Churchill

by Ashley Jackson

  63. Official IV, p. 5.

  64. Ibid., p. 22.

  65. H. Pelling, Winston Churchill, p. 229.

  66. Official IV, p. 32.

  67. Ibid., p. 38.

  68. Ibid., p. 47.

  69. Ibid.

  70. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 75.

  71. Official IV, p. 133.

  72. M. Soames, Speaking for Themselves, p. 209.

  73. Ibid., p. 215.

  74. Official IV, p. 151.

  75. M. Soames, Speaking for Themselves, p. 217.

  76. W. Churchill, The World Crisis, p. 839.

  77. Gordon Craig, “Churchill and Germany,” in R. Blake and W. Louis (eds.), Churchill, p. 28.

  Chapter 5

  1. Official IV, p. 180.

  2. G. Best, Churchill, p. 93.

  3. R. Langworth, Churchill’s Wit, p. 137.

  4. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 77.

  5. S. Lamb (ed.), Wit and Wisdom, p. 57.

  6. Official IV, p. 915.

  7. R. Lloyd George, David and Winston, p. 166.

  8. Gordon Pirie, Imperial Airways (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009), p. 31.

  9. M. Soames, Speaking for Themselves, p. 249.

  10. Official IV, p. 528.

  11. R. Langworth, Churchill’s Wit, p. 79.

  12. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 83.

  13. Ibid., p. 85.

  14. M. Soames, Speaking for Themselves, p. 268.

  15. W. Churchill, The World Crisis, p. xvii.

  16. Lord Moran, Churchill at War, 1940–1945 (London: Constable and Robinson, 2002), p. 229.

  17. R. Jenkins, Churchill, p. 416.

  18. M. Soames, Speaking for Themselves, p. 300.

  19. S. Roskill, Churchill and the Admirals, p. 73.

  20. Ibid., p. 79.

  21. R. Jenkins, Churchill, p. 396.

  22. M. Soames, Speaking for Themselves, p. 274.

  23. Ibid., p. 330.

  24. Ibid., p. 331.

  25. Ibid.

  26. J. Charmley, Churchill, p. 219.

  27. Ibid., p. 219.

  28. Graham Stewart, Burying Caesar: Churchill, Chamberlain and the Battle for the Tory Party (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1999), p. 45.

  29. M. Soames, Speaking for Themselves, p. 340.

  30. Robert Rhodes James, “The Parliamentarian, Orator, Statesman,” in R. Blake and W. Louis (eds.), Churchill, p. 508.

  31. Charles Murphy and John Davenport, “The Lives of Winston Churchill,” Life, May 21, 1945, p. 100.

  32. H. Pelling, Winston Churchill, p. 327.

  33. M. Soames, Speaking for Themselves, p. 328.

  34. Ibid., p. 313.

  35. Ibid., p. 280.

  36. Ibid., p. 281.

  37. D. Coombs, Sir Winston Churchill’s Life Through His Paintings, p. 126.

  Chapter 6

  1. G. Best, Churchill, p. 152.

  2. G. Stewart, Burying Caesar, p. 48.

  3. R. Langworth, Churchill’s Wit, p. 21.

  4. M. Soames, Speaking for Themselves, p. 354.

  5. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 97.

  6. Ibid., p. 98.

  7. R. Langworth, Churchill’s Wit, p. 133.

  8. M. Soames, Speaking for Themselves, p. 370.

  9. G. Stewart, Burying Caesar, pp. 52–53.

  10. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 48.

  11. R. Langworth, Churchill’s Wit, p. 102.

  12. G. Stewart, Burying Caesar, p. 62.

  13. Ibid., p. 199.

  14. G. Craig, “Churchill and Germany,” p. 36.

  15. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 101.

  16. Ibid., p. 107.

  17. Ibid., p. 108.

  18. G. Best, Churchill, p. 150.

  19. S. Lamb (ed.), Wit and Wisdom, p. 58.

  20. M. Soames, Speaking for Themselves, p. 408.

  21. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 122.

  22. M. Soames, Speaking for Themselves, p. 402.

  23. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, pp. 153–54.

  24. Ibid., p. 155.

  25. Harold Nicolson Diaries and Letters, 1930–1964 (London: Collins, 1980), p. 106.

  26. S. Lamb (ed.), Wit and Wisdom, p. 279.

  27. Ibid., p. 21.

  28. M. Soames, Speaking for Themselves, p. 402.

  29. Ibid., p. 427.

  30. Ibid., p. 433.

  31. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 163.

  32. R. Jenkins, Churchill, p. 472.

  33. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 166.

  34. Ibid., p. 178.

  35. Ibid., p. 183.

  36. G. Stewart, Burying Caesar, p. 341.

  37. R. Jenkins, Churchill, p. 541.

  38. Ibid., p. 540.

  39. G. Stewart, Burying Caesar, p. 372.

  40. Winston Churchill, The Second World War, volume I, The Gathering Storm (London: Cassell, 1948), p. 320.

  Chapter 7

  1. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 197.

  2. S. Lamb (ed.), Wit and Wisdom, p. 261.

  3. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 198.

