NB: Full details of all publications referred to in these notes can be found in the bibliography, following
1. Churchill to the House of Commons, 3 November 1953, Hansard HC Deb 5s., vol. 520, col. 29
2. D’Este, Carlo, Warlord, p. 386
3. CHAR 2/240B/70, and CHAR 2/240B/152
4. Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, Volume V, p. 617
5. Gilbert (ed.), The Churchill War Papers, The Ever-Widening War, Volume 3, p. 320
6. Bradford, Sarah, George VI, p. 450
7. Soames, Mary Clementine Churchill, p. 445
8. Gilbert, Churchill, Finest Hour, 1939-1941, Volume VI, p. 160
9. Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, 1917-1922, Volume IV, p 35
10. Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, Road to Victory, 1941-1945, Volume VII, p. 664
11. Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, Volume VII, p. 802
12. Pawle, The War and Colonel Warden, p. 69
13. Pawle, p. 190
14. CHUR 1/285
15. Kass, The Hungry Soul, Eating and the Perfecting of our Nature, p. 182
SECTION 1
1. Wilson, “World of Books,” commenting on Roy Jenkins’ life of Churchill, Daily Telegraph, 7 June, 2004
2. Sir Christopher Meyer to the author
3. Soames, Mary Clementine Churchill, p. 260
4. “In Honour Bound: My Father, Lord Mountbatten”, talk by The Countess Mountbatten of Burma, in Proceedings of the International Churchill Societies, p. 5
5. Bonham Carter, Winston Churchill as I Knew Him, p. 16
6. Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain, 1937-1946, p. 80
7. Coote, The Other Club. Endpapers
8. www.bbm.org.uk/Savoyhotel.htm
9. Macmillan, The Past Masters 1906-1939, p. 150
10. Gilbert (ed.), War Papers, Volume 3, p. 421
11. Martin, Lady Randolph Churchill, The Dramatic Years, 1895-1921, p. 295
12. Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, Prophet of Truth, Volume V, 1922-1939, p. 265
13. Manchester, William, The Last Lion, Volume 2, p. 27
14. Roberts, Andrew, Masters and Commanders, p. 80
15. The Washington Post, 27 December, 1941
16. Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, The Stricken World, 1917-1922, Volume IV, p. 138
17. Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, Volume IV, pp. 138-9
18. Kramnick, Isaac and Sherman, Barry, Harold Laski: A Life on the Left, p. 1
19. DeWolfe, Mark (ed.), Holmes-Laski Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Harold Laski, 1916-1953, p. 1136
20. Henderson, Nicholas The Private Office Revisited, p. 83
21. Davies, Joseph E., Mission to Moscow, p. 150
22. Letter from the 4th Lord Dufferin and Ava. Lord Dufferin added, “I shall ever remember the evening throughout my life”. CHAR 1/232/11
23. CHAR 1/232/ 7
24. CHAR 1/242/21
25. Nasaw, David, The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst, p. 418
26. CHAR 1/254/39
27. Wyatt, To The Point, p. 32
28. CHAR 1/244/81
29. Gilbert, email to the author, 19 April 2011
30. Buchan-Hepburn, Patrick, to Sir Martin Gilbert, In Search of Churchill: A Historian’s Journey, p. 304
31. James Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, quoted in Gilbert, In Search of Churchill, A Historian’s Journey, p. 231
32. Montague Browne, Anthony, The Long Sunset, p. 116
33. Montague Browne, p. 118
34. In conversation with the author
35. Soames (ed.), Speaking for Themselves, p. 344
36. Edward Rothstein, “Contemplating Churchill,” Smithsonian, March 2005, p. 91
37. Soames (ed.), p. 259
38. CHAR 1/386/16
39. CHAR 1/386/17
40. CHAR 7/15/103
42. Martin, Ralph G., Lady Randolph Churchill, Volume I, p. 149, from George W. Smalley, Anglo-American Memories, 1911
43. Churchill, My Early Life, p. 150
44. Cooke, Alistair, General Eisenhower and the Military Churchill, p. 52
45. CHAR 1/315/121 and CHAR 1/268/98
46. CHAR 1/254/40 and CHAR 1/282/66
47. CHAR 1/315/125
48. CHAR 1/315/122
49. CHAR 1/315/123
50. Cooper, Trumpets from the Steep, p. 180
51. Norwich, John Julius (ed.), The Duff Cooper Diaries, 11 January 1944
52. Letter from Jo Sturdee, later Countess of Onslow, to her family from Hotel de la Mamounia, Marrakesh, Morocco, 7 January 1948. CHUR/ON SL 2
53. Graebner, My Dear Mr. Churchill, p. 78
54. Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, Road to Victory, 1941-1945, Volume VII, p. 979
55. Moran, Winston S. Churchill, The Struggle for Survival, p. 213
56. Pawle, p. 344
57. Colville, The Fringes of Power, p. 639
58. Reported by Elizabeth Olson, “Churchill’s Lifelong Romance With a Feisty Former Colony,” The New York Times, 7 February 2004
