by Max Hastings
129 ‘Churchill and his generals’ Hinsley op. cit. vol. i p.260
130 ‘I hope, Jack’ Eden op. cit. p.240
130 ‘General Wavell should regain’ BNA CAB120/10 14.4.41
131 ‘I think it is desperate’ Kennedy MS op. cit. 10.4.41
131 ‘CIGS is miserable’ ibid. 11.4.41
131 ‘Chiefs of staff overawed’ ibid.
132 ‘I am afraid of a disaster’ Robert Menzies diary Dark Days ed. A.W. Martin and Patsy Hardy National Library of Australia 1993 p.120
132 ‘Aren’t you going to listen’ Nella Last op. cit. 27.4.41
132 ‘All that the country’ Nicolson op. cit. 13.4.41
133 ‘He himself took’ Hankey op. cit. p. 506 13.5.41
134 ‘We hold our breath’ Hodgson op. cit. 25.5.41
135 ‘The difference between’ IWM 92/12/1 Belsey Papers
136 ‘Churchill a few months later’ Colville op. cit. p.443 28.9.41
136 ‘Once more Germany’ Mikhail Sebastian Journal 1935-44 Heinemann 2001 9.4.41
136 ‘You’ve lost the game’ Kurt Pauli Von Serbien Bis Kreta Steirische Verlagsanstatt 1942 p.137
136 ‘the utter darkness’ Brooke op. cit. p.379 4.2.43
136 ‘The PM in conversation’ Menzies op. cit. 1.3.41
137 ‘Churchill observed crossly’ CAC Eade Papers 2/2 op. cit. 24.7.41
138 ‘was right when he asserted’ Germany and the Second World War Oxford 1995 vol. iii p.555
138 ‘As far as I can make out’ BNA PREM4/17/2 20.3.41
138 ‘He said some very’ Colville op. cit. 3.6.41
139 ‘that fine commander’ BBC broadcast 27.4.41
139 ‘I understand he has’ Speaking for Themselves op. cit. p.480 13.5.43
139 ‘Wavell’s best biographer’ Ronald Lewin The Chief Hutchinson 1980
139 ‘My trouble is that’ Pownall op. cit. vol. ii p.95
139 ‘Now I’m going to waste’ Kennedy MS op. cit. 14.9.39
140 ‘They are a pretty fair’ Pownall op. cit. vol. ii p.19 3.6.41
140 ‘It is a bad feature’ Kennedy MS op. cit. 9.7.42
140 ‘When he is in’ Kennedy MS op. cit. 9.2.41
141 ‘It is a strange thing’ Brooke op. cit. p.647 20.1.45
141 ‘At times you could kiss’ CAC A.V. Alexander Papers AVAR6/1 diary 10.6.42
141 ‘Captain Stephen Roskill’ see Stephen Roskill Churchill and the Admirals Collins 1977
142 ‘I…have to confess’ Cunningham op. cit. pp.578 & 580
142 ‘I never saw him’ Denis Richards Portal of Hungerford Heinemann 1977 pp.202-3
143 ‘I am thankful I have’ Kennedy MS op. cit. 5.12.41
143 ‘Ismay is such a devotee’ ibid. 10.4.41
144 ‘Is there any evil’ IWM Alec Bishop unpublished MS 98/18/1
144 ‘The chief difficulty’ Martin diary op. cit. p.10
145 ‘In truth it is only’ Michael Davie and Anne Chisholm Beaverbrook Hutchinson 1992 p.664 14.5.41
146 ‘If you see that’ Thomas Wilson Churchill and the Prof Cassell 1995 p.16 & passim
147 ‘Moran was seldom’ Action this Day op. cit. p.110
147 ‘He always retained unswerving’ Colville op. cit. p.125
148 ‘The people strike me’ Lee op. cit. p.243 16.4.41
148 ‘Young man’ Kennedy The Business of War op. cit. p.236
149 ‘War consists of fighting’ quoted Reynolds op. cit. p.244
149 ‘I suppose you realise’ Kennedy MS op. cit. 21.6.41
Chapter 6: Comrades
150 ‘There is nothing straightforward’ Garfield op. cit. p.129
152 ‘None of this conflicts’ 17.9.39. On this issue see for instance David Carlton Churchill and the Soviet Union Manchester 2000 passim.
