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by Nicholas Shakespeare


  Norway Campaign, first statement on, 147–8, 150

  Norway Debate, 11, 90, 152, 157, 168, 189, 219–20, 226, 261–4, 269, 273–9, 284–302

  Operation ‘Avonmouth’, 57

  Operation ‘Wilfred’, 39–41, 42, 55–60, 62, 67

  ornithology, 163–5, 173–4, 228

  personality, 19, 158, 168–70

  piano playing, 176

  press, 157, 177–80

  on Quisling, 48, 243

  resignation (1940), 389–99

  speeches, 38, 59–60, 262

  surveillance, 16, 180–3

  and Treasury, 334

  tree planting, 175

  umbrella, 19, 161, 162, 169, 176, 350

  and wine, 19, 162

  Chamberlain, Norman, 14–15, 170–72, 171, 334, 340

  Channon, Henry ‘Chips’

  Chamberlain, relationship with, 157, 177, 184, 187, 376

  Churchill, relationship with, 177, 184, 187, 232, 376

  coalition government, formation of, 364, 374, 379

  division and aftermath, 305, 307–9, 328–9, 343, 351, 354, 357

  Halifax, relationship with, 198–9

  on Norway Campaign, 152, 177, 215, 376

  Norway Debate, 263, 267, 285, 288, 300, 302

  on Wood for PM, 10

  Chartwell, Kent, 32, 34–5, 37, 221, 228, 230

  Chasseurs Alpins, 98, 100–101, 107, 119, 139, 211, 217, 229

  Chatfield, Ernle, 1st Baron Chatfield, 39, 62

  Chequers, Buckinghamshire, 34, 46, 157–8, 174–5, 261, 408

  Chicago Daily News, 31, 107

  Chobry, MS, 96–8

  Churchill, Clementine

  Admiralty House, residence at, 224

  division and aftermath, 321, 325, 350–51, 359

  First World War (1914–18), 125

  Norway, visit to (1948), 1

  Norway Campaign, 219–20, 222

  Norway Debate, 227–8, 230, 232, 292, 299

  Romilly family, relationship with, 17, 34–5, 37, 290

  Winston becomes PM, 375, 396

  Churchill, John, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 15

  Churchill, Mary, 8, 160–61, 224, 230, 282, 299–300, 302, 305, 376, 378

  Churchill, Pamela, 46, 47, 224

  Churchill, Randolph, 224, 367, 375, 378, 396

  Churchill, Sir Winston

  and Abdication crisis (1936), 211, 243, 294

  Admiralty House, residence at, 224–6

  and alcohol, 20, 184, 206, 221–3, 232, 338

  appearance and dress, 223–4, 225–6, 338

  bathing habits, 226

  Boer War (1899–1902), 12, 35, 219, 239–40, 244, 290, 293

  bricklaying hobby, 175

  as Chancellor of the Exchequer, 334

  Chamberlain, loyalty to, 18, 38, 182–7, 317–18, 351

  Chamberlains, dinner with (1939), 159–61, 184

  on Chasseurs Alpins, 98

  Chiefs of Staff Committee, command of, 187

  and cigars, 138, 206, 226, 350

  coalition government, formation of (1940), 11, 16, 361–75, 376–99

  death (1965), 20

  diary, fear of keeping, 16

  division and aftermath, 305, 309, 332, 337–40, 343, 346, 348–9, 350–56

  as First Lord of the Admiralty, 18, 19–20, 38, 39, 107, 187

  Gallipoli Campaign (1915–16), see under Gallipoli Campaign

  Gathering Storm, The, see under Gathering Storm, The

  General Strike (1926), 17

  Harrow, studies at, 13, 239

  on ‘hinge of fate’, 10

  history, writing of, 12–16, 17

  History of the English-Speaking Peoples, A, 15, 42, 134

  and House of Commons, bombing of (1941), 5

  on House of Commons, judgement of, 8

  and India Bill, 17, 239, 243, 294

  Kipling Memorial inauguration (1939), 37

  Military Coordination Committee, command of, 62, 70, 88, 112–15, 121, 134

  mood swings, 69, 133–4

  Munich Debate (1938), 182, 184

  on Mussolini, 240

  on Napoleon, 13, 67

  Narvik, obsession with, 17, 25, 33–4, 38, 70–71, 84, 123, 138, 207, 229, 282, 290, 352