59. Cohen, Supreme Command, p. 118
1. FDR to WSC on the occasion of FDR’s 60th birthday, in response to the Prime Minister’s birthday wishes, Moran, p. 25
2. Larson, Philip P., “Encounters with Chicago”, Finest Hour 118, p. 30.
3. McJimsey, The Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, p. 138
4. Churchill, The Second World War, The Grand Alliance, Volume III, p. 427
5. Colville, p. 415
6. Colville, p. 368
7. Colville, p. 369
8. Dilks, David (ed.), Cadogan, p. 395
9. Morton, H., Atlantic Meeting, p. 74
10. Dilks (ed.), p. 396
11. Joan Bright in conversation with the author
12. Lash, Roosevelt and Churchill, 1939-1941, p. 391
13. Gilbert (ed.), The Churchill War Papers, Volume 3, p. 1036
14. Lash, Roosevelt and Churchill, p. 391
15. Wilson, Theodore, The First Summit, p. 92
16. Morton, p. 104
17. Wilson, p. 104
18. Although the press was barred, Morton and Howard Spring, a novelist, were invited to go along to describe what they saw. They were not told where they were going and were sworn to secrecy by Brendan Bracken. Morton asked an important question: “Should I pack a dinner jacket?” Bracken said, “yes”.
19. Morton, p. 105
20. Montague Browne, The Long Sunset, p. 230
21. Langworth, Richard, “On Turtles and Turtle Soup”, Finest Hour 146, p. 25
22. CHUR 2/96B/224
23. Morton, p. 95
24. Wilson, p. 106
25. Richardson, From Churchill’s Secret Circle to the BBC: The Biography of Lt. Gen. Sir Ian Jacob, p. 67
26. Martin, Downing Street: The War Years, p. 59
27. Ibid., photo insert following p. 56
28. Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 889
29. Gilbert, Volume VI, p. 1168
1. Kimball (ed.), Churchill & Roosevelt, The Complete Correspondence, Volume I, p. 286
2. Smith, Jean Edward, FDR, p. 542
3. Meiklejohn, Diaries, Reel 52. Harriman had also brought over the gift of an electric shaver which the Prime Minister wanted to use constantly. Voltages were of course a problem.
