NOTES ON SOURCES
1. THE OFFER FROM HITLER
‘The Prime Minister said . . . into this position’ Cabinet meeting minutes, 28 May 1940, confidential annex; CAB 65/13. See also John Lukacs, Five Days in London, May 1940 (New Haven, Conn.: 1999).
‘The gist . . . destroyed our aircraft factories’ Cabinet meeting minutes, 28 May 1940, confidential annex; CAB 65/13.
‘tender to the Nazis’ Lady Nelly Cecil; Lynne Olson, Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England (London: 2008), p. 66.
Hitler was a ‘born leader’ Lloyd George, The Daily Express, 17 September 1936.
‘a man of his supreme quality . . . today’ Lloyd George to T. Phillip Cornwell-Evans, 1937; William Manchester, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Alone: 1932–1940 (London: 1988), p. 82.
‘If Hitler did not exist . . . champion’ Ward Price, Daily Mail, 21 September 1936; also see Olson, Troublesome Young Men, p. 123.
‘frightful rot’ Lord Halifax Diary, 27 May 1940; see Andrew Roberts, ‘The Holy Fox’: The Life of Lord Halifax (London: 2011), p. 221.
‘I have thought . . . immense reserves and advantages’ Hugh Dalton, Memoirs: The Fateful Years, 1931–1945 (London: 1957), pp. 335–36.
‘Holy Fox’ See Roberts, ‘The Holy Fox.’
2. THE NON-CHURCHILL UNIVERSE
‘like to see as the culmination . . . English people’ Lord Halifax, July 1938 (date unconfirmed); John Lukacs, Five Days in London, May 1940 (New Haven, Conn.: 1999), p. 64.
‘Democracy is finished in England’ Joe Kennedy, Boston Globe, 10 November 1940.
nightmarish structure . . .had been expelled Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich (London: 1970).
deportation meant liquidation See Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (London: 1963); David Cesarani, Becoming Eichmann: Rethinking the Life, Crimes and Trial of a “Desk Murderer” (Boston: 2006).
‘the abyss of a new Dark Age . . . perverted science’ Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 18 June 1940; Hansard, HC Deb, vol. 362, cc51–64; http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1940/jun/18/war-situation.
the worst system . . . except for all the others Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 11 November 1947; Robert Rhodes James, ed., Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897–1963, vol. 7 (1974), p. 7566.
Hitler’s Operation Sea Lion . . . British population Otto Brautigam, So hat es sich zugetragen: Ein Leben als Soldat und Diplomat (Wurzburg: 1968), p. 590.
3. ROGUE ELEPHANT
‘I shan’t last long’ Winston Churchill, 13 May 1940; Norman Rose, Churchill: The Unruly Giant (London: 1995), p. 327.
‘sullen silence’ Lynne Olson, Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England (London: 2008), p. 330.
‘WC they regard . . . feel about it’ Nancy Dugdale; Andrew Roberts, Eminent Churchillians (London: 2010), ebook edition.
‘glamour boys’ David Margesson coined the phrase. See Graham Stewart, Burying Caesar: The Churchill-Chamberlain Rivalry (London: 2003).
‘rogue elephant’ Lord Hankey to Samuel Hoare, 12 May 1940; HNKY 4/32, Hankey Papers, Churchill College, Cambridge.
‘oozes with port . . . cigar’ Lord Halifax; Julian Jackson, The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940 (London: 2004), p. 210.
‘fat baby’ Lady Alexandra Metcalf; Roberts, Eminent Churchillians, Kindle edition.
‘Is there no poverty at home?’ Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 13 May 1901; Virginia Cowles, Winston Churchill: The Era and the Man (London: 1953), p. 86.
‘My prognostication . . . at the Election’ See Martin Gilbert, Churchill: A Life (New York: 1991), p. 169.
‘Blenheim rat’ Rose, Unruly Giant, p. 66.
‘I am an English Liberal . . . methods’ Winston Churchill to Hugh Cecil, 24 October 1903 (letter not sent); R. C. Kemper, ed., Winston Churchill: Resolution, Defiance, Magnanimity, Good Will (Columbia, Mo.: 1996), p. 145.
Oscar Wilde variety Papers on WSC’s successful libel action against A. C. Bruce-Pryce, CHAR1/17, Churchill Papers.
‘I understand what the photographer . . . gentleman doing’ A. J. Balfour; Roy Jenkins, Churchill: A Biography (London: 2001), p. 145.
‘man enveloped in a cloak . . . looked satisfied’ Rose, Unruly Giant, p. 136.
‘unfit for the office he now holds’ Jenkins, Churchill, p. 251.
‘half-naked fakir’ Winston Churchill, ‘A Seditious Middle Temple Lawyer’ Speech at Winchester House, 23 Febuary 1931, Robert Rhodes James, ed., Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897–1963 (New York: 1974), pp. 4982–6.
‘wonderfully pretty and very healthy’ Lord Randolph to Mrs Leonard Jerome, 30 November 1874, Randolph Churchill, Winston S. Churchill: Youth, 1874–1900 (London: 1966), p. 1.
‘pantherine’ Mary Lovell, The Churchills: A Family at the Heart of History (London: 2011), p. 65.
‘She shone for me . . . at a distance’ Winston Churchill, My Early Life (London: 1996 edition), p. 28.
‘Papa’ . . . ‘Father’ is better’ Lord Randolph Churchill to Winston Churchill, 13 June 1894; CHAR 1/2/83.
‘become a mere social wastrel . . . existence’ Lord Randolph Churchill to Winston Churchill, 9 August 1893; CHAR 1/2/66–68.
‘young stupid’ . . . ‘not to be trusted’ Lord Randolph Churchill to Winston Churchill, 21 April 1894; CHAR 1/2/78.
Recent scholarship See John H. Mather, ‘Lord Randolph Churchill: Maladies Et Mort’, The Churchill Centre, http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/myths/myths/his-father-died-of-syphilis. Accessed 26 August 2014.
‘He is completely untrustworthy . . . before him’ Lord Derby to Lloyd George, August 1916; Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 365.
‘cheap fellows’ Teddy Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt Jr, 23 May 1908; Theodore Roosevelt Papers, Manuscripts division, Library of Congress. Martin Gilbert, Churchill and America (London: 2005), p. 50.
4. THE RANDOLPH FACTOR
‘Of course you are too old. . . name for yourself’ Winston Churchill, ‘The Dream’; Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 8: ‘Never Despair’ 1945–1965 (London: 1988), pp. 364–72.
‘Stop that now . . . snub-nose radical!’ Lady Randolph to Lord Randolph Churchill, 15 February 1886; CHAR 28/100/12–14.
‘He has much smartened up . . . wonders for him’ Lord Randolph Churchill, 23 October 1893; Norman Rose, Churchill: The Unruly Giant (London: 1995), p. 29.
‘Since I have been in parliament . . . to do so’ Lord Randolph Churchill to Sir Stafford Northcote, 3 March 1883; Winston Churchill, Lord Randolph Churchill (New York: 1907), p. 192.
‘looking down on the Front Benches . . . sublime’ Sir Stafford Northcote, ibid., p. 177.
‘opportunism, mostly’ John Charmley, A History of Conservative Politics Since 1830 (London: 2008), p. 59.
‘Little Randy’ . . . they cried’ Mary Lovell, The Churchills: In Love and War (London: 2012), p. 88.
