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Giles Romilly, The Privileged Nightmare, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1954
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Kenneth Rose, The Later Cecils, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975
Stephen Roskill, Hankey: man of secrets, Collins, 1974
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A. L. Rowse, All Souls and Appeasement, Macmillan, 1961
Anthony Seldon, 10 Downing Street: The illustrated history, HarperCollins, 1999
Robert Self, Neville Chamberlain: A biography, Ashgate, 2006
J. E. Sewell, Mirror of Britain, Hodder & Stoughton, 1941
Geoffrey Shakespeare, Let Candles Be Brought In, Macdonald, 1949
Emanuel Shinwell, Conflict without Malice, Odhams, 1955
—I’ve Lived Through It All, Gollancz, 1973
—Lead with the Left: My first ninety-six years, Cassell, 1981
William Shirer, Berlin Diary: The journal of a foreign correspondent, 1934–1941, Hamish Hamilton, 1941
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Claire Simpson, Neville’s Island, Amazon, 2012
Nick Smart, Neville Chamberlain, Routledge, 2010
Mary Soames, A Daughter’s Tale: The memoirs of Winston Churchill’s Youngest Daughter, Random House, 2011
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Mary Soames, ed., Speaking for Themselves: The Personal Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill, Doubleday, 1998
Edward L. Spears, Prelude to Dunkirk, William Heinemann, 1954
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INDEX
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A-Day (‘Angriffstag’), 375
Abdication crisis (1936), 211, 294, 395
Addison, Christopher, 1st Viscount Addison, 288
Admiral Graf Spee, 44, 46
Admiralty Board Room, 227, 227
Admiralty House, 224–5
aerial photography, 6
Afridi, HMS, 96, 142, 146, 220
Aitken, Max, Lord Beaverbrook
Cabinet Room meeting, account of, 362, 367
Amery, relationship with, 347–8
Chamberlain, relationship with, 177, 179, 379
Churchill, relationship with, 186, 220, 249–50, 292, 319, 327, 351, 386
Davies, relationship with, 244–5, 249–50, 329–30
Kennedy, meeting with, 329–30
Lloyd George, relationship with, 234, 249, 324
Margesson interview, 365
as Minister of Aircraft Production, 401
and Norway Campaign, 149, 220
and Norway Debate, 10, 11, 249–50, 251
and Romilly, 218, 220
Wood interview, 356
Alexander, A. V., 183, 185, 299, 385
All Party Action Group, 246, 278, 295–6
Allingham, Margery, 72, 149, 150, 151–2, 275
Altmark incident, 44–7, 45, 50, 113
American Mercury, 261
Amery, Bryddie, 241
Amery, Leo Maurice, 237–44, 402
and Abdication crisis (1936), 211, 243, 294
Amery Group, 19, 237, 245–7, 278, 296
and Black Forest, bombing of, 244
and Boer War, 239–40, 244, 248, 355
and Bonar-Law, 241
coalition government, formation of, 362, 364, 366, 367, 369, 379–82, 389
Churchill, relationship with, 13, 62, 219, 238–40, 243, 317, 293
Chamberlain, relationship with, 188, 237–44, 275, 317, 347
death, 402
and diaries, 16, 245
division and aftermath, 305, 317, 324, 327–8, 344–9, 358
as First Lord of the Admiralty, 82, 224
Harrow, studies at, 13, 239