4. Churchill, Volume III, p. 538
5. Harvey (ed.), p. 70
6. Kimball (ed.), p. 286
7. Ive, p. 72
8. Richardson, pp. 84-85. Jacob joined Churchill on the Duke of York.
9. Soames (ed.), Speaking For Themselves, p. 461
10. Pawle, The War and Colonel Warden, p.145
11. Martin, John, Downing Street; The War Years, p. 69
12. Gilbert, Churchill, Road to Victory, 1941-1945, Volume VII, p. 18
13. Pawle, London 1963, p. 146
14. Gilbert, Churchill, Volume VII, p. 18
15. Gilbert, Churchill, Volume VII, p. 9
16. Richardson, Diary, p. 88
17. Leasor (ed.), War at the Top, The Experiences of Sir Leslie Hollis, p. 29
18. Goodwin, No Ordinary Time, p. 301
19. Time magazine, 5 January, 1942
20. Roberts, Masters and Commanders, p. 84
21. Fields, My 21 Years in the White House, p. 81
22. Goodwin, p. 302
23. Stiegler, Sam, interviews. From Medford Afro-American Remembrance Project, p. 7
24. Fields, p. 51
25. François Rysavy as told to Frances Spatz Leighton, A Treasury of White House Cooking, p. 79
26. Lady Williams, In conversation with the author, April 2010
27. Macmillan, Tides of Fortune, p. 322
28. Graebner, My Dear Mr. Churchill, p. 53
29. Harriman papers, Box 446, Folder 2
30. Nesbitt, Henrietta, White House Diary, p. 30
31. Nesbitt, p. 273
32. Jenkins, Churchill: A Biography, p. 672
33. Bohlen, Witness to History, 1929-1969, p. 143
34. Burns, Roosevelt, The Soldier of Freedom, 1940-1945, p. 178
35. Nesbitt papers, Library of Congress
36. Whitcomb, John and Claire, Real Life at the White House, p. 306
37. McGowan, Norman, My Years With Churchill, 1958, p. 70
38. Roberts p. 68
39. Roberts, p. 69
40. Jenkins, p. 672
41. New York Times, 11 January 1942
42. Bercuson and Herwig, One Christmas in Washington, p. 154
43. Goodwin, p. 302
44. Gilbert, Volume VII, p. 27
45. Ibid.
46. Gilbert, Volume VII, p. 28
47. Richardson, p. 91
48. Bercuson and Herwig, p. 164
49. Moran, p. 12
50. Roberts, Masters, p. 84
51. Pawle, p 155
52. Roberts p. 77
1. Moran, p. 60
2. Telegram from Churchill to the Cabinet, copied to Roosevelt, August 15, 1942. CHAR 20/79A/36-38
3. Blake and Louis, Churchill, p. 314
4. JACB 1/16 p. 56
5. Pawle, p. 193
6. Mander, Danny, Winston Churchill’s Bodyguard, The Teheran conference 1943, p. 19
7. Mander, Danny, p. 16
8. Churchill, The Second World War, The Hinge of Fate, Volume IV, p. 477
9. Colville, p. 404
10. Churchill, Volume IV, p. 409
11. Gilbert, Volume VII, p. 1
12. JACB 1/16 p. 84
13. Churchill, Volume IV, p. 425
14. Churchill, Volume IV, p. 429
15. Moran, p. 55
16. Moran, p. 56
17. Leon Aron, Russian Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, consulted Sir Rodric Braithwaite, the last UK ambassador to the USSR and the first ambassador to post-Soviet Russia, who confirmed a report from Director of the Federal Archival Service, Professor Vladimir Kozlov and Molotov’s grandson, Vyacheslav Nikonov, that the Ninth Directorate “periodically destroys everything in their archives after a decade or so.” Memo to the author from Leon Aron, 6 September 2005.