‘an old man in a hurry’ Lord Randolph Churchill, 1886; Winston Churchill, Lord Randolph Churchill, p. 860.
‘the forest laments . . . perspire’ Winston Churchill, Lord Randolph Churchill, p. 229.
‘I always believed . . . mantle of Elijah’ Winston Churchill, ‘The Dream’, Gilbert, Churchill, vol.8, ‘Never Despair’, pp. 364–72.
‘I still have my father’s robes’ Rose, Unruly Giant, p. 287.
‘I had forgotten Goschen’ Anne Sebba, American Jennie: The Remarkable Life of Lady Randolph Churchill (London: 2010), p. 158.
‘What Price Churchill?’ Rose, Unruly Giant, p. 287.
‘We must have a new Prime Minister . . . must be you” Lynne Olson, Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England (London: 2008), p. 298.
‘I felt . . . this hour and this trial’ Winston Churchill, 10 May 1940; Martin Gilbert, Churchill: A Life (New York: 1991), p. 645.
5. NO ACT TOO DARING OR TOO NOBLE
‘She is out of control’ Winston Churchill, ‘In the Air’, CHAR 8/319.
‘This is very likely death’ Ibid.
‘We are in the Stephenson age . . . value to our country’ Winston Churchill said this to his pilot, Ivon Courtney; Martin Gilbert, Churchill: A Life (New York: 1991), p. 248.
one flight in five thousand See Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 248.
‘I do not suppose . . . wrong of you’ Sunny Marlborough to Winston Churchill, March 1913; Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 248.
‘foolish’ . . . ‘unfair to his family’ F. E. Smith to Winston Churchill, 6 December 1913; Michael Sheldon, Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill (London: 2013), p. 294.
His cousin . . . ‘evil’ Lady Londonderry to Winston Churchill, July 1919; Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 414.
‘I have been very naughty . . . flying’ Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill, 29 November 1913; Mary Soames, Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage (London: 2003), p. 116.
‘I started Winston . . . practice’ Captain Gilbert Lushington to Miss Hynes, 30 November 1913; Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 252.
an eerie letter . . . doomed flight For correspondence, see Martin Gilbert, In Search of Churchill (London: 1995 edition), pp. 28–84.
He was constantly nipping . . . presentiments of doom See Winston Churchill, Thoughts and Adventures: Churchill Reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Flying, and the Future (London: 1949), pp. 133–49.
‘within a foot of my head’ Douglas Russell, Winston Churchill: Soldier—The Military Life of a Gentleman at War (London: 2005), p. 121.
‘The bullets . . . our heads’ Winston Churchill, My Early Life: A Roving Commission (New York: 1930), p. 84.
‘I cannot be certain . . . they fell’ Norman Rose, Churchill: The Unruly Giant (London: 1995), p. 47.
‘I rode my grey pony . . . too noble’ Winston Churchill to Lady Randolph Churchill, 22 December 1897; Randolph Churchill, Winston S. Churchill: Youth, 1874–1900 (London: 1966), p. 350.
The Dervishes . . . twelve deep For Churchill’s account, see Winston Churchill, ‘The Sensations of a Calvary Charge’, My Early Life, pp. 182–96.
‘rode up to individuals . . . one very doubtful’ Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 97.
‘the most dangerous . . . to see’ Winston Churchill to Ian Hamilton, 16 Sept 1898; BRDW V 1/1, Broadwater Collection, Churchill College, Cambridge.
He later cycled . . . Diamond Hill See Winston Churchill, The Boer War: London to Ladysmith via Pretoria and Ian Hamilton’s March (London: 2008 edition), p. 287.
served with the troops . . . hear them talking See A. Dewar-Gibb, ‘Captain X’, With Winston Churchill at the Front (London: 1924).
‘Being in many ways . . . personal courage’ Winston Churchill to Jack Churchill, 02 December 1897; CHAR 28/152A/122.
6. THE GREAT DICTATOR
‘Master of sham-Augustan prose’ Martin Stannard, Evelyn Waugh (London: 2013), p. 440.
‘No specific literary talent . . . self-expression’ Geoffrey Wheatcroft, ‘Winston Churchill, the Author of Victory,’ review of Peter Clarke, Mr. Churchill’s Profession: Statesman, Orator, Writer’ in Times Literary Supplement, 18 July 2012.
‘Shifty barrister’s case . . . literature’ Evelyn Waugh, Letters of Evelyn Waugh (London: 2010), p. 627.
‘He had an ignorance . . . staggering proportions’ J. H. Plumb, taken from Michael Cohen, Churchill and the Jews, 1900–1948 (London: 2013), p. 4.
‘Curiously old-fashioned . . . 5th avenue’ See J. H. Plumb, ‘The Historian,’ in A.J.P. Taylor et al., eds., Churchill: Four Faces and the Man (London: 1969), p. 130.
‘Rarely can an author’s . . . 1953’ Peter Clarke, ‘Prologue,’ Mr. Churchill’s Profession: Statesman, Orator, Writer (London: 2012), p. ix.
‘It was from the very beginning . . . double sixes again’ Winston Churchill, ‘The Morning Post’, from F. Woods, ed., Winston S. Churchill: War Correspondent, 1895–1900, pp. 300–2.
His description . . . 400 yards a day Winston Churchill, 10 September 1898, Camp Omdurman; Woods, War Correspondent, pp. 143–47.
‘the wounded dervishes . . . ridiculous’ Winston Churchill, The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan, vol. II (London: 1899), p. 225.
‘financially it is ruinous . . . a blunder’ Winston Churchill to Lady Randolph, 21 October 1897. C.V. I, part 2, p. 807.
‘It is with regret . . . barbarism unrelieved’ Winston Churchill, dispatch from Nowshera, 16 October 1897, in Woods, War Correspondent, p. 85.
‘Hope . . . he won’t write’ Lady Jeune to H. Kitchener, 1898; Martin Gilbert, Churchill: A Life (New York: 1991), p. 90.
‘cannot really tell lies’ Norman Rose, Churchill: The Unruly Giant (London: 1995), p. 154.
his first ever essay at Harrow Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 19.
‘suspiciously round’ Roy Jenkins, Churchill: A Biography (New York: 2001), p. 80.
his income from writing Clarke, Mr. Churchill’s Profession, Appendix: ‘Churchill and the British Tax System’.
‘The old Whig claptrap . . . chapter’ J. H. Plumb, The Making of an Historian: The Collected Essays of J. H. Plumb (New York: 1988), p. 240.
‘The past is a pasteboard . . . signpost the future’ J. H. Plumb, quoted in A.J.P. Taylor, Churchill Revised: A Critical Assessment (London: 1969), p. 169.
7. HE MOBILISED THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
‘I thank the House for having listened to me’ For the entire ordeal, see Virginia Cowles, Churchill: The Era and the Man (London: 1953), p. 102; Martin Gilbert, Churchill: A Life (New York: 1991), p. 163.
‘defective cerebration’ Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 164.
‘Ladies . . . I stand for liberty!’ Douglas Russell, Winston Churchill, Soldier: The Military Life of a Gentleman at War (London: 2005), p. 65. See also Cowles, Churchill: The Era and the Man, p. 40. However, Churchill himself says that ‘no very accurate report of my words has been preserved.’ Winston Churchill, My Early Life: A Roving Commission (New York: 1930), p. 71.
