Notes
Introduction
1. From Norman McGowan, My Years with Churchill (London: Pan Books, 1959), quoted in “The Hero and His Valet,” in Churchill by His Contemporaries: An Observer Appreciation (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1965), p. 127.
2. Geoffrey Best, Churchill: A Study in Greatness (London: Hambledon and London, 2001), p. ix.
3. Randolph Churchill, Winston S. Churchill: Young Statesman, 1901–1913, volume II (London: Heinemann, 1967), henceforth Official II, p. 451.
4. Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill: The Challenge of War, 1914–1916, volume III (London: Minerva, 1990), henceforth Official III, p. 329.
5. Waugh writing to Ann Fleming three days after Churchill’s death. Quoted in Charles Moore, “Why the World Is Still in the Shadow of Churchill,” Daily Telegraph, January 29, 2005, from The Letters of Evelyn Waugh.
6. Randolph Churchill, Winston S. Churchill: Youth, 1874–1900, volume I (London: Heinemann, 1966), henceforth Official I, p. 246.
7. Richard Langworth, Churchill’s Wit: The Definitive Collection (London: Ebury Press, 2009), p. 185.
8. Richard Holmes, Churchill’s Bunker: The Secret Headquarters at the Heart of Britain’s Victory (London: Profile Books, 2009), p. 152.
9. G. Best, Churchill, p. 4.
Chapter 1
1. J. H. Plumb, “The Historian,” in A. J. P. Taylor et al., Churchill: Four Faces and the Man (London: Allen Lane, 1969), p. 119.
2. D. W. Riley, “Expansion of Small Towns—Planned and Unplanned,” Journal of the Town Planning Institute, 43 (1957), p. 106.
3. Official I, p. 13.
4. Quoted from The Reminiscences of Lady Randolph Churchill, in David Green, Sir Winston Churchill at Blenheim Palace (Oxford: Alden and Company, 1959), p. 13.
5. Henry Pelling, Winston Churchill (London: Macmillan, 1974), p. 20.
6. Official I, p. 2.
7. Ibid., p. 2.
8. J. H. Plumb, “The Historian,” p. 119.
9. D. Green, Sir Winston Churchill, p. 20.
10. John Forster and Jeri Bapasola, Winston and Blenheim: Churchill’s Destiny (Woodstock, Oxfordshire: Blenheim Palace, 2005), inside front cover.
11. Anita Leslie, Jennie: The Mother of Winston Churchill (Maidstone, Kent: George Mann, 1992), p. 33.
12. Ibid., p. 51.
13. The Reminiscences of Lady Randolph Churchill in D. Green, Sir Winston Churchill, p. 18.
14. Postmarked from Blenheim in January 1882 and reproduced in Official I, p. 43.
15. J. Forster and J. Bapasola, Winston and Blenheim, p. 1.
16. Official II, 268.
17. Mary Soames (ed.), Speaking for Themselves: The Personal Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill (London: Black Swan, 1999), p. 44.
18. Ibid., p. 23.
19. Ibid., p. 46.
20. D. Green, Sir Winston Churchill, p. 8.
21. John Graham, Ditchley Park: The Story of a House and an Institution (Derby: English Life Publications, n.d.).
22. David Niven, The Moon’s a Balloon (London: Penguin, 1994), p. 230.
23. J. Graham, Ditchley Park.
24. Mary Soames, Clementine Churchill: The Revised and Updated Biography (London: Doubleday, 2002) p. 369.
25. D. Green, Sir Winston Churchill, p. 12.
Chapter 2
1. Winston Churchill, My Early Life: A Roving Commission (London: Odhams Press, 1949), p. ix.
2. Ibid., p. 1.
3. Ibid., p. 19.
4. Ibid., p. 6.
5. Ibid., p. 8.
6. See Anthony Storr, “The Man,” in A. J. P. Taylor et al., Churchill: Four Faces and the Man.
7. Official I, p. 52.
8. Ibid., p. 55.
9. W. Churchill, My Early Life, p. 13.
10. G. Best, Churchill, p. 7.
11. Official I, p. 45.
12. H. Pelling, Winston Churchill, p. 34.
13. Official I, p. 102.
14. Ibid., p. 114.
15. Ibid., p. 131.
16. W. Churchill, My Early Life, p. 41.
17. The last verse of his poem “The Influenza,” written in 1890. See “The Complete Poems of Sir Winston Churchill,” compiled by Douglas Hall.