152 ‘That the Russian armies’ BBC broadcast 1.10.39
154 ‘a sentiment widely felt’ Colville op. cit. p.436 3.9.41
154 ‘They think they are dealing’ Pownall op. cit. vol. ii p.36 17.7.41
154 ‘I don’t suppose’ Headlam op. cit. p.157 22.6.41
154 ‘One feels that God’ ibid. p.258
155 ‘I glory in all this’ IWM 85/49/1 G.W. King MS 30.7.41
155 ‘The Russians have not’ Hodgson op. cit. p.185 22.6.41
155 ‘Somehow I think Stalin’ ibid. p.190 2.7.41
155 ‘I was agreeably surprised’ IWM 92/12/1 Belsey letters 25.6.41
156 ‘It’s impossible to say’ Pownall op. cit. vol. ii p.30 29.6.41
156 ‘I don’t believe Winston’ ibid. p.31 30.6.41
157 ‘Why the authorities’ Cunningham op. cit. p.350
159 ‘It was quite evident’ Lee op. cit. p.416
159 ‘Britain’s radio spies’ Daily Mirror 14.2.41
159 ‘The danger of enemy’ Hinsley op. cit. vol. ii p.671
160 ‘almost a pariah’ Lee op. cit. p.317 23.6.41
161 ‘an obstinate, high-minded man’ quoted Reynolds op. cit. p.256
162 ‘The British government, by its passive’ Chris Bellamy Absolute War Macmillan 2007 p.415
163 ‘We would like to inform you’ Ocherki Istorii Rossiikoi Vneshney Razvedki Studies on the History of the Soviet Foreign Intelligence Service Moscow 2007
164 ‘In order to enable Russia’ Hansard 30.9.41
164 ‘Hitler is throwing’ IWM 85/49/1 G.W. King MS
166 ‘I can still remember’ G.A. Kumanyov ‘Close to Stalin’ [Ryadom so Stalinym] Moscow 1999 p.300
166 ‘Now I have to bring’ Hankey op. cit. vol. iii p.533
167 ‘Chris Bellamy’ Bellamy op. cit. p.446
168 ‘The effect upon us’ Observer 17.8.41
168 ‘My main feeling is’ quoted Garfield op. cit. p.172 9.10.41
168 ‘the rising temper’ The Churchill War Papers ed. Gilbert op. cit. vol. iii p.1372 25.10.41
168 ‘Things are pretty hard’ Churchill Archive CHAR1/362
168 ‘The fundamental difficulty’ Kennedy MS op. cit. 7.9.41
168 ‘Would that the two loathsome’ Pownall op. cit. p.50 29.10.41
168 ‘After his first enthusiasm’ Harvey op. cit. 27.10.41
169 ‘In two years struggle’ Churchill War Papers op. cit. vol. iii p.1204 12.9.41
169 ‘Winston’s attitude to war’ Menzies op. cit. p.99 31.3.41
169 ‘The Army must do something’ Kennedy MS op. cit. 9.10.41
169 ‘Winston is in a difficult position’ ibid. 13.10.41
169 ‘Yes, I am afraid’ ibid. 11.10.41
Chapter 7: The Battle of America
171 ‘I wonder if the Americans’ Kennedy MS op. cit. 25.5.41
171 ‘rushing vast quantities’ The Memoirs of Cordell Hull Hodder & Stoughton 1948 vol. ii p.967
172 ‘The United States Administration’ Eden op. cit. p.176
172 ‘after the victory was won’ Kimball op. cit. vol. i. p.102
173 ‘I have never realised’ quoted Kynaston op. cit. vol. iii p.472
174 ‘Our desperate straits’ Eden op. cit. p.135
174 ‘I have never liked Americans’ quoted Roberts The Holy Fox op. cit. p.280
174 ‘the heavy labour of toadying’ ibid p.278
174 ‘I only said’ Eden op. cit. p.182
174 ‘During a trip to Detroit’ Christian Science Monitor 12.5.41 p.15 & 4.11.41 p.8
174 ‘pretty hopeless’ Harvey op. cit. p.20 15.7.41
174 ‘because he couldn’t’ Dalton op. cit. p.272 25.8.41
175 ‘They really are’ Headlam op. cit. p.270 15.8.41
