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  25. Churchill, The Malakand Field Force, p. 16

  26. Kimball, Warren F., “Like Goldfish in a Bowl: The Alcohol Quotient”, Finest Hour, 134, p. 32

  27. James, Robert Rhodes, Churchill: A Study in Failure, p. 389

  28. Danchev and Todman (eds.), p. 566

  29. Harmon, Christopher C., “Alanbrooke and Churchill”, a review of the Alanbrooke Diaries, in Finest Hour 112, p. 34

  30. Langworth, Richard M. (ed.), Churchill by Himself, p. 550. (Langworth says that Churchill was paraphrasing a W.C. Fields retort.)

  31. Acheson, Dean, Sketches From Life Of Men I have Known, p. 66. John Martin tells this same story taking place on 3 August 1941 on the train north when Churchill was on the way to meet with President Roosevelt in Newfoundland. Martin p. 56

  32. Beschloss, p. 135

  33. Letter from Jo Sturdee, later, Countess of Onslow, to her family from La Mamounia Hotel, Marrakesh, Morocco, 7 January 7 1948, to her family. ONSL 1

  34. Louanne Cox, www.helium.com, February 2011.

  35. CHUR 1/15/32 and 33

  36. Gilbert, Volume VI, p. 336 note 1

  37. Gilbert, Martin, In Search of Churchill, p. 209

  38. Williams, Jane, conversations with author

  39. Eden, The Reckoning, p. 494

  40. Finest Hour 144, “The Churchill Quiz”, p. 63

  41. Churchill, Randolph S., p .453

  42. Langworth (ed.), Churchill by Himself, p. 37

  43. Acheson, p. 64

  44. Ray, Jonathan, “Winston Churchill drank Pol Roger by the Pint”, Telegraph, 30 September 2006

  45. Telegraph, Odette Pol Roger, 30 December 2000

  46. Roberts, Andrew, The Holy Fox: A Life of Lord Halifax, p. 186

  47. Churchill, My Early Life, p. 178

  48. McGowan, p. 90

  49. Rose, Kenneth, The Elusive Rothschild, The Life of Victor, Third Baron, p. 58

  50. Telegraph, Odette Pol Roger, 30 December 2000

  51. Independent, Odette Pol Roger, 30 January 2001

  52. www.polroger.co.uk

  53. Ibid.

  54. Ibid.

  55. Dilks (ed.), Cadogan, p. 707

  56. McGowan, p. 104

  57. Kersaudy, Francois, Churchill et Monaco, p. 46

  58. Rose, p. 73

  59. McGowan, p. 55

  60. Kimball, Warren, Finest Hour 134, p. 31

  61. Bonham Carter, p. 135

  62. Gilbert (ed.), Winston Churchill and Emery Reves: Correspondence, 1937-1964, pp. 376-377

  63. Gilbert, Volume VIII, p 630

  64. Rose, p. 53

  Chapter 12 Cigars

  1. Acheson, Dean, Sketches From Life Of Men I Have Known, p. 63, after a working lunch with Churchill at the British Embassy in Washington in 1946

  2. Welsh, Peter, “A Gentleman of History”, Cigar Aficionado, Autumn, 1995, p. 1

  3. Hough, Richard, Winston & Clementine, p. 69

  4. CHUR 1/351/50-52

  5. Howells, p. 94

  6. Wingfield-Stratford, Esmé, Churchill: The Making of a Hero, p. 95

  7. Acheson, Dean, Present at the Creation, p. 596

  8. McGowan, Norman, My Years With Churchill, p. 93. Howells contends that Churchill did indeed smoke his cigars to the very end. p.35