  ‘Navy is here’ quote, 46, 68

  neutral countries, broadcast on (1940), 206, 294

  Norway, visit to (1948), 1

  Norway Campaign, see under Norway Campaign

  Norway Debate, 188, 226–8, 263–4, 269, 276, 288, 290–95, 298–302

  and Operation ‘Gelb’, 377–8

  premiership, candidacy for, 177–87, 204, 240, 249–50, 298–9, 318–28, 338–40, 343, 355–6

  and rearmament, 167

  and Reform Club, 244

  and Russia, alliance with, 243

  sexual appetite, 228

  siestas, 226

  smear campaign against, 184–5

  speech impediment, 151, 197, 222, 293

  speechwriting and oratory, 11, 227–8, 261, 292–4

  Sudan Campaign (1898), 35, 105, 113

  surveillance of, 182

  and tariff reform, 243

  temperament, 185, 222

  throat specialist, 294

  and Tonypandy riots (1910), 17

  and Trondheim, 87–9, 99, 112–18, 130–33, 178, 301

  Truth articles, 181

  on Vikings, 67

  ‘wild man’ nickname, 160, 186

  World Crisis, The, 13

  Clark, Kenneth, 175

  Clarke, Lieutenant Colonel Dudley, 109–10

  Cliveden, Buckinghamshire, 235, 260

  coalition government, 341–2, 346

  Colditz, 406

  Cole, Valerie, 158–9, 169, 174–5

  Collection of Stories of Haunted Houses, Apparitions, and Supernatural Occurrences, A, (Wood), 213

  Colville, John

  on Anne’s breakfasts, 174

  on Churchill, 34, 37, 219–20

  coalition government, formation of, 378, 390–91, 398

  division and aftermath, 305, 319, 330

  and Norway Campaign, 69, 106, 113, 124, 134–6, 149, 152

  and Norway Debate, 250, 264–5, 288, 292

  and Operation ‘Weserübung’, 66

  and Operation ‘Wilfred’, 41, 59, 60

  on Sinclair, 183

  Conservative Party, 6, 248–9, 304, 306–7, 316, 319, 320–21, 379–80

  Cooper, Diana, 224

  Cooper, Sir Alfred Duff

  Churchill, support for, 187

  division and aftermath, 10, 305, 307–8, 315, 320, 349

  as First Lord of the Admiralty, 224

  and ‘Glamour Boys’, 244

  as Minister of Information, 401

  Norway Debate, 247, 261, 267–8, 275

  on Stanley, 200

  Coote, Colin, 354–5, 389

  Copenhagen, Denmark, 66

  Corbin, Charles, 361

  Corbyn, Jeremy, 247

  Cork, Admiral, see Boyle, Admiral William, 12th Earl of Cork and Orrery

  Cossack, HMS, 44–6, 50

  Cotterell, Lady Lettice, 359

  Cowles, Virginia, 185, 397

  Cranborne, Lord, see Gascoyne-Cecil, Robert, Viscount Cranborne

  Cripps, Stafford, 10, 73, 177, 193, 319, 324

  Croft, Pte Joseph, 143

  Cromwell, Oliver, 271, 275–6

  Crookshank, Harry, 148–9, 247

  Crossman, Zita, 387

  Crozier, William, 221

  Cunliffe-Lister, Philip, 1st Earl of Swinton 409

  Cunningham, Admiral Andrew, 78, 80

  Curacoa, HMS, 111

  Curzon, George, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleson, 8, 12, 192, 197, 200, 202, 212, 241, 332–3, 339

  Curzon, Irene, 2nd Baroness Ravensdale, 191, 202–4, 208–11, 347

  Curzon, Mary, 202, 209

  Daily Express, 27, 30, 33, 36, 37, 60, 69, 72, 149, 249, 259, 330

  Daily Herald, 250, 279, 281, 336, 346
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br />   Daily Mail, 47, 177, 193, 329, 331