18. Official I, p. 143.
19. Ibid., pp. 154, 157.
20. Ibid., p. 164.
21. Ibid., pp. 196–97.
22. W. Churchill, My Early Life, p. 34.
23. Ibid., p. 35.
24. Ibid., pp. 45–46.
25. Ibid., p. 44.
26. H. Pelling, Winston Churchill, p. 40.
27. Philip Guedalla, Mr. Churchill: A Portrait (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1941), p. 47.
28. Official I, p. 259.
29. Ibid., p. 397.
30. W. Churchill, My Early Life, p. 67.
31. Paul Addison, Churchill: The Unexpected Hero (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 3.
32. W. Churchill, My Early Life, p. 44.
33. Ibid., p. 76.
34. Ibid.
35. Ibid., p. 77.
36. Ibid., p. 83.
37. Ibid.
38. Winston Churchill (ed.), Never Give In! Winston Churchill’s Speeches (London: Pimlico, 2006), p. 30.
39. W. Churchill, My Early Life, p. 88.
40. Ibid., p. 92.
41. Official I, p. 281.
42. Ibid., p. 288.
43. W. Churchill, My Early Life, pp. 101–2.
44. Official I, p. 296.
45. W. Churchill, My Early Life, p. 103.
46. Official I, p. 299.
47. W. Churchill, My Early Life, p. 110.
48. A. J. P. Taylor, “The Statesman,” in A. J. P. Taylor et al., Churchill: Four Faces and the Man, p. 11.
49. Richard Toye, Churchill’s Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made (London: Macmillan, 2010), p. 121.
50. A. J. P. Taylor, “The Statesman,” p. 12.
51. H. Pelling, Winston Churchill, p. 48.
52. Clement Attlee, “The Churchill I Knew,” in Churchill by His Contemporaries, p. 22.
53. Official I, p. 371.
54. David Notley, Winston Churchill Quotations (Andover, Hampshire: Pitkin, 2008).
55. W. Churchill, My Early Life, p. 121.
56. Official I, p. 256.
57. Richard Holmes, In the Footsteps of Churchill (London: Basic Books, 2005), p. 50.
58. W. Churchill, My Early Life, p. 136.
59. John Charmley, Churchill: The End of Glory—A Political Biography (London: Sceptre, 1993), p. 22. Churchill’s four books on the colonial campaigns he took part in between 1896 and 1900 can be read in an abridged form in Winston Churchill, Frontiers and Wars (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1962).
60. Official I, p. 365.
61. Sean Lamb (ed.), The Wisdom of Winston Churchill: Words of War and Peace (London: Arcturus, 2010), p. 45.
62. Official I, p. 381.
63. Tom Hartman, “Foreword” to Winston Churchill, Savrola: A Tale of Revolution in Laurania (London: Leo Cooper, 1990 edition).
64. Official I, p. 384.
65. Ibid., p. 396.
66. Ibid., p. 397.
67. Ibid., p. 426.
68. W. Churchill, My Early Life, p. 172.
69. Ibid., p. 174.
70. Ibid., pp. 177–79.
71. Ibid., p. 188.
72. Ibid., p. 192.
73. Ibid., pp. 192–93.
74. Ibid., p. 194.
75. Ibid., p. 195.
76. Official I, p. 421.
77. W. Churchill, My Early Life, p. 200.
78. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 4.
79. Official I, p. 422.
80. Ibid., p. 429.
81. W. Churchill, My Early Life, p. 222.
82. Ibid., p. 226.
83. Ibid., p. 273.
84. Ibid., p. 294.
85. Official I, p. 507.
86. W. Churchill, My Early Life, p. 295.
87. Ibid., p. 302.
88. Ibid.
89. Ibid., p. 315.
90. Official I, p. 524.
Chapter 3
1. Official I, p. 510.
2. W. Churchill, My Early Life, p. 355.
3. Official II, p. 69.
4. Ibid., p. 4.
5. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 9.
6. “Power of Speech,” Saga Magazine (February 2003).
7. Official II, p. 29.
8. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 11.
9. Ibid.
10. Official II, p. 39.
11. The Star, 7 March 1903.
12. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 13.
13. H. Pelling, Winston Churchill, p. 87.
14. Earl Winterton, “Memories of a Friend,” in Churchill by His Contemporaries, p. 47.
15. Official II, p. 47.
16. Ibid., p. 57.
17. Ibid., p. 53.
18. Roy Jenkins, Churchill (London: Pan Books, 2002), p. 109.
19. Official II, p. 93.
20. R. Jenkins, Churchill, p. 90.
21. A. Leslie, Jennie, p. 276.
22. Official II, p. 207.
23. Ibid., p. 321.
24. R. Jenkins, Churchill, p. 120.
25. R. Toye, Churchill’s Empire, p. 112.
26. Ronald Hyam, “Churchill’s First Years in Ministerial Office,” in Hyam, Understanding the British Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), p. 301.