18. Thompson, W.H., I Was Churchill’s Shadow, p. 98
19. Moran, p. 59
20. Churchill, Volume IV p. 442
21. Gilbert, Volume VII, p. 200
22. Moran, p. 63
23. Gilbert, Volume VII, p. 205
24. CHAR 20/79A/36.
25. Moran, p. 64
26. Gilbert, Volume VII, p. 191
27. Gilbert, Volume VII, p. 181
28. Harriman and Abel, Special Envoy, p. 152
29. Sandys, Celia, “Around the World with Winston”, Daily Mail, 6 September 2008
1 FO 195/2478 Press Conference, given by British ambassador Sir H. Knatchbull Hugessen on 2 February 1943
2. Churchill, The Second World War, Volume IV, p. 625
3. Gilbert, Churchill, Road to Victory, 1941-1945, Volume VII, p. 301
4. Chandler, Graham, “Travels with Churchill”, Air & Space Magazine, July 2009
5. Gilbert, Churchill: A Photographic Portrait, picture caption, p. 289
6. FO 195/2478 Press Conference
7. Moran, p. 84
8. Ibid.
9. http//www.turim.net/turkey
10. Behrend, George, Luxury Trains, p. 119.
11. Danchev and Todman (eds.), Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, p. 374
12. Gilbert, Volume VII, p. 325
1. Moran, p. 148
2. Ibid.
3. Gilbert, p. 555
4. Gilbert, Volume VII, p. 564
5. Harriman Papers, Notes on the Teheran Conference, 27 November - 5 December 1943, Box 110, Folder 10
6. Gilbert, Volume VII, p. 569
7. Churchill, Sarah, A Thread in the Tapestry, p. 65
8. Dilks (ed.), Cadogan, p. 578
9. Lavery, Brian, Churchill Goes to War, p. 245
10. Eubank, Keith, Summit at Teheran, p. 177
11. Bullard, Sir Reader, The Camels Must Go, p. 256
12. Mayle, Eureka Summit, p. 51
13. Ismay, General Lord, Memoirs, p. 337
14. Birse, Memoirs of an Interpreter, p. 153
15. Harriman and Abel, p. 263
16. Eisenhower, John, Allies, p. 410
17. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, p. 776
18. Churchill, Sarah, p. 65
19. Cunningham, A Sailor’s Odyssey, p. 588
20. Eubank, p. 342
21. Harriman Papers, Notes on the Teheran Conference, Box 110, Folder 10
22. Mayle, p. 114
23. Ibid.
24. Rees, Laurence, WWII Behind Closed Doors, p. 233
25. Bohlen, UK Edition, p. 149
26. Churchill, Sarah, p. 66
27. Thompson, John, Chicago Tribune, 7 December 1943
28. Danchev and Todman (eds.), p. 488
29. Ismay, p. 341
30. Cunningham, p. 588
31. Pawle, p. 271
32. Gilbert, Volume VII, p. 593
33. Bullard, p. 259
34. Letter from Harriman, State Dept., S8330
1. Dilks (ed.), p. 707
2. Gilbert, Volume VII, p. 1182
3. Stettinius, Roosevelt and the Russians: The Yalta Conference, p. 3
4. Sherwood, p. 845.
5. Gilbert, Volume VII, p. 1167
6. Ibid.
7. An astute political observer noted at the time “We’ve just elected a dead man”.
8. Leasor, James, War At The Top, based on the experiences of General Sir Leslie Hollis, p. 280
9. Ibid.
10. Leasor, p. 281
11. Harriman, p. 390
12. Gilbert, Volume VII, p. 1172
13. Gilbert, Volume VII, p. 1187
15. Gilbert, Volume VII, p. 1195
16. Stettinius, p. 3
17. CHAR 20/210/90
18. MART 2 from unpublished John Martin Diary, p. 175
19. Martin, p. 180
20. Ismay, p. 387
21. Gilbert, Volume VII, p. 1172
22. Martin, p. 179
23. Bright, The Inner Circle, A View of War at the Top, p. 182
24. Dilks (ed.), Cadogan, p. 703
25. Layton, Elizabeth (later Nel), Mr. Churchill’s Secretary, p. 176
26. Dilks (ed.), Cadogan, p. 703
27. Gilbert, Volume VII, p. 1182
28. Dilks (ed.), p 703
29. CHUR 1/285
30. Ibid.
31. Clemens, Yalta, p. 114
32. Stettinius, p. 82
33. Ibid.
34. US Dept of State, Foreign Relations of the US. Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945. Washington 1955. Galley 491
35. Nesbitt, p 305
36. www.ukraineplaces.com
37. Stettinius, p. 114
38. Stettinius, p. 218
39. Dilks (ed.), Cadogan, p. 707
40. ed., Danchev and Todman, Alanbrooke, p. 659
41. Stettinius, p. 83
42. Ibid. p. 218
43. Dilks (ed.), Cadogan, p. 707
44. Stettinius, p. 219
45. Ibid. p. 220.
46. Gilbert, Volume VII, p. 1195
47. Ibid.
48. Gilbert, Volume VII, p. 1190
49. Stettinius, p. 272
50. The menu is reproduced in the American edition of Bohlen’s memoir, Witness to History, but not in the British edition.
