by Max Hastings
630 “What energy and gallantry of the old gentleman”: Harvey, p. 253, July 30, 1942.
631 “He felt the need for company, especially in Moscow”: Eden, p. 338.
632 “looked exactly as though he was in a Christmas party disguise”: Winfield, p. 69.
633 “Often had I seen the day break on the Nile”: Churchill, Second World War, 3:412.
634 “Old Miles [Lampson, British ambassador to Egypt]”: Harvey, p. 307, October 14, 1943.
635 “There seem to me to be too many people”: IWM, 4/27/1, Papers of Lt. Gen. Sir Charles Gairdner, July 8, 1942.
636 “far too many cases of units surrendering”: Richardson, p. 119.
637 “In the Middle East there was, in August”: Moorehead, p. 412.
638 “I intend to see every important unit”: Soames, ed., Speaking, p. 467, August 9, 1942.
639 The general received his dismissal ungraciously: Kennedy diary, LHA, August 23, 1942.
640 “Our NKVD resident in London”: Ocherki Istorii Rossiikoi Vneshney Razvedki, August 4, 1942.
641 “Churchill departed for the USSR”: Ibid., August 12, 1942.
642 “We know from a reliable source”: Ibid.
643 “I am downhearted and dispirited”: Moran, p. 68, August 13, 1942.
644 “You know, I was not friendly to you”: Harriman and Abel, p. 161.
645 “May God prosper this undertaking”: Moran, p. 138.
646 “Don’t be afraid”: Golovanov, p. 345.
647 “No one but the Prime Minister”: Richardson, p. 144.
648 “Churchill was decidedly upset”: Wheeler-Bennett, Action, pp. 215–16.
649 “He appealed to sentiments in Stalin”: Brooke, p. 300, August 13, 1942.
650 “Stalin told me the British Navy”: Harriman and Abel, p. 161.
651 When Harriman reported back to Roosevelt: Ibid., p. 169.
652 “The deliveries were curtailed”: Trukhanovsky, pp. 283–84.
653 “savages”: Harriman and Abel, p. 352.
654 He commissioned the ambassador’s wife: CAC, Churchill Papers, CHAR1/379/12-20.
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655 “have changed so frequently that the subject”: Times (London), August 19, 1942.
656 “While I grumble young Russia waits”: Garfield, p. 280.
657 “When looking back at those days”: Brooke, p. 314, August 24, 1942.
658 “was the only one trying to win the war”: Ibid., p. 324, September 24, 1942.
659 “super–chief of staff … Dill agreed”: Amery, p. 830, August 25, 1942.
660 Churchill later described September and October: Moran, p. 85.
661 “It is an awful thing dealing with a man”: Amery, p. 838, September 24, 1942.
662 “a ‘bent’ man, and couldn’t be expected”: Harvey, p. 264, October 9, 1942.
663 “The dominance of Churchill emerges”: Hume Wrong diary, November 11, 1942.
664 “If we are beaten in this battle, it’s the end of Winston”: Moran, p. 91.
665 “the unnecessary battle”: Porch, p. 290.
666 “Winston was like a cat on hot bricks”: Lascelles, pp. 66–67, October 23, 1942.
667 “I am terribly anxious lest even with our superior weight”: Amery, p. 840, October 26, 1942.
668 “How minute and fragile”: Craig, p. 79.
669 “There is more jam to come”: Nicolson, p. 260, November 6, 1942.
670 “If Torch succeeds we are beginning to stop losing this war”: Brooke, p. 338, November 4, 1942.
671 “A sense of exaltation pervaded Mr. Churchill’s speech”: Times (London), November 11, 1942.
672 “The self-respect of the British Army”: Dalton, p. 519.
673 “it was nice Monty had at last mentioned”: Kennedy diary, LHA, August 1, 1942.
674 “We are winning victories!”: Hodgson, p. 331.
675 “the only occasion on which he expressed publicly”: Brooke, p. 340, November 9, 1942.
676 “Is it really to be supposed that the Russians”: Harvey, p. 268, November 10, 1942.
677 “I never meant the Anglo-American Army”: Gilbert, Road to Victory, p. 260.
678 “The Russian army having played the allotted role”: Harvey, p. 270, November 14, 1942.
679 “La France ne marchera pas”: Colville, p. 311, December 13, 1940.
680 “Although the French hate the Germans”: Kennedy diary, LHA, November 18, 1942.
681 “In war,” he said, “it is not always possible”: Gilbert, Road to Victory, p. 277.
