by Max Hastings
242 ‘always been as distant’ Eden op. cit. p.539
243 ‘fighting to keep their country free’ Cripps BBC broadcast 6.2.42
243 ‘The talk was very much’ Kennedy MS op. cit. 5.3.42
244 ‘Although the British are’ Harriman op. cit. p.126
244 ‘he is always careful’ Moran op. cit. p.32
244 ‘saddened—appalled by events’ quoted Gilbert Road to Victory op. cit. p.69
244 ‘Poor old P.M.’ Cadogan op. cit. p.440 4.3.42
246 ‘a pregnant fact’ Roskill op. cit. p.232
247 ‘I believe that if’ Hansard 16.11.37
248 ‘I hope you were’ Kimball op. cit. vol. i p.504 1.6.42
248 ‘As I lay in bed’ Hodgson op. cit. p.407 15.8.43
248 ‘a considerable commander’ Anthony Montague Browne Long Sunset Cassell 1995 p.201
249 ‘perverse to heap praise’ New Statesman 28.2.42
249 ‘The disaster of this policy’ Hansard 24.2.42
249 ‘can be implemented only’ Kennedy MS op. cit. 31.5.42
250 ‘a stubborn and obstinate man’ Roskill op. cit. p.130
251 ‘I find it very difficult’ Kimball op. cit. vol. i p.438
252 ‘CIGS says WSC is’ Kennedy MS op. cit. 7.4.42
252 ‘hypothetical post-war problems’ Amery p.785 8.3.42
252 ‘He does not seem to see’ New Statesman 11.4.41
252 ‘It is difficult to find’ New Statesman 17.1.41
252 ‘This nation has become’ Kennedy MS op. cit. 23.2.42
253 ‘lack enthusiasm and interest’ BNA WO163/52 Quarterly Morale Report
253 ‘that America will emerge’ BNA FO371/30656
253 ‘When has the Prime Minister’ Economist 19.12.42
254 ‘the Britain we hope to build’ Picture Post 17.1.41
254 ‘unsatisfactory attitude of the workers’ Amery op. cit. 7.4.42
255 ‘a strange combination of’ ibid. pp.746 & 750 19.11.41 & 25.11.41
255 ‘the humiliation of being’ ibid. p.822 27.7.42
255 ‘lay down arms and accept’ D.G. Tendulkar Mahatma vol. v p.291
256 ‘Anything like a serious difference’ Kimball op. cit. vol. i p.449
256 ‘We must remember that’ Cadogan op. cit. p.450 7.5.42
257 ‘The depression following Singapore’ CAC Churchill Papers CHAR1/369/5-8 2.5.42
257 ‘Everyone feels safer now’ ibid. pp.107-8
258 ‘there are many people in the USA’ Nicolson op. cit. p.222 15.4.41
258 ‘One trouble is that’ BNA CAB122/96 7.4.42
258 ‘It must be accepted that’ Arthur Salter Slave of the Lamp Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1967 pp.185-6
Chapter 10: Soldiers, Bosses and ‘Slackers’
259 ‘I don’t know what’ Kennedy MS op. cit. 11.6.42
259 ‘Our soldiers are the most’ Cadogan op. cit. pp.374 & 389 29.4.41 & 18.6.41
259 ‘What will happen if’ ibid. p.433 9.2.42
261 ‘He presents to me’ WSC Great Contemporaries Leo Cooper 1990 p.144
261 ‘We manage by terrific efforts’ Kennedy MS op. cit. 31.7.42
262 ‘Rommel was an abler general’ Alan Moorehead African Trilogy Cassell 1998 p.418
262 ‘There is a general feeling’ Garfield op. cit. p.260
263 ‘The feeling is growing that’ ibid. p.212 10.2.42
263 ‘Maisky, the Russian ambassador’ Dalton op. cit. 18.11.41
263 ‘Our [career officers] regard [war]’ Pownall op. cit. vol. ii p.98
264 ‘Petrol, food, NAAFI supplies’ J.K. Stanford Tail of an Army Phoenix 1966 p.110 and passim
