NOTES

INTRODUCTION

1 Some military historians dispute this frequent claim, pointing out that the British army engaged in cavalry charges in the Boer War just a few years later.

2 Winston Churchill, The River War, unabridged (1899), chapter 19.

3 Violet Bonham Carter, Winston Churchill: An Intimate Portrait, p. 25.

4 William Manchester, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874–1932, vol. 1 (Little, Brown and Company, 1983), p. 12.

5 Isaiah Berlin, “Winston Churchill in 1940,” Personal Impressions (London: Hogarth Press, 1981), p. 4.

6 Peter Stansky, Churchill: A Profile, p., 197, in Manchester, The Last Lion, vol. 1, p. 12.

7 Winston Churchill, My Early Life (1930), p. 67.

CHAPTER 1

1 Winston Churchill, The World Crisis (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1931; republished New York: The Free Press, 2005), p. 3. The three previous occasions on which “the British people [had] rescued Europe from a military domination” were the wars of Philip II of Spain, the wars of Louis XIV of France, and the upheavals from the French Revolution through the Napoleonic wars.

CHAPTER 2

1 Speech at Guildhall, Plymouth, August 17, 1900, in Winston Churchill, The World Crisis (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1931; republished New York: The Free Press, 2005).

2 William Manchester, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874–1932, vol. 1 (Little, Brown and Company, 1983), pp. 318–19.

3 Churchill, The World Crisis, p. 3.

CHAPTER 3

1 Randolph Churchill, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 2, “Young Statesman, 1901–1914,” p. 500.

CHAPTER 9

1 Martin Gilbert, Churchill: A Life (Henry Holt and Company, LLC, 1991 ), p. xix.

2 In Paul Johnson, Churchill (Penguin Books, 2010), p. 23.

CHAPTER 14

1 James C. Humes, The Wit & Wisdom of Winston Churchill (HarperCollins, 1994), p. 155.

CHAPTER 17

1 John Strawson, Churchill and Hitler (Constable, 1997), p. 182.

2 John Lukacs, Churchill: Visionary, Statesman, Historian (Yale University Press, 2004), p. 5.

3 William Manchester, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932–40, vol. 2 (Little, Brown and Company, 1983), p. 82.

4 Ibid., p. 311.

5 Ibid., pp. 82–83.

CHAPTER 22

1 Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill: Never Despair, 1874–1965, vol. 8 (Stoddart Kids, 1988), p. 7.

CHAPTER 23

1 Speech to the House of Commons, March 1, 1955.

CHAPTER 24

1 Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill: Never Despair, 1874–1965, vol. 8 (Stoddart Kids, 1988), p. 684.

CHAPTER 25

1 Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill: Never Despair, 1874–1965, vol. 8 (Stoddart Kids, 1988), p. 680.

CHAPTER 26

1 Klaus Larres, Churchill’s Cold War: The Politics of Personal Diplomacy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), p. xv.

2 John Lukacs, “Blood, Sweat, and Fears,” The New Republic, January 13, 2003, p. 37.

CHAPTER 27

1 Scholarly opinion is nearly unanimous that delegating American armed forces to UN command, as Churchill suggested, would be unconstitutional.