  4. R. Jenkins, Churchill, p. 559.

  5. S. Roskill, Churchill and the Admirals, p. 93.

  6. Sir Ian Jacob, “Churchill as a War Leader,” in Churchill by His Contemporaries, p. 77.

  7. Lord Attlee, “The Churchill I Knew,” in Churchill by His Contemporaries, p. 19.

  8. Lord Moran, Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1945–1960 (London: Constable and Robinson, 2006), p. 408.

  9. Ibid., p. 419.

  10. Harold Nicolson Diaries, p. 167.

  11. Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill: Finest Hour, 1939–1941, volume VI (London: Minerva, 1983), henceforth Official VI, p. 49.

  12. J. Charmley, Churchill, p. 373.

  13. S. Lamb (ed.), Wit and Wisdom, p. 354.

  14. Official VI, p. 298.

  15. R. Jenkins, Churchill, p. 577.

  16. Official VI, p. 333.

  17. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 206.

  18. Enoch Powell interview, “North Africa 1939–1945,” Department of Sound Records, Imperial War Museum, accession number 0044/08. Thanks to Dr. Andrew Stewart for this reference.

  19. Martin Gilbert, “My Life with Churchill.”

  20. A. J. P. Taylor, “The Statesman,” in A. J. P. Taylor et al., Four Faces and the Man, p. 38.

  21. R. Langworth, Churchill’s Wit, p. 92.

  22. Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill: Road to Victory, 1941–1945 (London: Minerva, 1990), henceforth Official VII, p. 511.

  23. Commentator, “Churchill: Spokesman of Empire,” Empire Review (June 1943), p. 17.

  24. G. Stewart, Burying Caesar, p. 387.

  25. Harold Nicolson Diaries, p. 167.

  26. Lord Moran, The Struggle for Survival, p. 409.

  27. Sir Ian Jacob, “Churchill as a War Leader,” in Churchill by His Contemporaries, p. 75.

  28. P. Addison, Churchill, p. 182.

  29. Aneurin Bevan, “History’s Impresario,” in Churchill by His Contemporaries, p. 62.

  30. P. Addison, Churchill, p. 154.

  31. R. Lloyd George, David and Winston, p. 228.

  32. Sir Ian Jacob, “Churchill as a War Leader,” in Churchill by His Contemporaries, pp. 68–69.

  33. Lord Attlee, “The Churchill I Knew,” in Churchill by His Contemporaries, p. 33.

  34. Edmund Warde, The Silver Lining (Lyminge, Kent: Edmund Warde, 1941), p. 5.

  35. “Friend of a Nation,” in Churchill by His Contemporaries, pp. 11–12.

  36. Finest Hour; The Journal of Winston Churchill, p. 134 (2007).

  37. Lord Attlee, “The Churchill I Knew,” in Churchill by His Contemporaries, p. 14.

  38. Dean Acheson, “The Supreme Artist,” in Churchill by His Contemporaries, p. 39.

  39. Lord Attlee, “The Churchill I Knew,” in Churchill by His Contemporaries, p. 17.

  40.
Lord Moran, Churchill at War, p. 127.

  41. P. Addison, Churchill, p. 182.

  42. Lord Moran, Churchill at War, p. 61.

  43. Sir Ian Jacob, “Churchill as a War Leader,” in Churchill by His Contemporaries, p. 66.

  44. R. Jenkins, Churchill, p. 589.

  45. A. Bevan, “History’s Impresario,” in Churchill by His Contemporaries, p. 61.

  46. R. Langworth, Churchill’s Wit, p. 109.

  47. Official VI, pp. 570–71.

  48. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 233.

  49. A. Bevan, “History’s Impresario,” in Churchill by His Contemporaries, p. 59.

  50. Richard Holmes, In the Footsteps of Churchill, p. 19.

  51. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 242.

  52. Ibid., p. 252.

  53. Lord Attlee, “The Churchill I Knew,” in Churchill by His Contemporaries, p. 17.

  54. S. Lamb (ed.), Wit and Wisdom, p. 26.

  55. Official VI, p. 1010.

  56. H. V. Morton, Atlantic Meeting: An Account of Mr. Churchill’s Voyage in HMS Prince of Wales, in August 1941, and the Conference with President Roosevelt That Resulted in the Atlantic Charter (London, 1943).

  57. Official VII, pp. 308–9.

  58. Ibid., p. 480.

  59. Sir Ian Jacob, “Churchill as a War Leader,” in Churchill by His Contemporaries.

  60. Official VII, p. 238.

  61. Ibid., p. 282.

  62. Ibid., p. 358.

  63. Ibid., p. 372.

  64. Sir Ian Jacob, “Churchill as a War Leader,” in Churchill by His Contemporaries, p. 86.

  65. Official VII, pp. 964, 1296.

  66. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 281.

  67. Ibid., p. 285.

  68. R. Langworth, Churchill’s Wit, p. 22.

  69. Sir Ian Jacob, “Churchill as a War Leader,” in Churchill by His Contemporaries, p. 66.

  70. S. Lamb (ed.), Wit and Wisdom, p. 361.

  71. R. Toye, Churchill’s Empire, p. 182.

  72. S. Lamb (ed.), Wit and Wisdom, p. 310.

  73. Official VII, p. 34.

  74. M. Soames, Speaking for Themselves, p. 460.

  75. Lord Moran, Churchill at War, p. 26.

  76. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 322.