  Daily Mirror, 122, 252, 329, 334

  Daily News, 17

  Daily Sketch, 138

  Daily Telegraph, 54, 278, 410

  Daily Worker, 29, 264, 315, 387, 395

  Daladier, Edouard, 56, 58, 61, 212

  Dalton, Hugh

  coalition government, formation of, 382–3, 385–6, 387–8

  division and aftermath, 307, 315, 322–3, 331, 334, 342, 345

  ‘green-eyed jungle’ comment, 315

  and Norway Campaign, 152, 177, 228

  and Norway Debate, 264, 278–9, 281, 283, 301

  Dardanelles Campaign, see Gallipoli Campaign

  Davidson, J. C. C., 180, 337

  Davies, Clement, 245

  All Party Action Group, 244–50, 278, 295

  Churchill’s Norway Campaign speech, 75

  coalition government, formation of, 370–72, 381, 388, 401

  death (1962), 401

  division and aftermath, 329–30, 348, 352, 356–7

  Norway Debate, 19, 264, 270, 272, 278, 284, 286, 295

  Davies, David, 1st Baron Davies, 234, 249–50

  Dawson, Geoffrey, 72, 75, 138, 179, 191–3, 243, 252–3, 329, 346, 386

  De Chair, Somerset, 296, 305, 316

  De Macedo, Diogo, 165

  De Vere Cole, Horace, 158–9

  Denmark, 53, 63, 66, 69

  Derby, Lord see Stanley, Edward, 17th Earl of Derby

  Desert Island Discs, 12

  Dietl, General Eduard, 28, 52, 119, 127, 229

  Dilks, David, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 60, 167, 208, 317, 327, 339, 347, 358

  Dill, General Sir John, 78

  division vote, 21, 249, 262, 281, 284, 295, 303–11, 304, 309

  Dönitz, Admiral Karl, 129

  Donner, Patrick, 409

  Dorchester Hotel, London, 190, 193, 204–5, 206, 208–9, 368

  Dormer, Sir Cecil, 83

  Douglas-Home, Alec, Lord Dunglass

  Chamberlain, relationship with, 41, 168–9, 178, 182, 184, 250

  coalition government, formation of, 386, 390, 391, 393, 398

  division and aftermath, 305, 324, 334, 357

  and Norway Debate, 297–8

  and Norway Campaign, 133

  Dreadnought, HMS, 68, 159

  Dugdale, Blanche ‘Baffy’, 261, 265, 269, 278, 327, 337

  Dugdale, Nancy, 320

  Duggan, Hubert, 308

  Duke of Windsor, see Edward VIII, king of Great Britain and Ireland

  Duncombe, Charles ‘Sim’, 3rd Earl of Feversham, 212, 404

  Dunglass, Lord, see Douglas-Home, Alec, Lord Dunglass

  Dunkirk evacuation, 11, 141, 231

  Eade, Charles, 223

  Eden, Sir Anthony, 204, 207, 350

  on Cabinet reshuffle, 62

  coalition government, formation of, 375, 381, 384, 401, 408

  division and aftermath, 10, 306, 307, 318, 320, 332, 337, 350–51, 355

  as Dominions Secretary, 40

  ‘Glamour Boys’, 194, 243–4

  on Hoare, 74

  as Secretary of State for War, 401

  Edward VIII, king of the United Kingdom, 181, 204, 211, 293, 325, 395

  Edwards, Captain Ralph, 54, 63, 78, 87, 113

  Edwards, Sir Charles, 281, 303

  Eidsvold, HNoMS, 28

  El Kantara, SS, 140

  Elizabeth II, queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 198, 397

  Elliot, Walter, 10, 306

  Empress of Australia, RMS, 82–3, 88, 96–8

  Emrys-Evans, Paul, 148, 184, 194–5, 244–5, 254, 280, 295, 298, 305, 327, 386, 402