175 ‘no great enthusiasm’ BNA FO371/34114 175 ‘it wouldn’t really pay’ LHA Slessor Papers Box XIIC
175 ‘when one is dealing with’ RAF Museum Hendon Harris Papers folder H98 15.9.41
176 ‘It is just a little humiliating’ Dalton op. cit. p.247 10.7.41
176 ‘the average man’s’ Planning Committee minutes 4.6.41 BNA INF1/249
176 ‘Donovan…is extremely friendly’ Kennedy MS op. cit. 7.3.41
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bsp; 177 ‘a possible America’ D.C. Watt Succeeding John Bull Cambridge 1980 p.161
177 ‘he quite understood’ Colville op. cit. 1.11.40
177 ‘I was…only a Second Lieutenant’ Robert H. Pilipel Churchill in America NEL 1977 p.16
178 ‘Had he been pure English aristocracy’ Hodgson op. cit. pp.189-90 2.7.41
178 ‘Here’s a telegram’ Colville op. cit. p.136 19.5.40
178 ‘By late 1941’ Report by Richard L. Coe Washington Post 11.1.42
180 ‘I believe that we really can’ Sherwood op. cit. vol. i p.125
180 ‘He can work only seven’ Time 10.3.41
180 ‘of the exact state’ Sherwood op. cit. vol. i p.239
181 ‘I suppose you could say’ ibid. p.237
181 ‘We seek no treasure’ Memoirs of Lord Chandos Bodley Head 1962 pp.165-6
182 ‘Hopkins was, I think’ quoted Gilbert Finest Hour op. cit. pp.997 & 999
182 I have never had such’ Lee op. cit. p.220
182 ‘Apparently the first thing’ The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes Simon & Schuster 1953-54 183 ‘He finished with really’ Hodgson op. cit. 27.7.41
183 ‘Winston is completely certain’ Menzies op. cit. p.64 22.2.41
184 ‘It is never very easy’ Books & Bookmen October 1977 review of Joseph Lash’s Roosevelt and Churchill 1939-41 André Deutsch 1977
185 ‘Personally I am very sorry’ IWM MP Troy Papers 95/25/1 1.1.41
185 ‘As soon as the Lend-Spend’ Averell Harriman and Elie Abel Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin Random House NY 1975 p.5
186 ‘We can’t take seriously’ ibid. p.15
186 ‘He resented this so much’ Lee op. cit. p.307 9.6.41
186 ‘By contrast Colonel’ Forrest Pogue George C. Marshall: Ordeal and Hope 1939-42 Viking 1965 pp.133-4
186 ‘If rather than when’ ibid. p.139
187 ‘I was deeply worried’ Harriman op. cit. p.18
187 ‘I must attempt to convince’ ibid. p.18
187 ‘The PM is much smaller’ ibid. p.61
188 ‘the PM bluntly stated’ ibid. p.28
188 ‘believing that we shall get’ Amery op. cit. p.689 19.5.41
188 ‘The great difficulty is’ Harriman op. cit. p.57
188 ‘The idea of being our armoury’ Headlam op. cit. p.234 31.12.40
189 ‘The great thing is not to’ Nicolson op. cit. 21.3.41
189 ‘Well, yes’ Lee op. cit. p.357 26.7.41
189 ‘frightened of nothing’ Cadogan op. cit. p.393 21.7.41
190 ‘A wonderful story’ quoted Churchill War Papers op. cit. vol. iii p.810
191 ‘a disorderly day’s rabbit-shooting’ BNA PREM4/27/9 13.3.41
191 ‘I must say I do not think’ BNA PREM3/485/6 fo.16
191 ‘with a retinue which’ Colville op. cit. 3.8.41
192 ‘Working in H[arry] H[opkins]’s cabin’ CAC Geoffrey Green GREE1
193 ‘really incapable of’ quoted Kenneth S. Davis FDR: The War President Random House 2000 p.212
195 ‘Not a single American officer’ CAC Jacob diary 11.8.41 JACB1/10