51. Stettinius, p. 111
52. U S Department of State, Foreign Relations of the US (FRUS), Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945. Galley 496
53. JACB 1/20, p. 53
54. Moran, p. 230
55. Dilks (ed.), Cadogan, p. 709
56. Lunghi, Hugh, A Tribute to Sir Winston Churchill, Blenheim Palace, transcript of talk, 1 March 1997, p. 8
57. Dilks (ed.), Cadogan, p. 710
1. Churchill, The Second World War, Triumph and Tragedy, Volume VI, p. 578
2. Beschloss, The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1941-1945, p. 239
3. Truman, Harry, Memoirs: Year of Decisions, Volume 1, p. 337
4. Truman, p. 381
5. Bohlen, Charles, p. 226. Bohlen was quartered with President Truman in the President’s villa.
6. Churchill, Volume VI, p. 545
7. Truman, Memoirs, Vol.1, p. 342
8. David McCullough, Truman, p. 406
9. Bright, The Inner Circle, p. 210
10. Cadogan, Diary, p. 763
11. Bright, Circle, p. 214
12. Mee, Meeting at Potsdam, p. 43. Also in Bright, p. 214
13. Moran, p. 267
14. McCullough, Truman, pp. 406-7
15. Telegraph, 5 May 2006
16. Montefiore, Simon Sebag, Stalin, p. 507
17. Moran, p. 281
18. Garrison, Gary, “Berlin 1945-2006: Historical Epilogue”, Finest Hour, No.132, p. 18
19. Ferrell (ed.), Robert H., Off The Record: The Private Papers of Harry S Truman, p. 51. Bohlen notes, “Where Roosevelt was warmly friendly with Churchill and Stalin, Truman was pleasantly distant.” Bohlen, p. 228
20. Truman, Memoirs, Vol. 1, p. 340
21. Donovan, Robert J. Conflict and Crisis, p. 75
22. Bohlen, Charles, Log of the President’s trip to the Berlin Conference”, Box 30, p. 24
23. Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, Never Despair, 1945-1965, Volume VIII, p. 70
24. Bohlen, Charles, Log of the President’s Trip to the Berlin Conference, p. 25
25. McCullough, Truman, p. 427
26. Ibid.
27. Dilks (ed.), p. 767
28. Rayfield, Donald, Times Literary Supplement Review of Molotov’s Magic Lantern, 23 April 2010
29. Mee p. 166
30. ed., Ferrell, Dear Bess: The Letters from Harry to Bess Truman, p. 521
31. Mee p. 166
32. Ibid. But the official Programme of Music lists it as The String Orchestra of the Royal Air Force.
33. Moran, p. 281
34. Ibid.
35. Truman, Memoirs, Vol.1, pp. 340 and 361
36. Cunningham, A Sailor’s Odyssey, p. 647
37. Broadbent, Michael, Wine Vintages, p. 28
38. Pawle, p. 396
39. Churchill, Volume VI, p. 579
40. Moran, p. 282
41. Moran p. 283
42. Churchill, Volume VI, p. 579
43. Ulam, Adam B., Stalin: The Man And His Era, p. 626
1. Westminster College Archives Press Release, 14 February 2006
2. PREM 11/418. Full text of telegram in Churchill and Bermuda 20th International Conference November 2003.
3. Churchill, “Land of Corn and Lobsters”, Colliers magazine, August 1933, p.133
4. Westminster College, Fulton. Missouri, Press Release 14 February 2006
5. Richards, Michael, “Commissioning Day”, Finest Hour 110, p.15
6. PREM 11/418
7. Gilbert, Volume VIII, p. 807
8. Ibid., p.936
9. Colville, Fringes, p. 688
10. Ibid.
11. Mid-Ocean Club, 8 November 2003
SECTION 2
1. Halle, Kay (ed.), Winston Churchill On America and Britain, p. 256
2. Moir, Phyllis, I Was Winston Churchill’s Private Secretary, p. 132
3. Winston S. Churchill, The Story of the Malakand Field Force, p. 201 (Originally published by Longmans, Green & Co. in 1898.)