  Evans, Admiral Edward, 57, 86

  Evensen, Birger, 100, 101–2, 137, 142

  Evensen, Storm, 94, 98, 100

  Faber, David, 242, 272, 276, 315

  Fahsing, Fanny, 98–9

  Faulkner, Colonel Walter, 83, 291

  Feiling, Keith, 168

  Fellow Travellers (Worsley), 36

  Feuertaufe, 145

  Feversham, Lord, see Duncombe, Charles ‘Sim’, 3rd Earl of Feversham

  Finland, 56–8

  Fitzgerald, Major Desmond, 110–11, 122, 127

  FitzRoy, Captain Edward, 21, 260, 260, 266–7, 319

  Fleet Air Arm, 42

  Fleischer, Major General Carl, 122

  Fleming, Captain Peter (‘Flea’), 90–92, 91, 93, 404

  on Chamberlain, 172, 173

  Churchill, relationship with, 182

  death (1971), 404

  death, report of (1940), 136, 138

  and Lindsay Memorandum, 147, 253, 254

  Namsos evacuation, 137–9, 141–2, 145–7, 150–51, 157, 214, 217, 252–4, 280–81

  Norway Campaign, 71, 73, 90–102, 110, 115, 119, 134, 214, 290, 307, 377, 407

  Fleming, Ian, 90, 320

  Fleming, Major Valentine, 91–2

  Foch, Marshal Ferdinand, 219

  Foley, Frank, 86

  Foot, Dingle, 263, 278, 284, 285–6, 288, 300, 306–7

  Forbes, Admiral Sir Charles, 64, 69–71, 79–80, 87, 99, 112, 117, 123, 126

  Fowler, Tom, 82–3, 88, 97–8, 103–5, 140–41, 143–4, 252, 404, 405

  France, 58, 60–61, 90

  Fulness of Days (Lord Halifax), 14

  Furious, 86

  Gallacher, William 319

  Gallipoli Campaign (1915–16), 13, 17, 20, 35, 78, 88, 94, 99, 107, 129, 130

  Attlee, 371

  Dardanelles Commission (1917), 134

  Godfrey, 124

  Keyes, 77, 132

  Moorehead on, 259

  and Norway Campaign, 124–7, 134, 137, 140, 147, 184, 219, 220, 263, 269

  and Operation ‘Wilfred’, 39, 40, 64

  Gamelin, General Maurice, 54, 60–61, 63, 67–8

  Gandhi, Mohandas, 197, 203, 336

  Garrowby Hall, Yorkshire, 191–3, 197, 197, 205, 335

  Garvin, J. L., 235–6

  Gascoyne-Cecil, James, 4th Marquess of Salisbury, 60, 176, 193–5, 221, 246–7, 253–4, 295, 323, 346

  Gascoyne-Cecil, Robert, Viscount Cranborne, 148, 188, 193–4, 221

  Gathering Storm, The (Churchill)

  on Cabinet Room meeting, 363

  on Chamberlain, 14, 59, 161, 352, 366, 367

  on George VI, 396

  and history, writing of, 13

  and Lindsay, 254

  on Macksey, 61, 125

  on Namsos evacuation, 141

  on Operation ‘Hammer’, 112, 117

  publication of (1948), 1

  and Romilly, 406

  Geddes, Sir Auckland, 343

  George V, king of the United Kingdom, 332, 393–5

  George VI, king of the United Kingdom

  Bracken, relationship with, 401

  coalition government, formation of, 11, 277, 319, 324, 327, 333–4, 374, 375, 390, 393–7, 401