  77. Harold Nicolson Diaries, p. 225.

  78. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 325.

  79. Ibid., p. 327.

  80. Harold Nicolson Diaries, p. 223.

  81. Lord Moran, Churchill at War, p. 29.

  82. S. Lamb (ed.), Wit and Wisdom, p. 318.

  83. Ibid., p. 91.

  84. Official VII, p. 65.

  85. Lord Moran, Churchill at War, p. 54.

  86. Ibid., p. 83.

  87. Official VII, p. 71.

  88. R. Langworth, Churchill’s Wit, p. 13.

  89. Lord Moran, Churchill at War, p. 84.

  90. Ibid., p. 45.

  91. R. Jenkins, Churchill, p. 697.

  92. Lord Moran, Churchill at War, p. 79.

  93. Ibid., p. 80.

  94. Official VII, p. 172.

  95. Lord Moran, Churchill at War, p. 72.

  96. Official VII, p. 186.

  97. Ibid., p. 217.

  98. Ibid., p. 226.

  99. Ibid., p. 94.

  100. Ibid., p. 96.

  101. Ibid., p. 95.

  102. Ibid, p. 306.

  103. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 352.

  104. S. Lamb (ed.), Wit and Wisdom, p. 334.

  105. M. Soames, Speaking for Themselves, p. 474.

  106. Official VII, p. 339.

  107. Lord Moran, Churchill at War, p. 99.

  108. Official VII, p. 409.

  109. Ibid., p. 404.

  110. Lord Attlee, “The Churchill I Knew,” in Churchill by His Contemporaries, p. 26.

  111. Official VII, p. 431.

  112. Ibid., p. 432.

  113. Ibid., p. 484.

  114. M. Soames, Speaking for Themselves, p. 487.

  115. Nicholas Sarantakes, “Churchill Versus the Chiefs,” in Sarantakes, Allies Against the Rising Sun: The United States, the British Nations and the Defeat of Imperial Japan (Lawrence, Kansas: Kansas University Press, 2009), p. 84.

  116. Colin Baxter, “Winston Churchill: Military Strategist?,” Military Affairs (February 1983), p. 8.

  117. N. Sarantakes, “Churchill Versus the Chiefs,” p. 37.

  118. Ibid., p. 42.

  119. Ibid., p. 113.

  120. Lord Moran, Churchill at War, p. 171.

  121. Ibid., p. 187.

  122. Official VII, p. 655.

  123. R. Langworth, Churchill’s Wit, p. 158.

  124. Official VII, p. 807.

  125. Ibid., p. 914.

  126. Ibid., p. 915.

  127. Ibid., caption to photograph 31.

  128. M. Soames, Speaking for Themselves, p. 500.

  129. Official VII, p. 951.

  130. Lord Moran, Churchill at War, p. 138.

  131. S. Lamb (ed.), Wit and Wisdom, p. 347.

  132. Official VII, p. 971.

  133. Ibid., p. 968.

  134. Ibid., p. 993.

  135. Lord Moran, Churchill at War, p. 198.

  136. Ibid., p. 224.

  137. Official VII, p. 1151.

  138. Ibid., p. 1107.

  139. S. Lamb (ed.), Wit and Wisdom, p. 154.

  140. M. Soames, Speaking for Themselves, p. 512.

  141. S. Lamb (ed.), Wit and Wisdom, p. 369.

  142. Lord Moran, Churchill at War, p. 227.

  143. S. Lamb (ed.), Wit and Wisdom, p. 372.

  144. Official VII, p. 1233.

  145. Ibid., p. 1298.

  146. Lord Moran, Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, p. 56.

  147. Official VII, p. 1332.

  148. Lord Moran, Churchill at War, p. 305.

  149. Ibid., p. 310.

  150. Lord Moran, Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, p. 6.

  151. W. Churchill (ed.), Never Give In!, p. 391.

  152. Official VII, p. 1351.

  153. Lord Attlee, “The Churchill I Knew,” in Churchill by His Contemporaries, p. 16.

  154. Ibid., p. 19.

  155. Lord Moran, Churchill at War, p. 341.

  156. Barrie Pitt, Churchill and the Generals (Barnsley, Pen and Sword, 2004), p. 123.

  157. S. Roskill, Churchill and the Admirals, p. 125.

  158. Ibid., p. 282.

  159. John Keegan, “Churchill’s Strategy,” in R. Blake and W. Louis (eds.), Churchill, p. 328.

  160. Lord Attlee, “The Churchill I Knew,” in Churchill by His Contemporaries, p. 33.

  161. John Charmley, “Once a Whig . . . ,” Guardian, October 13, 2001, review of Roy Jenkins, Churchill.

  162. M. Gilbert, “My Life with Churchill.” Sunday Express Magazine, January 2, 1994

  Chapter 8

  1. D. Notley, Winston Churchill Quotations.

  2. S. Lamb (ed.), Wit and Wisdom, p. 256.