4. CHAR 1/351/50-52
5. Soames (ed.), Speaking for Themselves, p. 582
6. Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, Volume VII, p. 127
7. Jenkins, p. 711
8. Addison, The Road to 1945, p. 245
9. CHAR 1/116/60
10. Gilbert, 1914-1916, Volume III, p. 502
11. Soames (ed.), Speaking for Themselves, p. 117
12. Ibid., p.164
13. Ibid., p. 178
14. Nicolson. Nigel (ed.), Harold Nicolson, The War Years, 1939-1945, p. 166
15. Pawle, p. 171
16. McGowan, p. 87
17. Montague Browne, Long Sunset: Memoirs of Winston Churchill’s Last Private Secretary, p. 314
18. Howells, Churchill’s Last Years, pp. 111-112
19. Eden, Anthony, Memoirs, The Reckoning, p. 202
20. Danchev and Todman (eds.), p. 390
21. Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food, p. 133
22. Moran, p. 283, referring to Churchill’s distaste for devilled chicken.
23. CHAR 1/391/1
24. Colville, p. 309
25. Murray, I Was Churchill’s Bodyguard, p. 90
26. Coote, p. 40
27. Cooke, Alistair, General Eisenhower on the Military Churchill, p. 54
28. Martin, John, MART 2, unpublished diaries for 30 November 1944, p. 168
29. Soames (ed.), Speaking for Themselves, p. 581
30. Buczacki, Stefan, Churchill and Chartwell, p. 258
31. Colville, John, The Churchillians, p. 112
32. Soames, Mary, Finest Hour, 115, p. 42
33. Ibid.
34. Soames, Mary, Clementine Churchill, p. 344
35. Brocklesby, Eddie, “Nan’s Kitchen at No. 10” from the Serpentine running Club Newsletter, Autumn, 2003, p. 3
36. Brocklesby, p. 3
37. BBC TV Archives, Joan Bakewell Interview, 1973
38. Langworth, Richard, Finest Hour, Frequently Asked Questions
39. Nicolson, Juliet, The Perfect Summer, p. 47
40. Finest Hour 144, Churchill Quiz, p. 63
41. Gilbert (ed.), Churchill War Papers, The Ever-Widening War 1941, Volume 3, p. 1470
42. Colville, p. 454 (paperback version)
43. McGowan, p. 89
44. Gilbert, Sir Martin, in conversation with Admiral Hetherington, 1965. Sir Martin Gilbert email to the author 19 April 2011
1. Moir, p 138
2. Churchill, Winston S., My Early Life: A Roving Commission, p. 125
3. Churchill, Randolph S., Winston S. Churchill, Youth, 1874-1900, Volume I, p. 453
4. Philip and Susan Larson, “Winston S. Churchill and Robert R. McCormick,” Finest Hour, 131, p. 33
5. McJimsey, George, Harry Hopkins: Ally of the Poor and Defender of Democracy. P. 140 refers to the “prodigious quantities of weak whiskey” that Churchill consumed during Hopkins’ 1941 visit to Britain.
6. Churchill, Winston S., My Early Life: A Roving Commission, p. 125
7. CHAR 1/400A/46
8. Tugwell, Rexford G., The Democratic Roosevelt, p. 593
9. Sherwood, Robert E., p. 442
10. Butcher, Captain Harry C., My Three Years With Eisenhower, p. 75
11. Skidelsky, Vol. 3, p. 92
12. Finest Hour, 131, p. 35
13. King, Mackenzie, Diary, 23 August 1941, from www.collectionscanada.gc.ca, p. 879
14. Kimball, Warren F., Forged in War: Roosevelt Churchill and the Second World War, p. 22
15. Reilly, Michael F., as told to William J. Slocum, Reilly of the White House, p. 125
16. Gilbert, Martin, In Search of Churchill, p. 209
17. Wilson, A.N., After The Victorians, p. 390
18. Moran, p. 390
19. Roberts, Andrew, Eminent Churchillians, p. 170
20. Harvey, John (ed.), The War Diaries of Oliver Harvey, 1941-1945, p. 369
21. Nevezhin, Vladimir A., in a collection of “Stalin’s Table Speeches”, Moscow: AIRO-XX, 2003
22. Gilbert, Volume VII p. 191
23. Moran, p. 59
24. Gilbert, Volume VII, p. 193
25. Churchill, The Malakand Field Force, p. 16
26. Kimball, Warren F., “Like Goldfish in a Bowl: The Alcohol Quotient”, Finest Hour, 134, p. 32
27. James, Robert Rhodes, Churchill: A Study in Failure, p. 389
28. Danchev and Todman (eds.), p. 566
29. Harmon, Christopher C., “Alanbrooke and Churchill”, a review of the Alanbrooke Diaries, in Finest Hour 112, p. 34
30. Langworth, Richard M. (ed.), Churchill by Himself, p. 550. (Langworth says that Churchill was paraphrasing a W.C. Fields retort.)