‘Sometimes a slight . . . attention of the audience’ See Winston Churchill, ‘The Scaffolding of Rhetoric,’ November 1897, https://www.winstonchurchill.org/images/pdfs/for_educators/THE_SCAFFOLDING_OF_RHETORIC.pdf. Accessed 29 August 2014.
‘The cheers become louder . . . all direction’ Ibid.
‘scholarly and limp’ Michael Sheldon, The Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill (London: 2014), p. 31.
‘Mr Churchill does not inherit . . . help him’ H. W. Massingham, The Daily News; Roy Jenkins, Churchill: A Biography (New York: 2001), p. 75.
‘Mr. Churchill and oratory . . . ever will be’ Quoted from Richard Toye, The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Winston Churchill’s World War Two Speeches (London: 2013), p. 18.
‘What was there to say . . . a coward’ Winston Churchill, Savrola: A Tale of Revolution in Laurania (London: 1897), pp. 88–91.
‘rhetorician . . . influence crowds’ Colin Cross, ed., Life with Lloyd George: The Diary of A. J. Sylvester, 1931–45 (London: 1975), p. 148.
‘Winston is not yet . . . said’ Edwin Montagu to H. H. Asquith, 20 January 1909; Toye, Roar of the Lion, p. 21.
‘I do not care . . . words produce’ Winston Churchill to Lady Randolph Churchill, 1898, quoted from Norman Rose, Churchill: An Unruly Life (New York: 1998), p. 45.
‘terminological inexactitude’ Winston Churchill, 22 February 1906, Hansard, HC Deb, vol. 152, cc531–86.
‘foul race . . . their due’ Jock Colville, Fringes of Power: Downing Street Diaries 1939–1955 (London: 2004), p. 563.
‘Rallied . . . despised his orations’ Evelyn Waugh to Ann Flemming, 27 January 1965; Toye, Roar of the Lion, p. 70.
‘radio personality’ Ibid.
‘he gives the impression . . . fails miserably’ Ibid., pp. 69–70.
‘fucking liar’ or ‘fucking bullshit’ Ibid, pp. 95, 131.
‘He’s no speaker, is he?’ Ibid, p. 126.
‘The ceremony at Gettysburg . . . Lincoln’ Ibid, p. 69.
‘There are two people . . . I am’ Ibid, p. 28.
‘The winning formula . . . never fails’ Harold Nicolson to Ben and Nigel Nicolson, 21 September 1943; Nigel Nicolson, ed., Harold Nicolson: Diaries and Letters 1939–1945 (London: 1967), p. 321.
‘Audiences prefer . . . Latin and the Greek’ Winston Churchill, ‘The Scaffolding of Rhetoric.’ November 1897, https://www.winstonchurchill.org/images/pdfs/for_educators/THE_SCAFFOLDING_OF_RHETORIC.pdf. Accessed 29 August 2014.
‘finest hour’ speech See Hansard, HC Deb, 18 June 1940, vol. 362, cc51–64.
‘liberated . . . freed’ Winston Churchill speech notes, CHAR 9/172.
‘I felt sick . . . so many to so few’ Lord Ismay, The Memoirs of Lord Ismay (London: 1960), pp. 179–80.
‘the end of the beginning’ For the whole speech, see http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/speeches-of-winston-churchill/1941-1945-war-leader/987-the-end-of-the-beginning. Accessed 29 August 2014.
8. A PROPER HUMAN HEART
‘Where were you educated . . . book’ Elizabeth Nel, Winston Churchill by His Personal Secretary (London: 2007), p. 40.
‘I want to see Buffalo Bill . . . too much for that’ Winston Churchill to Lady Randolph Churchill, 11 June 1886; Martin Gilbert, Churchill: A Life (New York: 1991), p. 13.
‘orientalism’ Lady Gwendoline Bertie to Churchill, 27 August 1907; Randolph Churchill, ed., Winston S. Churchill Companion, vol. 2, part 1 (London: 1969), p. 672.
To the front . . . ‘ordinary people’ Norman Rose, Churchill: An Unruly Life (London: 1994), pp. 203–4.
‘Winston, like all really self-centred . . . boring people’ Margot Asquith, 23 January 1915; Michael and Eleanor Brock, eds., Margot Asquith’s Great War Diary 1914–1916: The View from Downing Street (London: 2014), p. 74.
‘I wonder . . . speaking terms with me’ Winston Churchill, June 1941, Martin Gilbert, ed., The Churchill War Papers, vol. 3: The Ever-Widening War 1941 (London: 1993), p. xxxvii.
‘When you first meet Winston . . . virtues’ See http://www.winstonchurchill.org/support/the-churchill-centre/publications/finest-hour/issues-109-to-144/no-138/863-action-this-day-fh-138. Accessed 29 August 2014.
‘without a large cigar . . . Col Churchill.’ A. Dewar-Gibb, ‘Captain X’, With Winston Churchill at the Front (London: 1925), chapter 8.
‘After a very brief . . . sheer personality’ Douglas Russell, Winston Churchill, Soldier: The Military Life of a Gentleman at War (London: 2005), p. 377.
‘practices of the Oscar Wilde variety’ CHAR 1/17.
Ralph Wigram For the Wigram story, see Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, pp. 542–60.
worrying about . . . Noah’s ark animals Mary Soames, Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage (London: 2003), p. 95.
‘Colonel Churchill . . . greatest admiration’ A. Dewar-Gibb, With Winston Churchill at the Front, chapter 8.
Churchill was always . . . a girlfriend Soames, Clementine Churchill, p. cxix.
‘flying buttress’ Mary Soames, Crosby Kemper Lecture, 1991; John Perry, Winston Churchill (New York: 2010), p. 157.
‘My nurse . . . my many troubles.’ Winston Churchill, My Early Life: A Roving Commission (New York: 1930), p. 5.
‘cruel and mean’ Winston Churchill to Lady Randolph Churchill, 29 October 1893; CHAR 28/19/24–27.
‘Take plenty . . . good for my sake’ Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, pp. 42–43.
‘The jacket . . . calm again’ Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 53.
‘We saw a snake . . . Everest would not let me’ Winston Churchill to Lord Randolph Churchill, 10 April 1882; CHAR 28/13/8.
9. MY DARLING CLEMENTINE
‘I want so much . . . talk about’ Winston Churchill to Clementine [Hozier] Churchill, 7 August 1908; Mary Soames, ed., Speaking for Themselves: The Personal Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill (London: 1999), p. 11.
‘those strange mysterious . . . arrive at loneliness’ Winston Churchill to Clementine [Hozier] Churchill, 8 August 1908; ibid, p. 12.
‘If that beetle reaches . . . not going to’ Norman Rose, Churchill: An Unruly Life (London: 1994), p. 61.
‘I always hear . . . I doubt it’ Rose, Unruly Life, p. 60. The lady friend of Lloyd George has been only identified as Miss G- G-, ‘whose family was quite well-known in Liberal circles.’ See Rose, Unruly Life, p. 356.
‘You brute! . . . properly’ Martin Gilbert, Churchill: A Life (New York: 1991), p. 210.
Nor do most historians See Paul Addison, ‘Churchill and Women’, http://www.churchillarchive.com/education-resources/higher-education?id=Addison. Accessed 30 August 2014.
‘the beautiful Polly Hacket’ Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 42.
‘the most beautiful girl I have ever seen’ Winston Churchill to Lady Randolph Churchill, 4 November 1896; CHAR 28/22/18–23.
