Index

Aa Canal, 40, 44–45

Alba, Duke of, 173

Alexander, A. V, 142, 190n.

Allingham, Margery, 31 ff., 163, 198–99

Amery, Leo, 5–6, 8, 184n.

Astor, Nancy, 131, 157

Attlee, C. R., 68, 71, 94, 107, 109, 120, 127, 157

Australia, 75, 142

Austria, 8–9, 59

Baldwin, Stanley, 8, 14, 50–51, 62

Ball, Sir Joseph, 90

Barcza, György, 173

Bastianini, Giuseppe, 89ff., 105, 108 ff., 147, 172–73, 186n.

Beaton, Cecil, 17

Beaverbrook, Lord, 96, 210

Belgium, 15, 85, 96, 105–6, 140, 177, 215

Bell, Clive, 158n.

Bell, P. M. H., 28n., 107n., 152n.

Berle, Adolf, 72n.

Betjeman, John, 134

Bloch, Marc, 174

Bock, Fedor von, 192

Bonaparte, 126, 134

Bond, Brian, 17n., 40n.

Boothby, Robert, 16–17

Borrow, George, 129n.

Boulogne, 15, 19–20, 26, 39, 42, 99

Brabourne, Lord, 58n.

Bridges, Sir Edward, 113, 202n.

Brittain, Vera, 33–34, 200

Bruce, Stanley, 142

Bullitt, William C, 75, 144

Burke, Edmund, 124–25

Buder, R. A., 24–25, 37 ff., 76, 92, 203–4

Cadogan, Alexander, 64, 111n., 119, 145, 152n., 174, 195

Calais, 15, 19, 26–27, 39, 42 ff., 71, 129, 136, 141

Caldecote, Viscount, 142

Campbell, Sir Ronald, 143

Campinchi, César, 88–89

Canada, 76

Cannadine, David, 21

Cartier de Marchienne, 173

Casdereagh, 125

Cazalet, Victor, 203n.

Chamberlain, Joseph, 54

Chamberlain, Neville, 5 ff., 8 ff., 12, 17, 19, 31, 48, 51

with Churchill, 14, 23, 53, 69, 119 ff.

conservatism of, 52 ff., 61 ff., 81

on 26 May, 105, 109–10, 113, 115, 117, 119 ff

on 27 May, 141–42, 146, 151–52, 156

on 28 May, 177–78, 182, 190, 195, 210

Channon, Henry (Chips), 210

Charmley, John, 215

Chesterton, G. K., 13

Churchill, Clementine (Mrs. Winston), 105

Churchill, Mary, 24

Churchill, Winston, 1 ff

War Memoirs, 1 ff., 41

on 10 May, 5–6

in 1938-39, 10–11

relations with Chamberlain, 14, 23, 53, 69, 119 ff

in April 1940, 13

distrust of, 14, 21–22

on 13 May, 25

on 16 May, 26

on 18 May, 18, 25

on 19 May, 35–36, 38, 42 ff

on 24 May, 42–43, 53, 71 ff

on 25 May, 45, 86, 91, 95 ff

relations with Halifax, 61, 65 ff., 94–95, 108–9, 112 ff., 116–17, 123 ff., 146 ff., 153–54, 180–81, 202, 205

relations with Roosevelt, 72 ff., 81, 143–45, 153, 172

on 26 May, 104 ff., 128–30

on 27 May, 146ff.

on 28 May, 2–5, 162ff., 172, 177–78, 183 ff., 189–90

on 29 May and after, 189 ff., 201 ff., 211, 218–19

vision of Europe, 213–16

Ciano, Galeazzo, 98n.

Clark, Alan, 215

Clark, Kenneth, 30–31, 56–57

Colville, John, 19, 24–25, 56–57, 190, 214n.

Colvin, Ian, 69

Communism, Communists, 7, 51–52, 54, 189n., 217

Connolly, Cecil, 30, 167

Corbin, Charles, 172

Coughlin, Rev. Charles, 52

Cowling, Maurice, 215

Craigie, Sir Robert, 176

Cripps, Sir Stafford, 79, 109, 125, 169

Cunningham, Sir Andrew, 175

Czechoslovakia, 8 ff.