31. Acheson, Dean, Sketches From Life Of Men I have Known, p. 66. John Martin tells this same story taking place on 3 August 1941 on the train north when Churchill was on the way to meet with President Roosevelt in Newfoundland. Martin p. 56
32. Beschloss, p. 135
33. Letter from Jo Sturdee, later, Countess of Onslow, to her family from La Mamounia Hotel, Marrakesh, Morocco, 7 January 7 1948, to her family. ONSL 1
34. Louanne Cox, www.helium.com, February 2011.
35. CHUR 1/15/32 and 33
36. Gilbert, Volume VI, p. 336 note 1
37. Gilbert, Martin, In Search of Churchill, p. 209
38. Williams, Jane, conversations with author
39. Eden, The Reckoning, p. 494
40. Finest Hour 144, “The Churchill Quiz”, p. 63
41. Churchill, Randolph S., p .453
42. Langworth (ed.), Churchill by Himself, p. 37
43. Acheson, p. 64
44. Ray, Jonathan, “Winston Churchill drank Pol Roger by the Pint”, Telegraph, 30 September 2006
45. Telegraph, Odette Pol Roger, 30 December 2000
46. Roberts, Andrew, The Holy Fox: A Life of Lord Halifax, p. 186
47. Churchill, My Early Life, p. 178
48. McGowan, p. 90
49. Rose, Kenneth, The Elusive Rothschild, The Life of Victor, Third Baron, p. 58
50. Telegraph, Odette Pol Roger, 30 December 2000
51. Independent, Odette Pol Roger, 30 January 2001
52. www.polroger.co.uk
53. Ibid.
54. Ibid.
55. Dilks (ed.), Cadogan, p. 707
56. McGowan, p. 104
57. Kersaudy, Francois, Churchill et Monaco, p. 46
58. Rose, p. 73
59. McGowan, p. 55
60. Kimball, Warren, Finest Hour 134, p. 31
61. Bonham Carter, p. 135
62. Gilbert (ed.), Winston Churchill and Emery Reves: Correspondence, 1937-1964, pp. 376-377
63. Gilbert, Volume VIII, p 630
64. Rose, p. 53
1. Acheson, Dean, Sketches From Life Of Men I Have Known, p. 63, after a working lunch with Churchill at the British Embassy in Washington in 1946
2. Welsh, Peter, “A Gentleman of History”, Cigar Aficionado, Autumn, 1995, p. 1
3. Hough, Richard, Winston & Clementine, p. 69
4. CHUR 1/351/50-52
5. Howells, p. 94
6. Wingfield-Stratford, Esmé, Churchill: The Making of a Hero, p. 95
7. Acheson, Dean, Present at the Creation, p. 596
8. McGowan, Norman, My Years With Churchill, p. 93. Howells contends that Churchill did indeed smoke his cigars to the very end. p.35