27. Winston Churchill, My African Journey (London: New English Library, 1972), p. 105.
28. Ibid., p. 7.
29. Official II, p. 228.
30. W. Churchill, My African Journey, p. 11.
31. H. Pelling, Winston Churchill, p. 102.
32. W. Churchill, My African Journey, p. 60.
33. R. Jenkins, Churchill, p. 105.
34. Official II, p. 249.
35. M. Soames, Clementine Churchill, p. 73.
36. Ibid., p. 50.
37. A. Leslie, Jennie, p. 281.
38. M. Soames, Speaking for Themselves, p. 13.
39. M. Soames, Clementine Churchill, p. 81.
40. M. Soames, Speaking for Themselves, p. xvi.
41. Ibid., p. xx.
42. Ibid., p. xvi.
43. Official II, p. 242.
44. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 33.
45. R. Jenkins, Churchill, p. 149.
46. M. Soames, Speaking for Themselves, p. 38.
47. G. Best, Churchill, p. 29.
48. Official II, p. 322.
49. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 35.
50. Ibid., p. 38.
51. S. Lamb (ed.), The Wisdom of Winston Churchill, p. 306.
52. R. Holmes, In the Footsteps of Churchill, p. 81.
53. Robert Lloyd George, David and Winston: How a Friendship Changed History (London: John Murray, 2005), p. 48.
54. Official II, p. 315.
55. Ibid., p. 308.
56. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 41.
57. Official II, p. 518.
58. Ibid., p. 364.
59. G. Best, Churchill, p. 41.
60. Lord Attlee, “The Churchill I Knew,” in Churchill by His Contemporaries, p. 27.
61. Official II, p. 400.
62. Ibid., p. 363.
63. Ibid., p. 341.
64. Official III, p. 121.
Chapter 4
1. S. Lamb (ed.), The Wisdom of Winston Churchill, p. 316.
2. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 46.
3. Basil Liddell Hart, “The Military Strategist,” in A. J. P. Taylor et al., Churchill: Four Faces and the Man, p. 160.
4. M. Soames, Speaking for Themselves, p. 30.
5. Ibid., p. 65.
6. Peter Padfield, Maritime Dominion and the Triumph of the Free World: Naval Campaigns That Shaped the Modern World, 1852–2001 (London: John Murray, 2009), p. 121.
7. M. Soames, Speaking for Themselves, p. 84.
8. Official III, p. 121.
9. Stephen Roskill, Churchill and the Admirals (Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2004), p. 21.
10. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 53.
11. S. Roskill, Churchill and the Admirals, p. 24.
12. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 55.
13. Alfred Gollin, The Impact of Air Power on the British People and Their Government, 1909–1914 (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1989), p. 181.
14. Official II, p. 526.
15. S. Lamb (ed.), The Wisdom of Winston Churchill, p. 276.
16. Official II, p. 581.
17. M. Soames, Speaking for Themselves, p. 26.
18. Official II, p. 455.
19. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 49.
20. Official II, p. 500.
21. Ibid., p. 669.
22. Ibid., p. 682.
23. Official III, p. 30.
24. M. Soames, Speaking for Themselves, p. 96.
25. Ibid., p. 95.
26. Winston Churchill, The World Crisis, 1911–1918 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2007), p. 109.
27. H. Pelling, Winston Churchill, p. 178.
28. R. Jenkins, Churchill, p. 213.
29. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 59.
30. D. Notley, Winston Churchill Quotations.
31. Official III, p. 37.
32. G. Best, Churchill, p. 51.
33. Ibid., p. 52.
34. Ibid.
35. S. Roskill, Churchill and the Admirals, p. 29.
36. Official III, 125.
37. Ibid., p. 129.
38. Ibid., p. 113.
39. S. Roskill, Churchill and the Admirals, p. 55.
40. Michael Howard, “Churchill and the First World War,” in Robert Blake and William Roger Louis (eds.), Churchill: A Major New Assessment of His Life in Peace and War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), p. 136.
41. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 63.
42. S. Roskill, Churchill and the Admirals, p. 42.
43. Official III, p. 273.
44. S. Roskill, Churchill and the Admirals, p. 51.
45. Official III, p. 313.
46. P. Addison, Churchill, p. 79.
47. Official III, p. 453.
48. Ibid., p. 457.
49. Ibid., p. 571.
50. Ibid., p. 473.
51. David Coombs with Minnie Churchill, Sir Winston Churchill’s Life Through His Paintings (London: Chaucer Press, 2003), p. 30.
52. Ibid., p. 107.
53. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 69.
54. Official III, p. 579.
55. Official III, p. 607.
56. M. Soames, Speaking for Themselves, p. 157.
57. Ibid., p. 149.
58. Official III, p. 632.
59. Ibid., p. 658.
60. Lord Kitchener and Winston Churchill: The Dardanelles Commission, Part 1: 1914–1915 (London: The Stationery Office, 2000), p. 34.
61. Ibid., p. 105.
62. Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, 1916–22, volume IV (London: Heinemann, 1975), henceforth Official IV, p. 17.
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