Muriel Wilson See Michael Sheldon, The Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill (London: 2014), pp. 181–92.
‘our days of hansom cabs’ Pamela Plowden to Winston Churchill, May 1940; Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 645.
‘lived happily ever after’ Winston Churchill, My Early Life: A Roving Commission (New York: 1930), p. 370.
‘His wife could never . . . both Jenkins, Churchill: A Biography, p. 138.
‘without an office . . . without an appendix’ Winston Churchill, Thoughts and Adventures (London: 1949), p. 213.
‘A lot of people . . . peace-making’ Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 459.
‘It always makes me unhappy . . . prevail’ Roy Jenkins, Churchill: A Biography (New York: 2001), p. 362.
‘My Darling . . . here it is now’ Clementine Churchill to Winston Churchill, 27 June 1940; Soames, Speaking for Themselves, p. 454.
‘If the country . . . lost the war’ Andrew Roberts, Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership (London: 2010), p. 68.
‘Here lies a woman . . . required’ Mary Soames, Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage (London: 2003), p. 284.
‘first, second and third’ Mary Soames, ‘Father Always Came First, Second and Third’, Daily Telegraph, 16 August 2002.
‘We are still young . . . warming’ Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 357.
‘a figure of panache . . . little child’ See Christopher Wilson, ‘The Most Wicked Woman in High Society’, Daily Mail, 29 March 2014.
‘It’s an enchanted island . . . isn’t it?’ Soames, Clementine Churchill, p. 298.
‘He lived in a beautiful wicker . . . people he liked’ Ibid., pp. 269–70.
‘Oh my darling . . . folded in your arms’ Clementine Churchill to Winston Churchill, 20 April 1935; Soames, Speaking for Themselves, p. 399.
‘I think a lot . . . want you back’ Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill, 13 April 1935; ibid, p. 398.
10. THE MAKING OF JOHN BULL
‘Young lady . . . had a choice’ Dominique Enright, The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill (London: 2011), Kindle edition.
‘I want every box . . . master race’ Susan Elia MacNeal, Mr. Churchill’s Secretary (London: 2012).
‘Winston . . . I would drink it’ Martin Gilbert, In Search of Churchill: A Historian’s Journey (London: 1994), p. 232.
‘This is the kind of English . . . will not put’ http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/quotations/famous-quotations-and-stories. Accessed 31 August 2014.
‘In the future . . . anti-fascists’ See http://standuptohate.blogspot.co.uk/p/winston-churchill-and-anti-fascist.html. Accessed 31 August 2014.
‘The hardest cross . . . Cross of Lorraine’ See http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/quotations/quotes-falsely-attributed. Accessed 31 August 2014.
‘bring a friend, if you have one’ Derek Tatham to Winston Churchill, 19 September 1949; G. B. Shaw to Derek Tatham, 16 September 1949. See CHUR 2/165/72–82.
‘mouthwash’ Michael Richards, ‘Alcohol Abuser’. See http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/myths/myths/he-was-an-alcohol-abuser. Accessed 31 August 2014.
‘Never forget your trademark’ Andrew Roberts, Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership (London: 2010), p. 137.
‘Winston . . . sober in the morning’ See ‘Drunk and Ugly: The Rumour Mill’, http://www.winstonchurchill.org/support/the-churchill-centre/publications/chartwell-bulletin/2011/31-jan/1052-drunk-and-ugly-the-rumor-mill. Accessed 31 August 2014.
‘Churchill has spent . . . impromptu remarks’ Clayton Fritchley, ‘A Politician Must Watch His Wit’, New York Times Magazine (3 July 1960), p. 31.
‘Tell the Lord Privy Seal . . . shit at a time’ Andrew Marr, A History of Modern Britain (London: 2009), p. 19.
‘beginning of the end . . . beginning’ Winston Churchill, 10 November 1942, Richard Toye, The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Winston Churchill’s World War Two Speeches (London: 2013), p. 148.
‘I am ready . . . another question’ Winston Churchill on his seventy-fifth birthday. Celia Sandys, From Winston with Love and Kisses: The Young Churchill (College Station, Tex.: 2013), p. 12.
‘we shape . . . shape us’ Winston Churchill, 28 October 1943. See http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/quotations/famous-quotations-and-stories. Accessed 31 August 2014.
‘I have taken . . . out of me’ Michael Richards, ‘Alcohol Abuser’. See http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/myths/myths/he-was-an-alcohol-abuser. Accessed 31 August 2014.
‘May I have . . . white meat’ Dominique Enright, The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill (London: 2011), Kindle edition.
‘And mark my words . . . liquidate you’ Winston Churchill, 5 July 1943; Nigel Nicolson, ed., Harold Nicholson Diaries and Letters: 1939–1945, vol.2, p. 303.
‘sheep in sheep’s clothing’ See D. W. Brogan, Safire’s Political Dictionary (London: 2008), p. 352.
‘I remember . . . Treasury Bench’ Winston Churchill, 28 January 1931, House of Commons; Hansard, HC Deb, vol. 247, cc999–1111.
‘There but for the grace . . . goes God’ Winston Churchill, quoted in Life, 16 February 1948, p. 39.
‘no more . . . pink pansies’ Richard Langworth, ed., Churchill: By Himself (New York: 2013), p. 57.
‘Tell them . . . instruction literally’ Enright, Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill, p. 139.
‘When I warned . . . some neck!’ Winston Churchill, 30 December 1941, Canadian Parliament, Ottawa; Richard Langworth, Churchill: By Himself, p. 24.
‘triphibian’, ‘unsordid’ Ibid, p. 48.
‘Gimme . . . klop’ Ibid, p. 54.
‘Christ!’ John Pearson, The Private Lives of Winston Churchill (London: 1991), p. 155.
11. ‘THE MOST ADVANCED POLITICIAN OF THE TIME’
‘Fancy living . . . clever!’ Michael Sheldon, The Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill (London: 2014), pp. 127–28.
‘like blacks’ Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill, 17 April 1924; Mary Soames, Speaking for Themselves: The Personal Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill (London: 1999), p. 281.
‘no interest . . . yellow peoples’ Winston Churchill to Neville Chamberlain, 27 March 1939; see ‘Did Singapore Have to Fall?’ http://www.winstonchurchill.org/support/the-churchill-centre/publications/finest-hour/issues-109-to-144/no-138/903-part-5-did-singapore-have-to-fall. Accessed 31 August 2014.
‘bomb or machine-gun’ John Pearson, The Private Lives of Winston Churchill (London: 1991), p. 183.
‘baboons’ Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 4: The Stricken World, 1916–1922, p. 227.
‘horrible . . . moral disease’ Paul Addison, Churchill: The Unexpected Hero (Oxford: 2005), p. 93.
‘one might as well . . . Bolsheviks’ See Martin Gilbert, Churchill: A Life (New York: 1991), p. 408.
‘feeding cat’s meat to a tiger’ Madhusree Mukerjee, Churchill’s Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II (London: 2010), p. 14.
‘a bit of bloodshed . . . throat’ Paul Addison, Churchill on the Home Front, 1900–1955 (London: 1992), p. 216.
‘It is a national evil . . . degeneration’ Winston Churchill, 28 April 1909, House of Commons, Hansard, HC Deb, vol. 4, cc342–411.
‘a striking illustration . . . legislation’ Alan S. Baxendale, Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill: Penal Reformer (London: 2010), p. 191, n. 66.