Dahlerus, Birger, 88n.

Daily Express, 84, 98, 104, 130, 158, 169, 197

Daily Herald, 72, 84, 98–99, 159

Daily Mail, 79, 84, 98, 169–70, 197

Daily Mirror, 169

Daily Telegraph, 77, 197

Dalton, Hugh, 4–5, 157, 183, 204

Darroch, J. M., 99

Davidson, Lord, 14

Dawson, Geoffrey, 131

De Gaulle, Charles, 53, 163, 207–8

Denmark, 12, 215

Dill, Sir John, 97

Disraeli, Benjamin, 128

Duff Cooper, Alfred, 155–56, 158, 177

Dunkirk, 3, 19–20, 26–27, 40ff., 71, 95, 97, 116, 130, 136 ff., 190ff.

Eden, Anthony, 9, 18, 90, 105, 129, 204

Engel, Major, 42

Esnouf, G. N., 56n., 117n., 119n., 120n.

Evening Standard, 77

Fagalde, General, 45–46

Firth, J. B., 78

Forrestal, James, 55n.

Gamelin, Maurice, 19

George VI, 12, 22, 27, 68, 100, 104 ff., 123

Gibraltar, 116

Gladstone, W. H., 168

Goebbels, Josef, 47, 62

Goering, Hermann, 42, 62, 65, 88–89, 140, 193

Gort, Lord, 42, 46, 86, 108, 130, 137–38, 174, 192 ff.

Greenwood, Arthur, 68, 77, 105, 107, 113, 116, 127, 183

Guderian, Heinz W., 27, 40, 44–45

Halder, Franz, 16

Halifax, Lord (Edward Wood), 5n., 9n., 11, 13–14, 22, 23, 48, 50, 57n., 58 ff.

relations with Churchill, 61, 65 ff., 94–95, 108–9, 112 ff., 116–17, 123 ff., 146 ff., 153–54, 180–81, 202, 205

relation with Hitler, 62–64, 68, 71, 75, 81

on 25 May, 89 ff., 105

on 26 May, 118 ff., 123 ff., 136, 144–45

on 27 May, 150–51, 153 ff., 169

on 28 May, 180–81, 185–86, 194–95; 202 ff., 211

Hankey, Lord, 23, 57n.

Harris, Sir Percy, 180

Harrisson, Tom, 34

Harvey, Oliver, 19, 63

“Haw-Haw” (William Joyce), 100, 133

Henrey, Mrs. Robert, 208–9

Hickey, William, 197n.

Hillgruber, Andreas, 216

Hindenburg, Paul von, 57

Hinsley, Cardinal Arthur, 159, 191

Hitler, Adolf, 1–2, 6 ff., 12–13, 15 ff., 65, 92, 94, 109, 112 ff., 120–21, 128, 131, 140, 161, 164, 178, 181, 183, 187–89, 193, 206–7, 212–13, 216–18

ambition toard Britain and the British, 16, 29, 46–47, 128, 176–77, 200–201, 206

halt order, 39 ff., 45, 137, 192–94

Hoare, Sir Samuel, 18, 50, 58n.

Holland, 13, 71, 79, 85

Hore-Belisha, Leslie, 17n.

Hugenberg, Alfred, 48, 51

Ickes, Harold, 72n.

Ireland, 117

Ironside, Sir Edmund, 18, 26n., 45, 97, 129

Ismay, Sir Hastings, 18, 43, 94, 105, 129, 175, 192n.

Italy, 53–54, 85, 90 ff., 114ff., 146 ff.

Jeschonnek, Hans, 41n.

Jews, 55n., 59, 79, 99, 174

Johnson, Samuel, 53

Kennedy, Joseph, 17, 55, 72, 74, 118, 157n., 171–72

Kent, Tyler, 74

Keyes, Sir Roger, 105–6, 140, 194

King, Cecil, 29n.

King, Mackenzie, 75–76

Laval, Pierre, 87

Lawlor, Sheila, 19n., 53n., 126, 215–16

Lebrun, Albert, 87–88

Lees-Smith, H. B., 179–80

Léger, Alexis, 112n.