682 “I have always deemed it tragic that the British”: Harriman and Abel, p. 173.
683 “It shows how wrong you get if once you compromise with evil”: Harvey, p. 279, December 26, 1942.
684 The historian David Reynolds believes that the British: Reynolds, In Command, p. 330.
685 “One comes away, as always after conversations with De Gaulle”: Macmillan, p. 101, June 1, 1943.
686 “I do not want any of your own long-term projects”: Brooke, p. 376, January 31, 1943.
687 “not much good”: Ibid., p. 364, January 20, 1943.
688 “Conversations with the British grow wearisome”: Eisenhower, 1:98.
689 “getting on with Americans is frightfully easy”: Dalton, p. 722.
670 “still something of an enigma”: Pogue, Marshall: Organizer of Victory, p. 5.
691 “a general atmosphere of extraordinary goodwill”: Macmillan, p. 8, January 26, 1943.
692 “At present they are working on what is called ‘off the record’”: Soames, ed., Speaking, p. 473, January 15, 1943.
693 “I think CIGS’s extremely definite views”: CAC, Jacob diary, JACB1/19.
694 “Then you will have to educate them”: Pogue, Marshall: Organizer of Victory, p. 7.
695 “with consummate skill”: Macmillan, p. 9, January 26, 1943.
696 “The PM stood in the hall watching the Frenchman”: Moran, pp. 97–98, January 22, 1943.
697 “Being naturally extremely gullible”: CAC, Jacob diary, JACB1/19.
698 “We feel that the Americans have great drive”: Kennedy diary, LHA, January 14, 1943.
699 “Many American officers found their British opposite numbers”: Ambrose, p. 146.
700 “a pointer pup … If someone with a red mustache”: Orlando Ward Papers, USAMHI Carlisle, diary, January 1943.
701 “they viewed the Mediterranean as a kind of dark hole”: CAC, Jacob diary, JACB1/19.
702 “You know what a mess they would make of it!”: Brooke, p. 362.
703 “My object is to serve my country”: Roosevelt Papers, Hyde Park, PPF 8832.
704 “The better I get to know that man”: LHA, Alanbrooke Papers, 14/39/B, February 9, 1944.
705 “Mr. Churchill … takes his place at the President’s side”: Times (London), January 27, 1943.
706 “He was offended that Roosevelt”: Harriman and Abel, p. 188.
707 “we had made a public statement”: BNA, CAB65/24, November 27, 1941.
708 “He always enjoyed other people’s discomfort”: Harriman and Abel, p. 191.
709 “Whatever we decided to undertake in 1943”: CAC, Jacob diary, JACB1/19.
710 “Hundreds of thousands of Soviet people”: Zhukov, 2:314.
711 “A tumbler was brought”: Brooke, p. 370, January 26, 1943.
712 “I told him that the security arrangements were very poor”: Ibid., p. 374, January 30, 1943.
713 “if they marched with us, we would not concern ourselves with past differences”: Churchill, The Second World War, 4:647–48.
714 “It would be a pity to have to go out in the middle”: CAC, Jacob diary, JACB1/19.
715 “they are now warrior nations, walking in the fear”: Hansard, February 11, 1943.
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716 “In absolute terms the British reduced their casualties”: French, p. 284.
717 “Americans require expe
rience”: Quoted in Gilbert, Road to Victory, p. 360.
718 “Good news today, sir!”: Bonham Carter, p. 260, March 10, 1943.
719 How Green Is My Ally: Dalton, p. 557.
720 “The enemy make a great mistake”: Reynolds, In Command.
721 Some 50 percent answered: Gallup poll, June 1, 1943.
722 “They all look exactly alike to me”: Macmillan, p. 256, October 14, 1943.
723 “I am told that our efforts”: Headlam, p. 410, June 26, 1944.
724 “It is rather strange”: Brooke, p. 464, October 28, 1943.
725 “He says he would not rule this out”: Dalton, p. 551, February 8, 1943.
726 “The less said about that the better”: Nicolson, p. 291, April 20, 1943.
727 “Sawyers brings the breakfast”: CAC, Jacob diary, JACB1/19.
728 “There is nothing in the world he hates”: Quoted in Gilbert, Road to Victory, p. 356, letter of March 17, 1943.
729 “He is so funny in the car”: Layton letter, April 7, 1943, quoted in Gilbert, Road to Victory, p. 375.
730 “We had good news”: Ibid., pp. 374–75.
731 “sharing his secret thoughts with no one”: Moran, p. 198, August 4, 1944.