9. That is the estimate of his valet, who precedes the “nine a day” estimate with the word “only”. McGowan, p. 92
10. Photo of letter, preserved at J.J. Fox
11. Golding, Ronald E., “Did You Fly? Hmph!”, Finest Hour 34, p. 4
12. Gilbert, Churchill, Vol. IV, 1916-1922, p. 139
13. McGowan, p. 93
14. Welsh, p. 2
15. CHUR 1/351/50-52
16. Howells, p.37; McGowan, p. 92, reports that the matches were “specially imported from America”, not Canada
17. Howells, p. 36
18. Howells, p. 35. This ashtray traveled with Churchill.
19. Welsh, p. 1
20. Hirshson, Stanley P., General Patton: A Soldier’s Life, pp. 299-300
21. Packwood, Allen, “Cigars: Protecting the Premier,” Finest Hour 106, p. 1
22. Rose, Kenneth, London, 2003, p. 73
23. Hall, Douglas, The Book of Churchilliana, p. 50
24. Vines, C. M., A Little Nut Brown Man, My Three Years with Beaverbrook, p. 28
25. West, Bruce, The Man Who Flew Churchill, p. 105
26. Gilbert, Volume VII, p. 921
27. Soames (ed.), Speaking for Themselves, p. 504. Clementine Churchill described it in a letter to her daughter as “a small shadow on one lung, but he himself is well …” Soames, Clementine Churchill, p. 357
28. Colville, p. 507
29. Soames, Speaking For Themselves, p. 504
30. Soames, Clementine Churchill, Revised Edition, p. 502
31. Colville, John, pp. 215-216
32. CHUR 1/15/169
33. CHUR 1/15/167
1. CAB 120/854
2. CAB 123/74
3. CAB 120/854
4. Gardiner, Juliet, Wartime London, 2004, p. 147
5. CAB 123/74
6. Gilbert, Volume VII, pp. 161 and Calder, Angus, The People’s War, p. 71
7. Calder, p. 405
8. NF 1/292 Home Intelligence Weekly Report, No. 90, 16-23 June 1942
9. Gilbert, Churchill War Papers, Volume III, p. 376
10. CHAR 1/379/40 and 1/379/39
11. CHAR 1/389/5
12. Nesbitt, p. 274
13. Hastings, Max, Finest Years: Churchill as War Lord 1940-1945, p. 202
14. News Chronicle, 30 September 1941
15. CHAR 1/380/25 and CHAR 1/368/85
16. CHAR 2/441/61
17. CHAR 2/446A
18. Profumo, David, The Laxford Shows its True Colours, Country Life, 6 October 2010, p. 104
19. CHAR 20/53C/256
20. Char 2/442/51
21. Char 2/446 B
22. Gilbert, Churchill War Papers, Volume 3, p. 357
23. Meiklejohn to Thompson, “Subject: Hams”, 3 January 1942. Library of Congress, Harriman Papers, Box 161, Folder 6
24. Colville, The Churchillians, p. 156
25. CHAR 20/138A/11
27. Ibid.
28. Pawle, p. 155
29. Hastings, p. 203
30. Gilbert, The Churchill War Papers, Volume 3, p. 990
31. MAF, 286/8
32. Wheeler-Bennett, Sir John (ed.), Action This Day: Working With Churchill, p. 30
33. Halle, Kay (ed.), Winston Churchill on America and Britain, p. 259
34. Gilbert, The Churchill War Papers, Never Surrender, Volume 2, p. 514
35. MAF 286/6
36. MAF 286/6
37. MAF 286/3
38. CAB 123/74
39. CAB 123/74
40. CAB 123/74
41. MAF 286/8
42. CHAR 1/394/22
43. CHAR 2/446/A
44. CHAR 2/445/72
45. CHAR 1/380/34
46. Nelson, James (ed.), General Eisenhower on the Military Churchill: A Conversation With Alistair Cooke, p.54
47. Unless otherwise indicated, correspondence relating to the affair of the plovers’ eggs can be found in MAF 286/1
1. Himmelfarb, Gertrude, The Moral Imagination: From Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling, p. 207
2. Jenkins, p. 95, cited by Himmelfarb, ibid.
3. Halle, Kay (ed.), The Irrepressible Churchill, p. 10
4. Martin Gilbert, email, 19 April 2011, to the author. The cigar may just be seen in the ash tray in the photograph on page 83 of Martin Gilbert’s book Churchill At War 1940-1945: His “Finest Hour” In Photographs
5. Halle, p.10.
6. G. R. Elton, Political History: Principles and Practice, p. 71. Cited in Himmelfarb, Moral Imagination, p. 197