Lenin, V. I., 216

Leopold III, King of Belgium, 71, 96, 115–16, 140, 197n., 215, 217

Lindemann, Frederick, 96

Lithuania, 11

Lloyd, Lord, 5

Lloyd George, David, 22, 121, 128–29, 159n., 177–78

Long, Huey, 53

Loraine, Sir Percy, 118

Lothian, Philip, 153n.

Low, Bernard, 164, 170

MacDonald, Ramsay, 8

Madge, Charles, 34

Maisky, Ivan, 173

Malta, 116

Manchester Guardian, 77–78, 84, 157

Margesson, David, 57n.

Martin, John, 129n.

Mass Observation (M.-O.), 34ff., 80–81, 102–3, 160–61, 165–66, 198, 213

Medlicott, W. N., 107n.

Ministry of Information, 100, 132

Molinié, General, 139

Molotov, V. M., 170

Montgomery, Bernard Law, 196

Morand, Paul, 172n.

Morrison, Herbert, 184

Mosley, Sir Oswald, 5, 81, 89, 129, 183

Muggeridge, Malcolm, 30, 83n.

Mussolini, Benito, 8, 15, 54, 85, 110ff., 114–15, 120n., 125, 146 ff., 158, 172, 182, 193, 205

Neave, Airey, 20, 44–45

News Chronicky 76, 79, 99, 159, 169–70, 197

New Zealand, 75

Nicholson, Claude, 20, 43, 45–46, 97, 129

Nicolson, Harold, 131, 157, 158n., 168–69, 198

Nordling, 88n.

Norway, 12, 88n.

Orwell, George, 30, 86n., 158n., 167–68, 171n., 209–10

Pascal, Blaise, 29, 31

Percival, A. E., 42

Perowne, Stewart, 21n.

Pétain, Philippe, 53, 77, 86–87, 111, 203, 215

Phillimore, Lord, 91

Poland, 11–12

Powell, Anthony, 30

Powell, Enoch, 218n.

Pownall, Henry, 17, 23–24, 43n., 44, 50n., 54, 174, 202, 208–9

Prioux, General, 139

Prytz, Björn, 203

Raczynski, Edward, 173

Ramsey, Sir Bertram, 137

Reynaud, Paul, 77, 86, 105, 111 ff., 130, 147ff., 181–82, 192, 216

Reynolds, David, 127, 157n., 215

Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 63n., 69n.

Roberts, Andrew, 19n., 21n., 50, 57n., 60, 66, 94–95, 123, 127, 151n., 155n., 185, 186n., 214n.

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 72n.

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 53, 71 ff., 118, 143–44, 157n., 172, 188, 206–7

Rundstedt, Karl, 34 ff., 192

Russia, 29, 51, 80, 90, 168–69, 214

Sargent, Sir Orme, 186n.

Schacht, Hjalmar, 51

Schroeder, Christa, 41n.

Schuschnigg, Kurt von, 59

Scotsman, The, 78

Shaw, G. B., 79

Sheridan, Dorothy, 34n.

Sinclair, Archibald, 117, 145, 147

Somerville, Sir James, 137, 141

Soviet Union. See Russia

Spain, 53

Spears, Sir Edward, 105, 141, 156, 192

Stalin, J.V, Ion., 55, 115, 170, 188, 205, 216

Suez, 116

Taylor, A. J. P., 205n.

Tennant, E. W. D., 59

Tennant, W. G., 138

Times, The, 76, 78n., 99–100, 131, 139

Thompson, W. H., 6, 13

Vansittart, Sir Robert, 92, 180

Villelume, Paul de, 11–12, 156n.

War Office, 20, 43, 45

Waterhouse, Charles, 19

Waugh, Evelyn, 30, 82–83, 168

Weizsaecker, Ernst von, 42

Welles, Sumner, 72n.

Weygand, Máxime, 19, 26, 47, 86ff., 111

Wiedemann, Fritz, 63–64

Wilhelmina, Queen of Netherlands, 96, 104

Wilson, Sir Horace, 57 ff., 65, 91

Wilson, Woodrow, 11

Wodehouse, P. G., 83–84

Woolf, Virginia, 103, 199n.

Yorkshire Post, 118, 198