196 ‘It would be an exaggeration’ Sherwood op. cit. vol. i p.364
197 ‘My God, this is history!’ CAC Green op. cit. GREE1 10.8.41
197 ‘the occasion must fulfil’ CAC Jacob diary op. cit. 10.8.41
197 ‘That afternoon, Churchill took’ CAC Martin diary op. cit. p.60
197 ‘Am I going to like it?’ ibid. p.62
198 ‘It was hard to tell’ Action this Day op. cit. p.206
198 ‘a very interesting and by no means’ Churchill Papers 29.8.41 CHAR1/362/28-32
198 ‘Roosevelt is all for coming’ Pownall op. cit. vol. i
199 ‘nothing dressed up’ Kennedy MS op. cit. 24.8.41
199 ‘There was a statement’ Hodgson op. cit. p.201 15.8.41
199 ‘I ought to tell you’ Gilbert Churchill War Papers op. cit. vol. iii p.1125 28.8.41
200 ‘The PM said that after’ Colville op. cit. p.434 30.8.41
200 ‘He even questioned’ Harvey op. cit. p.39 31.8.41
200 ‘The attitude of the people’ quoted Lee op. cit. p.376 24.8.41
201 ‘It will not be possible’ Gilbert War Papers op. cit. vol. iii p.1202
201 ‘plans were worked out’ V.G. Trukhanovsky Winston Churchill Progress Publishers Moscow 1978 p.273
203 ‘the Food Account was’ CAC Churchill Papers CHAR1/379/12-20
204 ‘Oh, Miss, you’ll never guess’ Nel op. cit. pp.43-5
204 ‘Now run inside’ ibid. p.67
204 ‘Winston was depressed’ Eden op. cit. 22.9.41
204 ‘in the event of a collision’ BNA HWI/25
204 ‘Make sure they have’ Hinsley op. cit. vol. ii appendix 3 p.655
205 ‘Another Prayer’ CAC Edwards diary REDW2/3 24-25.8.41
206 ‘There is nothing like’ Kimball op. cit. vol. i p.165 2.11.41
206 ‘People are wondering’ Harriman op. cit. p.109 20.10.41
207 ‘Whatever may happen’ Pownall op. cit. vol. ii p.41
207 ‘Camrose was sufficiently’ quoted Lord Hartwell William Camrose: Giant of Fleet Street Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1992 p.316
207 ‘On the 19th’ CAC Eade Papers 19.11.41
208 ‘A.E. is much perplexed’ Harvey op. cit. p.48 3.10.41
208 ‘He said he had no use’ Hankey op. cit. vol. iii 15.10.41
210 ‘Winston’s methods were frequently’ Brooke op. cit. p.192 20.10.41
210 ‘too much impressed’ Kennedy The Business of War op. cit. p.78
211 ‘his ability to shake himself’ Kennedy MS op. cit. 19.3.42
212 ‘If they declare war on us’ John G. Winant A Letter from Grosvenor Square London 1947 pp.196-7
212 ‘tired and depressed’ Harriman op. cit. p.111
213 ‘saturated and satiated’ quoted Reynolds op. cit. p.264
Chapter 8: A Glimpse of Arcadia
214 ‘Well then, this war is over’ Pierre Billotte Le Temps des armes Plon Paris 1972 p.187
214 ‘We simply can’t be beaten’ Nicolson op. cit. p.197 11.12.41
214 ‘Though I do not wish’ Hodgson op. cit. p.232 9.12.41
214 ‘While the public are prepared’ BNA INF1/292
218 ‘I do not know when’ Speaking for Themselves op. cit. p.460 21.12.41
220 ‘All is very good indeed’ ibid. p.461 24.12.41
221 ‘No one but he’ Harold Macmillan War Diaries 16.11.43
222 ‘Senators’…office telephones’ Washington Post 27.12.41
223 ‘the greatest orator in the world’ Ickes diary op. cit. 26.12.41
223 ‘It is a great weight’ Moran op. cit. p.23
224 ‘to put it on its throne’ Lash op. cit. p.15
224 ‘“Tommy” clapped her hands’ ibid. p.16