264 ‘The Augean stables’ Macmillan op. cit. p.322 8.12.43
265 ‘All this has a devastating’ Kennedy MS op. cit. 5.3.42
266 ‘We are going to lose’ Brooke op. cit. p.243 31.3.42
266 ‘too stupid to be employed’ Harold Macmillan War Diaries Macmillan 1984 p.313 2.12.43
266 ‘These British administrative generals’ ibid. p.347 1.1.44
267 ‘Following Byng’s shooting’ see N.A.M. Rodger The History of the Royal Navy vol. ii Penguin 2005
267 ‘Churchill muttered to Dill’ Kennedy MS op. cit. 5.12.41
267 ‘I am devoted to Neil’ Brooke op. cit. p.270 22.6.42
267 ‘Fundamental to many defeats’ David French Raising Churchill’s Army Oxford 2000 passim
268 ‘Arm yourself therefore’ quoted Gilbert Churchill op. cit. vol. iv p.63
269 ‘a mere handmaid’ BNA PREM3/499/9 WSC to Attlee 29.7.42
269 ‘the tendency to bridge over’ M.M. Postan British War Production HMSO 1952 p.325
270 ‘In all its branches’ Moorehead op. cit. p.409
270 ‘Father, the trouble is’ Eden op. cit. 6.10.42
270 ‘I love Randolph’ Montague Browne op. cit. p.148
271 ‘a very daring and skilful’ Hansard 29.1.42
271 ‘These beastly Huns’ Ian McLaine Ministry of Morale Allen & Unwin 1979 p. 139
272 ‘because they did not feel’ Amery op. cit. p.754 18.12.43
273 ‘by far the best’ Dalton op. cit. p.677
273 ‘he didn’t know why’ ibid. p.736
273 ‘He never really understood’ John Wheeler-Bennett John Anderson Viscount Waverley Macmillan 1962 p.224
274 ‘There is no better warhorse’ ibid. p.256
275 ‘He has had no political training’ Dalton op. cit. p.729
275 ‘I am in exceptionally good form’ ibid. 20.3.42
275 ‘the three profs’ Amery op. cit. p.707
276 ‘that the work people’ Headlam op. cit. p.231 5.12.40
277 ‘I was disgusted to hear’ Colville op. cit. 2.9.41
277 ‘Of eight serious strikes’ BNA AVIA10/269
277 ‘a marked absence of discipline’ BNA CAB102/406
277 ‘had failed to improve’ BNA CAB70/6
277 ‘Strikes continue to cause’ BNA INFI/282 October 1943
277 ‘Byrd complained to’ BNA FO371/34115
278 ‘I do not see why’ Kennedy MS op. cit. 12.3.42
278 ‘Of all wartime industrial disputes’ P. Inman Labour in the Munitions Industries HMSO and Longmans 1957
278 ‘The Cost of Living Index’ Inman op. cit. p.365 passim
279 ‘it became necessary to’ W.H.B. Court Coal Longman 1951 p.158
279 ‘The mining community’ quoted ibid. p.452
279 ‘One can hardly overstress’ Inman op. cit. p.325
279 ‘The center of the problem’ BNA CAB123/21
280 ‘many of the people’ Min of Health report Cmd.6468
280 ‘children in rags’ Richard Titmuss History of the Second World War: Problems of Social Policy HMSO 1950 p.115
280 ‘From the way men like’ Headlam op. cit. p.243 9.3.41
280 ‘Labour MPs, in turn’ Colville op. cit. p.401 19.6.41
281 ‘Except for our Fighting Services’ Hansard 29.7.41
282 ‘We [Chamberlain’s ministers in early 1940]’ quoted McLaine op. cit. p.104
Chapter 11: ‘Second Front Now!’
283 ‘I was fortunate’ Brooke op. cit. p.247 10.4.42
283 ‘no very great contribution’ ibid. p.246 9.4.42
284 ‘In many respects he is’ ibid. p.249 11.4.42
284 ‘The CIGS told his staff’ Kennedy MS op. cit. 5.4.42
284 ‘The extraordinary thing’ ibid.