  9. That is the estimate of his valet, who precedes the “nine a day” estimate with the word “only”. McGowan, p. 92

  10. Photo of letter, preserved at J.J. Fox

  11. Golding, Ronald E., “Did You Fly? Hmph!”, Finest Hour 34, p. 4

  12. Gilbert, Churchill, Vol. IV, 1916-1922, p. 139

  13. McGowan, p. 93

  14. Welsh, p. 2

  15. CHUR 1/351/50-52

  16. Howells, p.37; McGowan, p. 92, reports that the matches were “specially imported from America”, not Canada

  17. Howells, p. 36

  18. Howells, p. 35. This ashtray traveled with Churchill.

  19. Welsh, p. 1

  20. Hirshson, Stanley P., General Patton: A Soldier’s Life, pp. 299-300

  21. Packwood, Allen, “Cigars: Protecting the Premier,” Finest Hour 106, p. 1

  22. Rose, Kenneth, London, 2003, p. 73

  23. Hall, Douglas, The Book of Churchilliana, p. 50

  24. Vines, C. M., A Little Nut Brown Man, My Three Years with Beaverbrook, p. 28

  25. West, Bruce, The Man Who Flew Churchill, p. 105

  26. Gilbert, Volume VII, p. 921

  27. Soames (ed.), Speaking for Themselves, p. 504. Clementine Churchill described it in a letter to her daughter as “a small shadow on one lung, but he himself is well …” Soames, Clementine Churchill, p. 357

  28. Colville, p. 507

  29. Soames, Speaking For Themselves, p. 504

  30. Soames, Clementine Churchill, Revised Edition, p. 502

  31. Colville, John, pp. 215-216

  32. CHUR 1/15/169

  33. CHUR 1/15/167

  Chapter 13 Rationing

  1. CAB 120/854

  2. CAB 123/74

  3. CAB 120/854

  4. Gardiner, Juliet, Wartime London, 2004, p. 147

  5. CAB 123/74

  6. Gilbert, Volume VII, pp. 161 and Calder, Angus, The People’s War, p. 71

  7. Calder, p. 405

  8. NF 1/292 Home Intelligence Weekly Report, No. 90, 16-23 June 1942

  9. Gilbert, Churchill War Papers, Volume III, p. 376

  10. CHAR 1/379/40 and 1/379/39

  11. CHAR 1/389/5

  12. Nesbitt, p. 274

  13. Hastings, Max, Finest Years: Churchill as War Lord 1940-1945, p. 202

  14. News Chronicle, 30 September 1941

  15. CHAR 1/380/25 and CHAR 1/368/85

  16. CHAR 2/441/61

  17. CHAR 2/446A

  18. Profumo, David, The Laxford Shows its True Colours, Country Life, 6 October 2010, p. 104

  19. CHAR 20/53C/256

  20. Char 2/442/51

  21. Char 2/446 B

  22. Gilbert, Churchill War Papers, Volume 3, p. 357

  23. Meiklejohn to Thompson, “Subject: Hams”, 3 January 1942. Library of Congress, Harriman Papers, Box 161, Folder 6

  24. Colville, The Churchillians, p. 156

  25. CHAR 20/138A/11

  26. Hastings, p. 203

  27. Ibid.

  28. Pawle, p. 155

  29. Hastings, p. 203

  30. Gilbert, The Churchill War Papers, Volume 3, p. 990

  31. MAF, 286/8

  32. Wheeler-Bennett, Sir John (ed.), Action This Day: Working With Churchill, p. 30

  33. Halle, Kay (ed.), Winston Churchill on America and Britain, p. 259

  34. Gilbert, The Churchill War Papers, Never Surrender, Volume 2, p. 514

  35. MAF 286/6

  36. MAF 286/6

  37. MAF 286/3

  38. CAB 123/74

  39. CAB 123/74

  40. CAB 123/74

  41. MAF 286/8

  42. CHAR 1/394/22

  43. CHAR 2/446/A

  44. CHAR 2/445/72

  45. CHAR 1/380/34

  46. Nelson, James (ed.), General Eisenhower on the Military Churchill: A Conversation With Alistair Cooke, p.54

  47. Unless otherwise indicated, correspondence relating to the affair of the plovers’ eggs can be found in MAF 286/1

  Epilogue

  1. Himmelfarb, Gertrude, The Moral Imagination: From Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling, p. 207

  2. Jenkins, p. 95, cited by Himmelfarb, ibid.

  3. Halle, Kay (ed.), The Irrepressible Churchill, p. 10

  4. Martin Gilbert, email, 19 April 2011, to the author. The cigar may just be seen in the ash tray in the photograph on page 83 of Martin Gilbert’s book Churchill At War 1940-1945: His “Finest Hour” In Photographs

  5. Halle, p.10.

  6. G. R. Elton, Political History: Principles and Practice, p. 71. Cited in Himmelfarb, Moral Imagination, p. 197

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