a lifelong familiarity. This, however, was exactly what Churchill had hoped for in bringing Fisher back as First Sea Lord. I took him because I knew he was old and weak, and that I should be able to keep things in my own hands.
Erik Larson
Churchill acknowledged Fisher’s energy and prior genius. But he was seventy-four years old, Churchill wrote, in an oblique evisceration. As in a great castle which has long contended with time, the mighty central mass of the donjon towered up intact and seemingly everlasting. But the outworks and the battlements had fallen away, and its imperious ruler dwelt only in the special apartments and corridors with which he had a lifelong familiarity. This, however, was exactly what Churchill had hoped for in bringing Fisher back as First Sea Lord. I took him because I knew he was old and weak, and that I should be able to keep things in my own hands.
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