732 “he is always so reassuring”: Ibid., p. 209, August 20, 1944.
733 “I had never seen him dictate before”: Kennedy diary, LHA, April 6, 1943.
734 “Oh, I shall like that one”: Quoted in Birkenhead, p. 537.
735 “Have you noticed that the President is a tired man?”: Moran, p. 116, May 25, 1943.
736 “unless almost the entire bulk of the German Army”: BNA, CAB120/83.
737 “It was quite evident that Marshall was quite incapable”: Brooke, p. 406, May 18, 1943.
738 “the most exhausting entertainments imaginable”: Ibid., pp. 409–11, May 24 and 25, 1943.
739 “I had always wondered why aircraft”: Churchill, Second World War, 4:727.
740 “very human & lovable side”: Kennedy diary, LHA, December 8, 1943.
741 “I was speaking,” he told guests at dinner that night, “from where the cries of Christian virgins rent the air”: Brooke, p. 416, June 1, 1943.
742 “Experience has taught me that it is not worthwhile arguing”: BNA, CAB120/ 683, July 25, 1943.
743 “I am the last to plead Stalin’s case”: CAC, CHUR4/301/187, fs272-4, p. 276.
744 “In my view there is an undercurrent of uncertainty”: Library of Congress MS Div., H. R. Luce Papers, Box 1, folder 7.
745 “When Mr. Churchill received the freedom of London”: IWM, 85/49/1, King Papers.
746 “To some of the Government it is incredible”: Harvey, p. 304, February 10, 1943.
747 “All these instructions”: Macmillan, p. 167, July 29, 1943.
748 “On this, I’m thankful to say”: Harvey, p. 342, July 24, 1943.
749 “Agreement after agreement may be secured on paper”: Brooke, p. 398, May 4, 1943.
750 “I firmly believe”: USAMHI, Carlisle, OCMH, Forrest Pogue notes of 1947 interview with Morgan for The Supreme Command
751 “The guests take hardly any notice of him”: Moran, p. 130, August 18, 1943.
752 “stir the imagination and win the support”: Pogue, Marshall: Organizer of Victory, p. 241.
753 “As usual, he was full of guile”: Ibid., p. 244.
754 Yet there is no period of the war at which American dismay: Harvey, p. 357, October 24, 1943.
755 “The full implications of this have not yet been assessed”: BNA, WO205/33.
756 “If we once set foot on the Italian mainland”: Kennedy diary, LHA, August 13, 1943.
757 “The Quebec conference has left me absolutely cooked”: Brooke, p. 450, August 30, 1943.
758 He subsequently acknowledged that: Ibid., p. 466, November 1, 1943.
759 “It was like fighting tanks”: Quoted in Atkinson, Day of Battle, p. 207.
760 “He did not believe Germany would try to control”: BNA, CAB120/83.
761 “Must be a relief to the Boss for Churchill is a trying guest”: Hassett, pp. 169, 315.
762 “loves W as a man for the war”: Harvey, p. 238 (March 11, 1943) and p. 239 (March 29, 1943).
763 The chief of staff of the army indulged a brief fantasy: See Pogue, Marshall: Organizer of Victory, p. 318.
764 “mercurial inconstancy”: Ibid., p. 320.
765 “But we cannot dictate and I doubt if we could have done more”: Kennedy diary, LHA, September 3, 1943.
766 “In the end I suppose that we shall probably go into France”: Ibid., September 26, 1943.
767 Beaverbrook had tabled a new motion: Hansard, September 23, 1943. 319
768 “I need him, I need him”: Taylor, p. 500.
769 “He says we must not make things too hard for the PM”: Dalton, p. 660, October 29, 1943.
770 “He says a Second Front is in existence”: IWM, G. W. King, 85/49/1, August 22, 1943.
771 “will save a piece of rope later on”: IWM, 92/12/1, Belsey letters, September 12 and 23, 1943.
772 “No loss … I never did like having that Sikorski person on our side, did you?”: Ibid., letters of May 1 and September 23, 1943.
773 “It would be wrong to belittle the importance of allied military”: Pravda, August 6, 1943.
774 “Even such help was serviceable to us”: Chuev, p. 39.
775 “I think I may claim to know the mind of our workers”: BNA, INF1/220.
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776 “his jumbonic majesty”: Macmillan, p. 425, April 19, 1944.
777 “Good. This is a time to play high”: Churchill, Second World War, 5:182.