284 ‘I am in entire agreement’ 12.4.42 Kimball op. cit. vol. i p.448
286 ‘we are proceeding’ Kimball ibid. p.459
286 ‘Arrangements are being made’ ibid. p.515
287 ‘This universal cry’ Brooke op. cit. p.243 30.3.42
288 ‘I might be the best’ Halifax diary op. cit. 31.3.42
288 ‘Concerning the second front’ O.A. Rzheshevsky Stalin and Churchill: Meetings, Conversations, Discussions Moscow 2004 pp.113 & 190
289 ‘We do not consider this’ ibid. p.157
290 ‘It is t
he irony’ Joan Beaumont Comrades in Arms Davis-Poynter 1980 p.99
290 ‘Considerable though these’ ibid. p.142
290 ‘sending very few aircraft’ ibid. p.147
291 ‘They offered no definite’ Rzheshevsky op. cit. p.231
291 ‘preparations for the second front’ ibid. p.222
291 ‘Finally, we think it’ ibid. p.250
291 ‘First, and as the Russian leader’ F. Chuev 140 Conversations with Molotov Moscow 1991 p.258
292 ‘Here Churchill interrupted’ ibid. p.319
292 ‘Roosevelt had calmly told’ Harvey op. cit. 10.6.42
292 ‘We had to squeeze’ Chuev op. cit. p.66
292 ‘the High Contracting Parties’ Pravda 14.6.42
293 ‘found Churchill “smarter” ’ Chuev op. cit. p.26
293 ‘I knew them all’ ibid. p.65
293 ‘As for Roosevelt’ ibid. p.67
294 ‘Two-thirds of weapons’ French op. cit. passim
295 ‘This vicious rag should’ BNA PREM4/26/8 7.6.42
295 ‘Advocacy of a second front’ Washington Despatches ed. H.G. Nicholas Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1981 25.7.42
295 ‘A US officer at dinner’ Kennedy MS op. cit. 5.4.42
295 ‘No Englishman here’ BNA CAB109/47 Birley to Jacob
296 ‘We simply hold no cards’ Dykes diary 12.10.42 quoted Danchev op. cit. p.20
296 ‘Private secretary John Martin’ Hassett op. cit. p.68
296 ‘No responsible British’ Churchill Archive JACB1/14
297 ‘It was Britain’s beleaguered’ Douglas Porch Hitler’s Mediterranean Gamble Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2004 p.208
297 ‘Anti-British feeling is still’ Washington Despatches op. cit. 14.5.42
297 ‘there was little point in supplying’ ibid. 26.6.42
297 ‘These English are too aggressive’ Hassett op. cit. 20 & 24.6.42
297 ‘a delightful companion’ ibid. 20.6.42
298 ‘I knew when I saw’ BNA FO371/30656
299 ‘All the old animosities’ USNA RG84 Box 5
299 ‘Phrases such as’ ibid. OWI Survey No. 113 10.6.42
299 ‘The OWI’s July survey’ USNA OWI Survey No. 114 1.7.42
299 ‘Some 65 per cent said’ USNA OWI No.117 29.8.42
300 ‘The dominant underlying feeling’ BNA FO371/30656
300 ‘The Asiatic war has revived’ Yale Lippmann Papers 18.4.42
300 ‘old-fashioned imperialism’ BNA FO371/30656 Clark Kerr Despatch 28.9.42
300 ‘The Embassy…has a quite fantastically’ BNA FO371/30656 6.7.42
301 ‘were about as friendly’ BNA FO371/30656 5.10.42
302 ‘We must have a victory!’ Harvey op. cit. 22.6.42
302 ‘I told him what Winston’ Kennedy MS op. cit. 18.7.42
302 ‘The people do not like’ IWM Cons Shelf P Yates letters 22.6.42