on Hitler, 53, 240
and Hodgson, 17
and India Bill, 239, 243, 294
Lloyd George, relationship with, 234–5
Mount Amery, ascent of, 349
Norway Campaign, 83, 103, 123, 133, 149, 153, 244
Norway Debate, 11, 103, 266, 250, 270–76, 278, 281–2, 287, 291–8, 305, 310, 349
on Operation ‘Weserübung’, 53, 63, 82
oratory, 271
and Salisbury’s Committee, 195
Amery Group, The, 19, 237, 245–7, 278, 296
Åndalsnes, Norway, 6, 79, 88, 99, 108–11, 115, 141, 143, 148, 283, 352
Anderson, Sir John, 10, 40, 318
Andros, Bahamas, 161–5, 161, 163, 170, 262, 304
Andros Fibre Company, 162–5
Anstruther-Gray, William, 306
Ashford, Pam, 65, 72
Asquith, Herbert, 132, 201, 219, 234, 249, 334, 399
Asquith, Margot, Countess of Oxford, 166, 169, 289, 399
Astor, Nancy, Viscountess Astor, 10, 201, 211, 235–6, 251, 260, 286, 296, 305–6, 322
Attlee, Clement, 59, 167, 179, 183, 248–9, 254, 400, 404
All Party Action Group, 245, 246, 248–9
coalition government, formation of, 362, 370–74, 380–82, 385, 388–90, 393, 394
division and aftermath, 6, 10, 15, 323–4, 326–8, 334, 341, 344, 348, 351, 357
Gallipoli Campaign (1915–16), 371
on Halifax, 197
Norway Debate, 152, 262, 264–5, 277, 281–2, 307, 357
Auchinleck, General Claude, 118–19, 230, 291
Auden, W. H., 92
Aurora, HMS, 119–22, 127
Baldwin, Stanley, 12, 241, 319, 337
Balfour, Arthur, 242
Ball, Sir Joseph, 180–81, 207, 279
Bardufoss, Norway, 231
Barry, Sir Charles, 5
Bartlett, Vernon, 5, 6
Bartók, Béla, 176
Batchelor, Major Denzil, 376
Batory, MS, 119
Baxter, Beverley, 321
BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) 140, 149, 205, 294, 378, 404
Beaverbrook, Lord, see Aitken, Max, Lord Beaverbrook
Beckwith, Colonel Charles, 109
Belgium, 329, 376–9, 382–3
Bergen, Norway, 27, 32, 45, 54, 63, 66, 67, 70–72, 80–82, 84, 88
Berlin, Germany, 48, 51, 143, 203, 218, 375
Bernays, Robert, 191, 293–4, 299
Bernd von Arnim, 28
Berney-Ficklin, Brigadier Horatio Pettus, 108
Berry, William, 1st Viscount Camrose, 185, 221, 369–70
Berwick, HMS, 82, 103
Béthouart, Brigadier General Antoine, 232
Bevan, Aneurin, 248, 266
Birmingham Daily Post, 160
Bigham, Clive, 2nd Viscount Mersey, 321
Bison, 146
Blake, Robert, 321
Blücher, 63, 122
Blythe, Ronald, 272–3, 307
Blythmoor, 127
Bodleian Library, Oxford, 254
Boer War (1899–1902), 12, 35, 219, 239–40, 244, 248, 290, 293, 355
Bogø, Denmark, 218
Bonar Law, Andrew, 192, 241, 334–5, 337, 393
Bonham Carter, Leslie, 210
Bonham Carter, Violet, 400
Chamberlain, relationship with, 169
coalition government, formation of, 367, 400
division and aftermath, 310, 321, 325, 326, 352, 354–5
on Halifax, 325
and Namsos evacuation, 150, 248
Norway Debate, 282, 284, 287, 301, 310, 316
on sex, 210
speeches, 242
Boothby, Bob, 78, 245–8, 265, 285–6, 295–6, 305, 310, 357, 372, 401
Boyle, Admiral William, 12th Earl of Cork and Orrery, 118–23, 125–7, 130, 228–31, 290–91, 353, 361
Bracken, Brendan
All Party Action Group, 245
Chamberlain, relationship with, 173, 177
Churchill, promotion of, 16, 18, 292, 293, 320
coalition government, formation of, 366, 386
division and aftermath, 306, 320, 327–8, 342, 351
Norway Campaign, 116