224 ‘the aura of the office’ Charles Bohlen Witness to History Norton 1973 p.210
224 ‘a patrician democrat whose every’ Amery op. cit. p.882 15.4.43
225 ‘The difference between’ William Hassett Off the Record with FDR Allen & Unwin 1960 p.171
225 ‘one of the most untidy rooms’ CAC Jacob diary op. cit. JACB1/12
225 ‘How do these people’ Cadogan op. cit. p.586
225 ‘By the side of the Prime Minister’ CAC Jacob diary op. cit. JACB1/14
225 ‘They will have first to’ ibid. p.90
227 ‘They tell me I have’ Ickes diary op. cit. 1.2.42
227 ‘The time had now come’ WSC The Second World War vol. iii p.625
228 ‘Amery noted wryly’ Amery op. cit. 17.1.42
228 ‘He wanted to show’ Moran op. cit. p.21
228 ‘There is bound to be’ Eden op. cit. p.319 28.1.42
229 ‘There is one lesson’ Denver Post 6.2.42
229 ‘It is unfortunate that’ Chicago Tribune 20.2.42
229 ‘Who writes Churchill’s’ Time Book Review section 17.3.41 p.94
230 ‘Even those closest’ Lash op
. cit. p.195
230 ‘proposed to reshape’ Michael Howard Books & Bookmen October 1977
230 ‘The academic yet sweeping’ Eden op. cit. p.374
231 ‘My whole system’ ibid. Nov. 1942
231 ‘The British are evidently’ Stimson diary Sterling Memorial Library Yale 11.1.42
232 ‘as if these had been swept’ Pogue op. cit. vol. ii p.265
232 ‘It is odd’ quoted Alex Danchev Very Special Relationship Brassey’s 1986 p.10
Chapter 9: ‘The Valley of Humiliation’
234 ‘There seems to be plenty’ Moran op. cit. p.28
235 ‘with the mentality of’ Brooke op. cit. p.212 19.12.41
235 ‘We should thank God’ Kennedy Business of War op. cit. p.318
235 ‘The PM is not really interested’ Moran op. cit. p.20
236 ‘Mr Churchill has been unwilling’ New Statesman 31.1.42
236 ‘When Amery wished’ Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper Forgotten Armies Penguin 2004 p.234
236 ‘I think he is’ Harvey op. cit. 9.2.42
236 ‘The whole reputation’ 9.2.42
237 ‘Lots of people want’ Champion Redoubtable: The Diaries of Violet Bonham-Carter ed. Mark Pottle Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1998 Feb. 1942
237 ‘Sometimes…the PM is just like a child’ Dalton op. cit. p.368
237 ‘striding up and down’ Layton Papers quoted Gilbert The Road to Victory Heinemann 1986 p.56
238 ‘Defeatism is in the air’ Garfield op. cit. p.223
238 ‘I think it is time’ MO report quoted Leonard Mosley Backs to the Wall Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1971 p.241
238 ‘I’m fed up’ Bonham-Carter op. cit. 11.2.42
238 ‘The nature of his words’ CAC Colville MS diary 16.2.42
239 ‘We have so many men’ Nicolson op. cit. p.211 12.2.42
239 ‘But my God, sir’ Pim Papers quoted Gilbert Road to Victory op. cit. p.62
239 ‘If the army cannot fight’ Brooke op. cit. p.231 18.2.42
240 ‘At the back of his mind’ Harvey op. cit. p.91 5.2.42
240 ‘We have masses of’ Kennedy MS op. cit. 3.2.42
241 ‘These simple rules’ Dill to Brooke 5.3.42
242 ‘This process does not’ Arthur Bryant The Turn of the Tide Collins 1957 vol. i p.375
242 ‘We are indeed walking’ Hopkins Papers Georgetown University Washington DC Box 4 Folder 1 Accession 1 Series 1 correspondence