302 ‘I myself felt’ quoted Mosley op. cit. p.254
303 ‘The enemy did not seem’ Hodgson diary op. cit. p.293
303 ‘Mr Churchill’s speech did not’ ibid. 5.7.42
303 ‘We heard yesterday’ IWM G.W. King 85/49/1 22.6.42
303 ‘Russian successes continue’ BNA INF1/292 26.1.42-1.2.42
304 ‘We received nothing’ Brooke op. cit. p.223 27.1.42
304 ‘There is an extraordinary’ Kennedy MS op. cit. 23.3.42
304 ‘Little as I formerly liked him’ IWM Cons Shelf P 2.1.42
304 ‘That danger will never come’ McLaine op. cit. p.210
304 ‘Reactionary attitudes are spreading’ IWM Belsey 92/12/1 6.8.42
305 ‘When the Anglo-Soviet Alliance’ IWM Papers of Mrs E. Elkus
305 ‘English people are willing’ Pravda 5.8.42
306 ‘Every week of successful’ BNA INF1/284
306 ‘Ismay said that he admired’ Nicolson op. cit. 7.8.42
308 ‘The trouble…is that’ Macmillan op. cit. p.46 20.3.43
308 ‘I suppose that, with the exception’ Sir Alan Lascelles King’s Counsellor Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2006 p.41 24.7.42
309 ‘The fact that, during one of’ Los Angeles Times 28.6.42
309 ‘Winston is I think’ Amery op. cit. p.818 6.7.42
310 ‘His speech sounds very good to us’ Mrs Millburn’s Diaries Harrap 1979 1.7.42
310 ‘He is a giant among pygmies’ Headlam op. cit. p.322
310 ‘It is to be hoped that the PM’ Millburn op. cit. p.145 2.7.42
310 ‘The simple question’ The Times 1.7.42
311 ‘a most objectionable young pup’ Brooke op. cit. 3.7.42
311 ‘“discreditable” and “deplorable”’ Reynolds op. cit. p.303
311 ‘The cheek of the young brute’ Brooke op. cit. 3.7.42
311 ‘May I suggest with all respect’ BNA AIR8/1074 Dill JSM 300 Aide Memoire on Future Operations 16.7.42
312 ‘Churchill, however, believes’ Wallace diary 25.5.43 quoted J.M. Blum (ed.) The Price of Vision Houghton Mifflin 1977
312 ‘Well, how are we’ Kennedy MS op. cit. 18.7.42
313 ‘We failed to see’ Pogue op. cit. vol. iii p.330
Chapter 12: Camels and the Bear
315 ‘What energy and gallantry’ Harvey op. cit. 30.7.42
315 ‘He felt the need’ Eden op. cit. p.338
316 ‘looked exactly as though’ Ronald Winfield The Sky Belongs to Them William Kimber 1976 p.69
316 ‘Often had I seen’ WSC The Second World War op. cit. vol. iii p.412
316 ‘Old Miles’ Harvey op. cit. p.307 14.10.43
316 ‘There seem to me’ IWM 4/27/1 8.7.42 Papers of Lt.Gen. Sir Charles Gairdner
317 ‘far too many cases’ Charles Richardson op. cit. p.119
317 ‘In the Middle East there was’ Moorehead op. cit. p.412
318 ‘I intend to see every’ Speaking for Themselves op. cit. p.467 9.8.42
318 ‘The general received his dismissal’ Kennedy MS op. cit. 23.8.42
319 ‘All right. You can have’ Roskill Churchill and the Admirals op. cit. pp.236-7
321 ‘Our NKVD resident’ Studies on the History of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service Moscow 2007 op. cit. 4.8.42
322 ‘Churchill departed for the USSR’ ibid. 12.8.42
322 ‘We know from a reliable source’ ibid.