Norway Debate, 251, 292, 293
papers, loss of, 16
and Privy Council, 401
Romilly, capture of, 74
Bräuer, Curt, 54, 145
Bridges, Sir Edward, 40, 398
Bright Astley, Joan, 91
Broadbridge, Sir George, 379
Broch, Theodore, 27, 30, 31, 107
Brook, Norman, 1st Baron Normanbrook, 60
Brooke, General Alan, 77, 115–16
Brooks, Collin, 72, 279
Brown, Gordon, 12
Bruce Lockhart, Robert, 208, 328
Buchan, John, 334
Burgin, Leslie, 106
Butler, Richard ‘Rab’, 9–10, 18, 58, 198, 250, 323–4, 331–2, 334, 337–40, 361, 390–91
Cadogan, Sir Alexander
on Attlee–Chamberlain meeting, 381
Chamberlain, relationship with, 169, 185, 358, 380
coalition government, formation of, 16, 362, 365–6, 374, 377, 380, 381
division and aftermath, 318, 337, 339, 345, 358
Halifax, relationship with, 191, 208, 337, 339, 377
Hoare, relationship with, 400
Operation ‘Gelb’, launch of, 377
Operation ‘Wilfred’, 39, 40, 43, 55–6, 64, 66
MPs, opinion of, 261
Norway Campaign, 84, 117, 138
Wood, meeting with, 354
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p; Café Iris, Narvik, 30, 32, 33, 86, 127
Campbell-Johnson, Alan, 9, 292
Campbell-Preston, Frances, 151, 277
Camrose Lord, see Berry, William, 1st Viscount Camrose
Canaris, Admiral Wilhelm, 47
Canetti, Elias, 8–9, 167–8
Cannadine, David, 228
Cartland, Ronald, 188
Carton de Wiart, Ernestine, 95–6
Carton de Wiart, Major General Adrian, 90, 94–102, 107–8, 115, 117, 133, 137–42, 253, 267, 269
Cayzer, Charles, 321
Cazalet, Victor, 209, 321, 344
Cecil, David, 211
Cedarbank, 109
Chamberlain, Anne, 8, 157–8, 160, 166, 174–5, 225, 282, 288, 292, 370, 408
breakfasts, 174
Chamberlain, Arthur, 168
Chamberlain, Austen, 271
Chamberlain Centenary Movement, 238
Chamberlain Club, 238
Chamberlain, Dorothy, 176
Chamberlain, Francis, 170, 172, 238
Chamberlain, Frank, 172
Chamberlain, Hilda, 53, 60, 114, 159, 169, 174, 178, 187, 206, 395
Chamberlain, Ida, 114, 170, 178, 186, 206, 261, 318, 343
Chamberlain, Joseph, 160, 163–4, 237–8
Chamberlain, Neville, 157–89, 407–10
Altmark incident, 46, 47
Amery, relationship with, 237–44, 344–5, 275, 317, 347
appearance and dress, 168–9, 172–3
art, love of, 176
Bahamas, life in, 161–5, 170, 174, 188, 262, 304
biographies of, 14, 17, 167, 262
bird collection, 163–5, 228
blockade of Germany, 41, 59, 233
cancer, 173, 396
Chequers, 158, 174–6
Churchill, dinner with (1939), 159–61, 184
Churchill, loyalty of, 18, 38, 182–7, 317–18, 351
coalition government, formation of, 361–75, 376–99
and cigars, 19, 162, 176
death (1940), 14, 356, 396, 402, 410
division and aftermath, 304–11, 323–7, 329–49, 351–60
fishing, 169, 189
Hitler, relationship with, 53, 59–60, 176, 320, 367
‘Hitler missed the bus’ comment, 59–60, 261, 262, 264
humour, 158
‘I have friends in this House’ statement, 285, 358
leadership, challenges to, 7, 192–4, 234, 237–51
legacy, 14–19, 157, 159, 165–8
and Lindsay Memorandum, 253–4
Munich Agreement (1938), 26, 166–7, 182, 184, 204, 367
Namsos evacuation, 6, 79, 354
Norman, death of (1917), 14, 15, 170–71
Norway Campaign, 26, 68, 72, 75, 79–81, 86–9, 109, 111–16, 125, 135–6, 139, 141, 301
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