‘Insurance . . . rescue of the masses’ Randolph Churchill and Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill: Young Statesman 1901–1914, p. 294.
‘All this picture . . . industry’ Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill, 14 September 1909; Addison, Home Front, p. 86.
‘survival of a feudal . . . forever’ Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 211.
‘The prisoner . . . habits in prison’ Ibid., pp. 212–13.
‘I wanted to draw . . . inconvenience’ Roy Jenkins, Churchill: A Biography (New York: 2001), p. 182.
‘vendetta’ See ‘Winston Churchill’ Daily Telegraph, 2 March 2010.
‘They are very poor . . . starving’ Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 231.
‘had a real grievance . . . civilisation’ Ibid., p. 232.
‘no worker . . . trade dispute’ Ibid., p. 377.
‘recalcitrant . . . unreasonable’ Ibid., p. 478.
‘aboriginal . . . Tory’ Addison, Home Front, p. 101.
‘Winston has no convictions’ Richard Toye, Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness (London: 2012), p. 47.
‘made his hair stand on end’ Jenkins, Churchill, p. 81.
‘It was the world . . . very few’ James C. Humes, Churchill: The Prophetic Statesman (New York: 2012), p. 68.
‘he desired in Britain . . . working class’ James Muller, Churchill as a Peacemaker (London: 2003), p. 14.
great central party . . . on the other Addison, Home Front, p. 26.
‘Conservative in principle . . . sympathy’ Norman Rose, Churchill: An Unruly Life (London: 1994), p. 208.
‘the existing capitalist . . . necessities’ Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, pp. 465–68.
12. NO GLORY IN SLAUGHTER
‘could not help . . . before that’ Martin Gilbert, Churchill: A Life (New York: 1991), p. 393.
‘The economic clauses . . . futile’ Winston Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 1: The Gathering Storm (London: 1986), p. 6.
‘a man with such power . . . confronted’ Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 5: Prophet of Truth 1922–1939, p. 805.
‘Churchill had seen more . . . army’ Pat Buchanan, Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World (New York: 2008), p. 59.
‘seldom . . . minimise its horrors’ Peregrine Worsthorne, ‘Why Winston Churchill Is Not Really a War Hero’, The Week, 22 October 2008.
‘Winston has got . . . with sadness’ Roy Jenkins, Churchill: A Biography (New York: 2001), p. 240.
‘Winston . . . delicious’ Michael and Eleanor Brock, eds., Margot Asquith’s Great War Diary 1914–1916: The View from Downing Street (London: 2014), p. 54; Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, pp. 294–95.
‘your father . . . Dardanelles’ Andrew Roberts, review of Carlo D’Este, Warlord: A Life of Churchill at War, 1874–1945, Daily Telegraph, 10 April 2009.
‘criminal and cowardly’ Norman Rose, Churchill: An Unruly Life (London: 1994), p. 39.
‘boy . . . Russia’ Michael Sheldon, The Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill (London: 2014), pp. 129–31.
‘If I were a Boer . . . field’ Winston Churchill’s maiden speech in the House of Commons, 18 February 1901; Jenkins, Churchill, p. 72.
‘What is going on . . . bloody rags’ Richard Langworth, Churchill: By Himself (New York: 2013), p. 251.
‘I saw the daylight . . . death’ Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 1, p. 201.
13. THE SHIPS THAT WALKED
‘moveable machine gun . . . trench’ Winston Churchill to John French, 10 April 1915; Winston Churchill, The World Crisis, 1911–1918 (London: 2005), pp. 313–14.
‘The spectacle . . . self-binder’ Ibid., p. 314.
‘landships’ H. G. Wells, ‘The Land Ironclads’, The Strand Magazine, December 1903.
he wrote to Asquith See Winston Churchill to H. H. Asquith, 5 January 1915, CHAR 13/44/32–35.
‘so that they are . . . people in them’ Winton Churchill, ‘Statement on the Introduction of the Tank’, CHAR 2/109.
‘The rollers . . . rolling process’ Ibid.
‘a tractor . . . enemy trenches’ Tennyson d’Eyncourt to Winston Churchill, 22 February 1915; Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 4: The Challenge of War (London: 1973), p. 553.
‘As proposed . . . WSC’ Martin Gilbert, Churchill: A Life (New York: 1991), p. 298.
‘After losing . . . at the front’ Tennyson D’Eyncourt to Winston Churchill, 14 February 1916, CHAR 2/71/14.
‘a grave danger . . . as a whole’ Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 373.
‘That dangerous and uncertain . . . Whitehall’ Ibid., p. 376.
‘bellybando’ Norman McGowan, My Years with Churchill (London: 1958), p. 94.
‘Machines . . . slaughter’ Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 370.
14. THE 100-HORSEPOWER MENTAL ENGINE
‘KBO’ See ‘Churchill: Leader and Statesman’, http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/biography/biography/churchill-leader-and-statesman. Accessed 1 September 2014.
‘They say . . . take the chance?’ Lou Channon, Ronald Reagan: The Presidential Portfolio—A History Illustrated from the Collection of the Ronald Reagan Library and Museum (London: 2001).
try counting . . . parliamentary record Traditionally referred to as ‘Hansard’, for Thomas Curson Hansard (1776–1833), a London printer and publisher, the record of parliamentary proceedings in the United Kingdom may be accessed at http://hansard.millbanksystems.com.
‘My husband . . . quite beyond us’ Eleanor Roosevelt, ‘Churchill at the White House’ in The Atlantic, 1 March 1965 (published posthumously). http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1965/03/churchill-at-the-white-house/305459. Accessed 1 September 2014.
‘limited . . . matters’ Norman Rose, Churchill: An Unruly Life (London: 1994), p. 173.
‘damned dots’ Winston Churchill, Lord Randolph Churchill, vol. 2 (London: 1906), p. 184.
‘speaking Persian’ William Manchester, The Last Lion—Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874–1932, p. 786.
‘There comes . . . horsepower mind’ Stanley Baldwin, ‘Churchill & His Contemporaries’ http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/myths/churchill-trivia/528-contemporaries. Accessed 1 September 2014.
‘Black dog’ Martin Gilbert, In Search of Churchill (London: 1995), p. 210.
‘You know . . . brushing your teeth’ Ibid., p. 26.
‘The principle . . . St George’s Day’ Winston Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 4 (London: 1950), pp. 623–24.
‘The ferment of ideas . . . difficulties’ Max Hastings, Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord, 1940–45 (London: 2009), p. 93.
15. PLAYING ROULETTE WITH HISTORY
‘I tried to give . . . professions’ Martin Gilbert, Churchill and the Jews: A Lifelong Friendship (London: 2007), pp. 98–99.
‘Tell your boss . . . bad sticker’ Ernst Hanfstaengel, Hitler—The Missing Years (London: 1957), p. 185.
‘very glad’ Winston Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 1: The Gathering Storm (London: 1986), p. 40.
‘I had no national . . . character’ Ibid.
‘Heil . . . Boothby’ Robert Rhodes James, Robert Boothby: A Portrait of Churchill’s Ally (London: 1991), p. 138.
‘Why is your chief . . . born’ Churchill, The Second World War, vol.1, p. 40.
‘What part . . . same about you’ Hanfstaengel, Hitler, p. 187.
‘what is the sense . . . born’ Roy Jenkins, Churchill: A Biography (New York: 2001), p. 469.
‘All these bands . . . weapons’ Martin Gilbert, Churchill: The Power of Words: His Remarkable Life Recounted Through His Writings and Speeches (London: 2012), p. 101.