778 He believed, probably rightly, that their functions: Brooke, p. 185, September 25, 1941.
779 “was clearly affected by the delay”: Wilson dispatches, 1946, quoted in Holland, p. 33.
780 “It is pretty clear in my mind”: Brooke, p. 458, October 6, 1943.
781 “He is excited about Kos”: Cadogan, p. 565, October 7, 1943.
782 “I have never wished to send an army into the Balkans”: Kimball, 2:498.
783 “worth at least up to a first-class division”: BNA, FO954/32.
784 “I am slowly becoming convinced that in his old age”: Brooke, p. 459, October 8, 1943.
785 “I propose … to tell Gen. Wilson that he is free”: BNA, FO954/32.
786 “It does seem amazing that the PM”: Kennedy diary, LHA, October 13, 1943.
787 “We are being pressed”: Tedder, With Prejudice, p. 484.
788 “the price we were paying [for Leros was] too great”: Ibid., October 28, 1943.
789 “a very nasty problem, Middle East [Command]”: Brooke, p. 464, October 28, 1943.
790 “The enemy had boldly discounted”: Roskill, War at Sea, vol. 3, pt. 1, p. 202.
791 “Lack of RAF support absolutely pitiful”: IWM, LRDG 2/3.
792 “As the battle progressed, it was evident that the enemy”: Holland, p. 135.
793 “We were amazed to see groups of British soldiers”: Rogers, p. 203.
794 “The Germans moved quickly from one position to another”: Holland, p. 148.
795 At midnight on November 14: Bennett, p. 398, appendix 13.
796 “I much regret not to see you tonight”: Quoted in Tedder, p. 485.
797 “One would have thought that some of the bitter lessons”: Ibid., p. 486.
798 “I am still strongly of the opinion that Leros”: Cunningham, p. 582.
799 “Bad news of Leros”: Cadogan, p. 576, November 16, 1943.
800 “The fall of Leros should be a reminder”: Times (London), November 24, 1943.
801 “CIGS feels that the war may have been lengthened”: Kennedy diary, LHA, November 7, 1943.
802 Likewise, the British official historian seems mistaken: Molony, 5:541.
803 “Am still grieving over Leros etc”: Soames, ed., Speaking, p. 485, November 21, 1943.
804 “the most acute
difference I ever had with General Eisenhower”: Churchill, Second World War, 5:199.
805 “and if they were disregarded it was because other reasons”: Ibid., 5:198–99.
806 “All the British were against me”: Pogue, Marshall: Organizer of Victory, p. 307.
807 “I cannot pretend to have an adequate defence of what occurred”: Soames, ed., Speaking, p. 487, November 26, 1943.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: TEHRAN
808 “His ear is so sensitively tuned”: Foot, p. 326.
809 “Mr. Churchill did not like to give his time to anything”: Eden, p. 441.
810 “The red and gold dressing gown”: Brooke, p. 223, January 27, 1942.
811 “and that it was really too much to go into detailed questions at the moment”: Dalton, p. 676, November 30, 1943.
812 “remind the Turkey that Christmas was coming”: Brooke, p. 467, November 3, 1943.
813 “Why break off the handle of the jug”: Ibid., p. 468, November 8, 1943.
814 “Trying to maintain good relations”: Ibid., p. 516, January 24, 1944.
815 Adam Tooze’s important research: Tooze, p. 625 and passim.
816 “In an expansive moment Winston told us”: Dalton, p. 947, October 18, 1943.
817 “We were greeted by her owner”: Macmillan, p. 293, November 15, 1943.
818 “From the street below came a great hubbub of voices”: Moran, pp. 156–57, November 18, 1943.
819 “We have now crystallised our ideas”: Kennedy diary, LHA, November 7, 1943.
820 “The PM’s stock is not high”: Pownall, 2:119.
821 “The pattern of battle”: Fred Majdalany, Cassino: Portrait of a Battle (Cassell, 1999), p. 33.
822 “Winston is getting”: Macmillan, p. 304, November 25, 1943.
823 This caused Eden to observe: Sherwood, White House Papers, 2:717.
824 “We are inclined to forget the President’s difficulties”: John Kennedy, Business of War, p. 317, at lunch on November 19, 1943.
825 “W. had to play the role of courtier”: Eden, pp. 424, 426.
826 “PM and President ought”: Cadogan, p. 579, November 28, 1943.
827 “bloody Italian war”: Moran, p. 159.
828 “We are preparing for a battle at Tehran”: Ibid., p. 160.
829 “They are far more sceptical of him than they are of Stalin”: Ibid.