325 ‘I am downhearted and dispirited’ Moran op. cit. p.68 13.8.42
326 ‘You know, I was not’ Harriman op. cit. p.161
326 ‘May God prosper’ Moran op. cit. p.138
327 ‘Don’t be afraid’ Golovanov Memoirs Moscow 2007 p.345
328 ‘No one but the Prime Minister’ Richardson op. cit. p.144
328 ‘Churchill was decidedly’ Action this Day op. cit. pp. 215-16
329 ‘He appealed to sentiments’ Brooke op. cit. p.300 13.8.42
329 ‘Stalin told me the British Navy’ Harriman op. cit. p.161
330 ‘When Harriman reported’ ibid. p.169
331 ‘The deliveries were curtailed’ Trukhanovsky op. cit. pp.283-4
332 ‘savages’ Harriman op. cit. p.352
332 ‘He commissioned the ambassador’s wife’ CAC Churchill Papers CHAR1/379/12-20
Chapter 13: The Turn of Fortune
334 ‘have changed so frequently’ The Times 19.8.42
334 ‘While I grumble’ Garfield op. cit. p.280
334 ‘When looking back’ Brooke op. cit. p.314 24.8.42
335 ‘was the only one trying’ ibid. p.324 24.9.42
335 ‘super-chief of staff…Dill agreed’ Amery op. cit. p.830 25.8.42
336 ‘Churchill later described’ Moran op. cit. p.85
336 ‘It is an awful thing’ Amery op. cit. p.838 24.9.42
336 ‘ a “bent” man, and couldn’t’ Harvey op. cit. 9.10.42
336 ‘The dominance of Churchill’ Hume Wrong diary 4.11.42
336 ‘He sat down’ Kennedy MS op. cit. 17.10.42
337 ‘If we are beaten’ Moran op. cit. p.91
337 ‘the unnecessary
battle’ Porch op. cit. p.290
337 ‘Winston was like’ Lascelles op. cit. pp.66-7 23.10.42
339 ‘I am terribly anxious’ Amery op. cit. p.840 26.10.42
339 ‘How minute and fragile’ Norman Craig The Broken Plume IWM 1982 p.79
339 ‘There is more jam’ Nicolson op. cit. 2.11.42
339 ‘If Torch succeeds’ Brooke op. cit. p.338 4.11.42
340 ‘A sense of exaltation’ The Times 11.11.42
341 ‘The self-respect of the British Army’ Dalton op. cit. p.519
343 ‘Pity our 1st victorious general’ Bonham-Carter diary op. cit. 7.11.42
343 ‘It was nice Monty’ Kennedy MS op. cit. 1.8.43
343 ‘We are winning victories!’ Hodgson op. cit. p.331
344 ‘the only occasion on which’ Brooke op. cit. p.340 9.11.42
345 ‘Is it really to be supposed’ Harvey op. cit. 10.11.42
345 ‘I never meant the Anglo-American’ Gilbert Road to Victory op. cit. p.260
346 ‘The Russian army having played’ Harvey op. cit. 14.11.42
347 ‘La France ne marchera pas’ Colville op. cit. p.311 13.12.40
347 ‘Although the French’ Kennedy MS op. cit. 18.11.42
348 ‘ “In war,” he said’ Gilbert Road to Victory op. cit. p.277
348 ‘I have always deemed it’ Harriman op. cit. p.173
349 ‘It shows how wrong’ Harvey op. cit. 26.12.42
349 ‘The historian David Reynolds’ Reynolds op. cit. p.330
349 ‘One comes away’ Macmillan op. cit. p.101 1.6.43
350 ‘I do not want any of your’ Brooke op. cit. p.376 31.1.43
351 ‘not much good’ ibid. p.364 20.1.43
351 ‘Conversations with the British’ Eisenhower War Papers Johns Hopkins 1970 vol. i p.98
351 ‘Getting on with Americans’ Dalton op. cit. p.722
354 ‘still something of an enigma’ Pogue op. cit. vol. iii p.5
355 ‘a general atmosphere’ Macmillan op. cit. p.8 26.1.43
355 ‘At present they are’ Speaking for Themselves op. cit. p.473 15.1.43
355 ‘I think CIGS’s extremely’ CAC Jacob diary op. cit. JACB1/19
356 ‘throwing down his facts’ Moran op. cit. 1.1.42
356 ‘Then you will have to’ Pogue op. cit. vol. iii p.7
356 ‘with consummate skill’ Macmillan op. cit. p.9 26.1.43
356 ‘The PM stood in the hall’ Moran op. cit. 22.1.43