‘the ability to foretell . . . happen’ Richard Langworth, Churchill: By Himself (New York: 2013), p. 505.
‘gross example . . . lives’ Martin Gilbert, Churchill: A Life (New York: 1991), p. 286.
‘soft under-belly’ Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 11 November 1942, Hansard, HC Deb, vol. 385, cc8–56.
‘I thought he would die . . . finished’ Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 321.
‘chewing barbed wire in Flanders’ Mary Soames, Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage (London: 2003), p. 134.
‘foul baboonery’ Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 410.
‘civilisation . . . victims’ Clifford Kinvig, Churchill’s Crusade: The British Invasion of Russia, 1918–1920 (London: 2007), p. 85.
‘Nothing . . . regime’ Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 415.
‘I will not submit . . . baboons’ Kinvig, Churchill’s Crusade, p. 154.
‘He hunts lions . . . cats’ David Low, ‘Winston’s Bag’, The Star, 21 January 1920.
‘Stop This New War’ Daily Mail, 18 September 1922; Andrew Mango, Ataturk (London: 2004), p. 352.
‘I had the greatest difficulty . . . teasing her’ Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 465.
Keynes wrote a denunciation See J. Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of Mr Churchill (London: 1925).
‘I would rather . . . content’ Geoffrey Best, Churchill: A Study in Greatness (London: 2001), p. 119.
‘You shall not press . . . cross of gold’ Michael Kazin, A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan (New York: 2006), p. 61.
‘I will make you . . . Chancellor’ Liaquat Ahaned, Lords of Finesse: 1929, The Great Depression, and the Bankers Who Broke the World (New York: 2011), p. 235.
‘nauseating’ Winston Churchill, 23 February 1931, Richard Toye, Churchill’s Empire: The World That Made Him and the World That He Made (London: 2011), p. 176.
‘We are a sort . . . fought for Britain’ Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 501.
‘Make a success . . . much more’ Toye, Churchill’s Empire, p. 188.
‘Winston collapsed . . . years’ Paul Addison, Churchill on the Home Front 1900–1950 (London: 1992), p. 323.
‘failure’ Robert Rhodes James, Churchill: A Study in Failure, 1900–1939 (London: 1981).
‘ridiculous . . . memorandum’ James C. Humes, Churchill: The Prophetic Statesman (New York: 2012), p. 32.
‘declare war . . . Pagan times’ Langworth, Churchill: By Himself, pp. 122–23.
16. AN ICY RUTHLESSNESS
‘shooting fish in a barrel’ Robert Philpott interviewed in Philip Graig, ‘Mass Murder or a Stroke of Genius That Saved Britain? As Closer Ties with France Are Planned, the ‘Betrayal’ They Still Can’t Forgive’, Daily Mail, 5 February 2010.
‘I leave it . . . to history’ Winston Churchill, 4 July 1940, House of Commons, Hansard, HC Deb, vol. 362, cc1043–51.
‘France is civilization’ Lord Moran, interview in Life, 22 April 1966, p. 106.
‘in other directions’ Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 180.
‘to hell with that . . . weather’ Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 6: Finest Hour, 1939–1941 (London: 1983), p. 526.
‘the war . . . Masonic plot’ Michael Cohen, Britain’s Moment in Palestine: Retrospect and Perspectives, 1917–1948 (London: 2014), p. 14.
‘blasted rhetoric’ Jonathan Rose, The Literary Churchill (New Haven, Conn.: 2014), p. 296.
‘fetch Seal . . . floes’ Max Hastings, Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord, 1940–45 (London: 2009), p. 106.
a fascinating study . . . ‘butchery’ Richard Lamb, Churchill as War Leader (London: 1991).
‘All efforts . . . success’ Sheila Lawlor, Churchill and the Politics of War, 1940–1941 (London: 1994), pp. 57–58.
‘at all costs, at all risks . . . to ruin’ Winston Churchill, The Second World War: Their Finest Hour, pp. 197–98.
‘Honourable discussions’ See ‘Battle Summary no.1’, http://www.hmshood.org.uk/reference/official/adm234/adm234-317.htm. Accessed 2 September 2014.
‘If we had known . . . all the difference’ David Brown, The Road to Oran: Anglo-French Naval Relations, September 1939–July 1940 (London: 2004), p. xxix.
‘Settle matters quickly’ ‘Diary of Events’, 3 July 1940, CHAR 9/173A–B.
‘It was a terrible decision . . . state’ Winston Churchill, 4 July 1940, House of Commons, Hansard, HC Deb, vol. 362, cc1043–51.
‘unending suffering and misery’ Adolph Hitler, 19 July 1940, in David Jablonsky, Churchill and Hitler: Essays on the Political-Military Direction of Total War (London: 1994), p. 220.
‘Hitler must invade . . . fail he will’ Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol.6: Finest Hour, p. 663.
that speech on Oran Winston Churchill, 4 July 1940, House of Commons, Hansard, HC Deb, vol. 362, cc1043–51.
17. THE WOOING OF AMERICA
‘Sit down . . . drag the United States in’ Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol.6: Finest Hour, 1939–1941 (London: 1983), p. 358.
‘It is 27 years ago . . . enough’ David Roll, The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler (London: 2013), p. 137.
‘Not a single . . . ourselves’ John Keegan, The Second World War (New York: 1989), p. 539.
‘left . . . dissatisfaction’ Richard Toye, The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Winston Churchill’s World War Two Speeches (London: 2013), p. 114.
‘kiss Uncle Sam . . . not on all four’ Norman Rose, Churchill: An Unruly Life (London: 1994), p. 183.
‘Strong drink . . . all my life’ John Ramsden, Man of the Century: Winston Churchill and His Legend Since 1945 (London: 2009), p. 132.
‘As one former . . . to another’ See Admiral Boyce, ‘Formal Naval Persons’, http://www.winstonchurchill.org/support/the-churchill-centre/publications/finest-hour-online/1305-qformer-naval-personsq. Accessed 2 September 2014.
‘Even though . . . liberation of the old’ Winston Churchill, ‘We Shall Fight Them on the Beaches’, 4 June 1940, http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/speeches-of-winston-churchill/128-we-shall-fight-on-the-beaches. Accessed 2 September 2014.
the Oran speech Winston Churchill, 4 July 1940, Hansard, HC Deb, vol. 362, cc1043–51.
‘the most unsordid act in history’ Winston Churchill, 24 August 1945, Hansard, HC Deb, vol. 413, cc955–8.
Britain was being skinned . . . to the bone Martin Gilbert, Churchill and America (London: 2005), p. 219.
‘There is nothing . . . kill anything’ Martin Gilbert, The Churchill War Papers, vol.3: The Ever-Widening War (London: 1993), p. 1399.
‘The British Prime Minister . . . United States’ Richard Langworth, Churchill’s Wit: The Definitive Collection (New York: 2009), p. 16.
‘Sure I am . . . forefront of the battle’ Winston Churchill, ‘Address to the Congress of the United States’, 26 December 1941; Martin Gilbert, ed., Churchill: The Power of Words: His Remarkable Life Recounted Through His Writings and Speeches (London: 2012), p. 294.
‘No one . . . war at all Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 7: Road to Victory, 1941–1945 (London: 2000), p. 553.
‘Saturated . . . thankful’ Martin Gilbert, Churchill and America (London: 2005), p. 245.