  Edward VIII, relationship with, 181

  Haakon VII, relationship with, 43

  Halifax, relationship with, 18, 43, 198, 214, 324, 327, 333–4, 374, 390, 393

  Hardinge, relationship with, 184, 277, 319, 333, 374

  Norway Campaign, 70, 112, 214

  German, Lt Colonel Guy, 110

  Getz, Colonel Ole, 142, 217

  Gibbs, George, 28

  Gielgud, John, 178–9, 259, 310

  Gilbert, Martin, 12, 276, 292

  Gladiator Mark II fighters, 111, 316

  Glorious, HMS, 111

  Glyn, Elinor, 212

  Glyn, Sir Ralph, 151

  Gneisenau, 63

  Godfrey, Admiral John, 13, 42, 44, 77–8, 88, 112, 124, 125, 220

  Goebbels, Joseph, 50, 52–3, 204

  Goering, Hermann, 52, 101, 203–4

  Gort, Lord, see Vereker, John, 6th Viscount Gort

  Gourock, Scotland, 252

  Gower, Sir Robert, 343

  Grand Hotel, Namsos, 138

  Grandi, Count Dino, 212

  Green, S. J. D., 195, 321, 346
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  Greenwood, Arthur, 73, 242, 246, 277, 301, 319, 341–2, 344, 348, 362, 370–74, 381, 387–8, 400

  Grom, 229

  Groves, General Percy, 117

  Gubbins, Colonel Colin, 139, 352

  Guderian, General, 376

  Haakon VII, king of Norway, 43, 68, 83

  Haarr, Geirr, 34, 71, 81, 128

  Haldane, Richard, 1st Viscount Haldane, 62

  Halifax, Dorothy, see Wood, Dorothy, Countess of Halifax

  Halifax, Lord, see Wood, Edward, Lord Halifax

  Hankey, Maurice, 1st Baron Hankey, 39, 54, 124, 242, 343, 384, 400

  Hannon, Sir Patrick, 357

  Hardinge, Sir Alexander, 184, 277, 333, 341, 362, 374, 377, 392, 394–5

  Hardy, HMS, 64, 71, 85, 85

  Harmsworth, Harold, 1st Viscount Rothermere, 177

  Harriman, Florence, 53, 83

  Harris, Sir Percy, 183, 284, 286, 306, 326, 380

  Harrovian, 13

  Harrow School, 238–9

  Harstad, Norway, 119–23, 128–9

  Hart-Davis, Duff, 91–2

  Harvey, Oliver, 283, 335

  Harvie-Watt, George, 169

  Hassan, Haji Mohammed bin Abdullah, 95

  Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, 253

  Haussels, Major Alfred, 29

  Headlam, Cuthbert, 400

  Hely-Hutchinson, Maurice, 316

  Henderson, Nevile, 203

  Henderson, Willie, 236

  Heppel, George, 94

  Herbert, A. P., 262

  Herbert, Sir Dennis, 262, 270, 272

  Hereford Times, 86, 359, 368

  Herrmann, Colonel Kurt, 407

  Highcliffe Hotel, Bournemouth, 387–8

  Hingston, Lieutenant Colonel Walter, 140

  History of the English-Speaking Peoples (Churchill), 15, 42, 134

  Hitler, Adolf

  Altmark incident, 48–50

  Amery, meeting with, 240

  Britain, plans to invade, 37, 145, 150, 177, 190, 352

  Chamberlain, relations with, 41, 53, 59, 161, 166, 172, 176, 180, 263, 329

  Churchill, relations with, 221, 320, 321

  Halifax, meeting with, 203

  and iron-ore, 27

  Lloyd George, relations with, 235

  Munich Agreement (1938), 161, 166, 172, 176

  Operation ‘Gelb’, 26, 49, 50, 52, 329, 352, 375–7, 379

  Operation ‘Weserübung’, 1, 41, 48–53, 55, 57, 62, 63, 65, 66–71, 100, 101, 143–5, 147, 233

  Poland, invasion of (1939), 186, 367

  Prague, invasion of (1939), 180

  and prisoners of war, 218

  Hitler Speaks (Rauschning), 53, 145

  Hoare, Sir Samuel

  Cabinet reshuffle, 62

  coalition government, formation of, 370, 377, 379, 384, 400–401

  division and aftermath, 10, 319, 323, 354, 346, 355, 357–9

  as First Lord of the Admiralty, 224

  Harrow, studies at, 238

  Norway Campaign, 70, 74, 113, 138, 178, 184, 228, 283–4, 298, 316

 

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