18. THE GIANT OF THE SHRUNKEN ISLAND
‘This will never do’ Alan ‘Tommy’ Lascelles, King’s Counsellor, Abdication and War: The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles (London: 2006), p. 224.
a letter for the King King George VI to Winston Churchill, 31 May 44; CHAR 20/136/10.
‘To this the unfortunate . . . violently’ Lascelles, King’s Counsellor, p. 226.
‘Tommy’s face . . . longer’ Ibid.
‘I was thinking . . . risk is 100–1’ Ibid.
‘in this instance . . . selfishness’ Ibid.
a second and firmer reprimand King George VI to Winston Churchill, 2 June 44; CHAR 20/136/4.
‘That is certainly a strong argument’ Lascelles, King’s Counsellor, p. 227.
‘the most ghastly . . . whole war’ Max Hastings, Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944 (London: 2012), p. 1.
‘front page stuff’ Lascelles, King’s Counsellor, p. 228.
‘unnecessary battle’ For instance, see Correlli Barnett, The Battle of El Alamein (London: 1964).
‘I can’t get the victories . . . hard to get’ Vincent O’Hara, In Passage Perilous: Malta and the Convoy Battles of June 1942 (Bloomington, Ind.: 2012), p. 67.
‘Many British officers . . . Japanese’ Max Hastings, ‘After a Series of Military Defeats Even Churchill Started to Fear That Our Army Was Simply Too Yellow to Fight’, The Daily Mail, 21 August 2009.
‘Father . . . soldiers won’t fight’ Andrew Roberts, Masters and Commanders: The Military Geniuses Who Led the West to Victory in World War II (London: 2009), p. 287.
‘We had so many . . . done better’ Max Hasting, ‘On Churchill’s Fighting Spirit’, Financial Times, 4 September 2009, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e6824d52-98e2-11de-aa1b-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3CBVtTd9C. Accessed 3 September 2014.
‘Defeat is one thing . . . another’ Robert Dallek, Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945 (Oxford: 1995), p. 347.
‘He wins . . . battle’ Norman Rose, Churchill: The Unruly Giant (New York: 1995), p. 389.
‘You British . . . fighting’ Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 7: Road to Victory, 1941–1945 (New York: 1986), p. 185.
‘a tumbler . . . cigars!!’ Arthur Bryant, The Turn of the Tide: A History of the War Years Based on the Diaries of Field-Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff (New York: 1957), p. 464.
‘had a plug’ Winston Churchill to President Roosevelt, 14 June 1944; Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 6: Triumph and Tragedy (London: 1953), p. 28.
‘Let’s do it . . . graphically’ See account of Ralph Martin; Additional Churchill Papers, WCHL 15/2/6.
‘I shall never forget . . . critical moment’ Martin Gilbert, Churchill: A Life (New York: 1991), p. 829.
‘Prime Minister . . . come away’ Ibid., p. 832.
‘The look on Winston’s face . . . by his nurse’ Ibid., p. 832.
‘I have a very strong feeling . . . brave new world’ Norman Rose, Churchill: An Unruly Life (London: 1994) p. 394.
‘It struck me . . . fighting forces’ Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 852.
‘a sharp stab . . . dominated my mind’ Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 8: ‘Never Despair’ 1945–1965, p. 106.
‘Cheer for Churchill . . . Labour’ Adrian Fort, Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor (London: 2012), p. 304.
‘It may well be . . . effectively disguised’ Paul Addison, Churchill: The Unexpected Hero (Oxford: 2005), p. 215.
‘I wouldn’t call . . . hard time’ John Severance, Winston Churchill: Soldier, Statesman, Artist (New York: 1996), p. 115.
‘weak and rhetorical . . . public affairs’ The Spectator upon news of Churchill’s appointment to First Lord of the Admiralty; quoted from Rose, Unruly Life, p. 88.
19. THE COLD WAR AND HOW HE WON IT
‘Are we beasts . . . too far?’ Norman Rose, Churchill: An Unruly Life (London: 1994), p. 337.
‘mere act . . . wanton destruction’ Winston Churchill Cabinet minutes, 28 March 1945; David Reynolds, In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War (London: 2005), p. 481.
‘My hate died . . . clothes’ Martin Gilbert, Churchill: A Life (New York: 1991), p. 850.
he sketched out his plans Lord Moran, Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940–1965 (London: 1966), p. 163.
‘You said it! . . . over there’ Richard Collier, The War That Stalin Won: Tehran–Berlin (London: 1983), p. 240.
‘This brand . . . on Christmas Day’ Geoffrey Best, Churchill: A Study in Greatness (London: 2001), p. 271.
‘constitutes . . . parallel’ Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 6: Triumph and Tragedy, p. 438.
All that remained secret See David Reynolds, From World War to Cold War: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the International History of the 1940s (Oxford: 2006).
‘I like that man’ David Carlton, Churchill and the Soviet Union (Manchester: 2000), p. 144.
‘our misery’ Rose, Unruly Life, p. 255.
‘realist-lizards of the crocodile family’ Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol.8: ‘Never Despair’ 1945–1965, p.161.
‘wonderful school’ Gregory Sand, Defending the West: The Truman-Churchill Correspondence, 1945–1960 (London: 2004), p. 6.
‘seemed to like it very well’ Martin Gilbert, Churchill and America (London: 2005), p. 367.
‘I am sure . . . good’ Fraser J. Harbutt, The Iron Curtain (Oxford: 1988), p. 172.
‘enthusiastic’ Ibid., p. 180.
‘He told me . . . admirable’ Ibid.
Churchill’s speech at Fulton Winston Churchill, 5 March 1946, Fulton, Missouri. See http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/speeches-of-winston-churchill/120-the-sinews-of-peace. Accessed 3 September 2014.
‘special relationship . . . manuals of instruction’ Ibid.
‘less than happy . . . each other’ Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 867.
‘The United States . . . any other nation’ Ibid., p. 868.
‘inimical . . . peace’ Geoffrey Williams, The Permanent Alliance: The Euro-American Relationship, 1945–1984 (London: 1977), p. 19.
‘tightness’ Lord Moran, Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940–1965 (London: 1966), p. 337.
‘complete rest’ Gilbert, Churchill and America, p. 421.
‘Colville . . . recover’ Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 8, ‘Never Despair’, p. 856.
‘like an aeroplane . . . safe landing’ James Muller, Churchill as a Peacemaker (London: 2003), p. 323.
‘Man is spirit . . . Americans’ Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 939.
20. CHURCHILL THE EUROPEAN
‘We don’t need . . . right to be here’ See ‘stillpoliticallyincorrect’, http://disqus.com/telegraph-795480a5f59311af7dfc5b92f96f73d7/. Accessed 3 September 2014.
‘The Durham miners won’t wear it’ Alex May, Britain and Europe Since 1945 (London: 2014), p. 18.
‘Utter rubbish! . . . Nonsense!’ Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 26 June 1950, Hansard, HC Deb, vol. 476, cc1907–2056.
‘High Authority’ For instance, see James Carmichael, House of Commons, 26 June 1950, Hansard, HC Deb, vol. 476, cc1907–2056.
‘They would be . . . in this country’ Maurice Edelman, 27 June 1950, Hansard, HC Deb, vol. 476, cc2104–59.
‘Do we really . . . nightmare century’ Robert Boothby, ibid.
‘He seeks to win . . . balance of Europe’ Winston Churchill, ibid.
‘The whole movement . . . home together’ Winston Churchill, ibid.
‘United States of Europe . . . possible’ Martin Gilbert, Churchill: A Life (New York: 1991), p. 731.
‘We must build . . . those who can’ Winston Churchill, ‘Speech to the Academic Youth’, 19 September 1946; http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/astonish.html. Accessed 3 September 2014.
‘the idea of . . . European family’ Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill’s Speeches: Never Give In! (London: 2007), pp. 439–42.
a speech in Scotland Robert Rhodes James, Churchill Speaks: Winston S. Churchill in Peace and War: Collected Speeches, 1897–1963 (London: 1980), p. 930.
‘But . . . dwell among my own people’ Winston Churchill, ‘Why Not the United States of Europe’, News of the World, 29 May 1938; quoted from Martin Gilbert, Churchill: The Power of Words: His Remarkable Life Recounted Through His Writings and Speeches (London: 2012), pp. 199–200.
‘The question . . . associated with it’ Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 27 June 1950, Hansard, HC Deb, vol. 476, cc2104–59.
‘Great Britain . . . triple part’ Winston Churchill, ‘Why Not the United States of Europe’, News of the World, 29 May 1938.
‘Look at it . . . final disaster’ Kevin Theakston, Winston Churchill and the British Constitution (London: 2004), p. 132.
21. MAKER OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST
‘the war of the British succession’ C. J. Wrigley, A.J.P. Taylor: Radical Historian of Europe (London: 2006), p. 315.
‘Winston’s hiccup’ See ‘Frank Jacobs, ‘Winston’s Hiccup’ New York Times, 6 March 2013; http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/winstons-hiccup/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0. Accessed 3 September 2014.
surface area . . . ruled by Britain See Walter Reid, Empire of Sand: How Britain Made the Middle East (London: 2011).
‘on an oriental scale’ Spectator, ‘The Question of the Mandates’, 28 August 1920.
a letter from A. J. Balfour A. J. Balfour to Walter Rothschild, 2 November 1917; Gudrun Krämer, A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel (Princeton: 2011), p. 149.
‘a land without . . . without a land’ Israel Zangwill, “The Return to Palestine”, New Liberal Review (December 1901), p. 615.
‘Gertie! . . . Dear boy!’ Shareen Brysac and Karl Meyer, Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East (London: 2009), p. 176.
‘a bas Churchill’ Jack Fishman, My Darling Clementine: The Story of Lady Churchill (London: 1966), p. 92.
‘I’ve started . . . finish on a camel’ Janet Wallach, Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia (New York: 2005), p. 300.
‘The Jews have been . . . the world over’ Michael J. Cohen, Churchill and the Jews, 1900–1948 (London: 2013), p. 90.
‘the Palestinians never miss . . . opportunity’ Oded Balaban, Interpreting Conflict: Israeli–Palestinian Negotiations at Camp David II and Beyond (New York: 2005), p. 60.
‘If one promise . . . fulfil both’ Winston Churchill’s reply to Mousa Kasem El-Hussaini; Howard Grief, The Legal Foundation and Borders of Israel Under International Law: A Treatise on Jewish Sovereignty Over the Land of Israel ( Jerusalem, 2008), p. 446.
‘It was a declaration . . . intimately associated’ Winston Churchill’s reply to Mousa Kasem El-Hussaini, in Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 4; The Stricken World, p. 565.
‘Our Jewish and Zionist . . . rights’ Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, Vol. 4; The Stricken World, p. 567.
‘prudence . . . patience’ Norman Rose, ‘Churchill and Zionism’, in Robert Blake and William Roger Louis, eds., Churchill: A Major New Reassessment of His Life in Peace and War (London: 1996), p. 156.
‘Every step . . . all Palestinians’ Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 435.
‘Some people . . . appeared in the world’ Michael Makovsky, Churchill’s Promised Land: Zionism and Statecraft (New Haven, Conn.: 2007), p. 85.
‘Hebrew bloodsuckers’ Cohen, Churchill and the Jews, p. 138.
‘tendency to orientalism’ Lady Gwendoline Bertie to Churchill, 27 August 1907; Randolph Churchill and Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 2, Companion Part 1, p. 672. See also Warren Dockter, ‘The Influence of a Poet: Wilfrid S. Blunt and the Churchills’, Journal of Historical Biography, vol. 10 (Autumn 2011), pp. 70–102.
in his new survey Warren Dockter, Winston Churchill and the Islamic World: Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle East (London: 2014).
‘sacred and beloved homeland . . . trade’ Isaiah Freidman, Palestine, a Twice-Promised Land: The British, the Arabs & Zionism : 1915-1920 (London: 2000), p. 171.
‘We committed ourselves . . . inhabitants of the country’ Paul Addison, Churchill: The Unexpected Hero, p. 101.
‘I do not admit . . . power to be the judge’ Palestine Royal Commission, Minutes of Evidence, 12 March 1937; CHAR/2/317/8666, 8728, pp. 503, 507.
‘a score of mud villages . . . usually starving’ Cohen, Churchill and the Jews, p. 67.
‘I can’t understand . . . make them sneeze’ Winston Churchill in War Office minutes, 22 May 1919, Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 4, Companion Part 1, p. 649.
‘I hate Irak . . . ungrateful volcano’ Ronald Hyam, ‘Churchill and the British Empire’ in Blake and Louis, Churchill, p. 174.
‘an odious act of ingratitude’ Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 8: ‘Never Despair’ 1945–1965 (London: 1988), p. 1233.
‘I have achieved . . . nothing in the end’ Rose, Unruly Life, p. 424.
As Richard Toye has pointed out Richard Toye, Churchill’s Empire: The World That Made Him and the World That He Made (London: 2011), p. 316.
22. THE MEANING OF HIS NAME TODAY
‘My darling one . . . Your ever & always W’ Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 8: ‘Never Despair’ 1945–1965 (London: 1988), p. 1342.
‘My life is over . . . not yet ended’ Martin Gilbert, Churchill: A Life (New York: 1991), p. 956.
‘there should be no barrier . . . fitted for it’ Richard Toye, Churchill’s Empire: The World That Made Him and the World That He Made (London: 2011), p. xii.
‘What are you going to do . . . almost extinct’ Richard Langworth, Churchill: By Himself (New York: 2013), p. 569.
‘the unnatural . . . impossible to exaggerate’ See Gilbert, ‘Churchill and Eugenics’ http://www.winstonchurchill.org/support/the-churchill-centre/publications/finest-hour-online/594-churchill-and-eugenics. Accessed 4 September 2014.
‘Three generations . . . is enough’ Martin Gilbert, ibid.
‘I feel you have come . . . defend myself’ Langworth, Churchill’s Wit: The Definitive Collection (New York: 2009), p. 101.
‘When I think . . . treated equally’ Richard Langworth, Churchill: By Himself (New York: 2013), p. 442.
‘Gandhi . . . elephant’ Arthur Herman, Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age (London: 2009), p. 273.
‘Some experiments . . . canvas since’ Winston Churchill, Thoughts and Adventures (London: 1949), pp. 234–35.
‘He had sympathy . . . all over the world’ Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 8, ‘Never Despair’, p.1361.
‘character . . . in an infant’ Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 487.
23. THE CHURCHILL FACTOR
an essay by the psychologist Anthony Storr See Anthony Storr, ‘The Man’ in A.J.P. Taylor, ed., Churchill: Four Faces and the Man (London: 1969), pp. 210–11.