The author is grateful to the following publishers, individuals, and companies for permission to reprint excerpts from selected material as noted below.
Quotations from the letters of Neville Chamberlain are reprinted by kind permission of the Head of Special Collections, University Library, University of Birmingham.
Quotations from the letters in the Baroness Spencer Churchill collection are reprinted by kind permission of Curtis Brown Ltd., London, on behalf of Lady Mary Soames. Copyright Mary Soames.
Quotations from the letters of Randolph Churchill are reprinted by kind permission of Curtis Brown Ltd., London, on behalf of the Estate of Randolph Churchill. Copyright the Estate of Randolph Churchill.
Winston S. Churchill from A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, reprinted by permission of Dodd, Mead and Co., Inc., the Canadian Publisher McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, and Cassell Publishers Ltd.
Winston S. Churchill from The Second World War: Volume I, The Gathering Storm. Copyright 1949 by Houghton Mifflin Company, Copyright © renewed 1976 by Lady Spencer Churchill and the Honourable Lady Sarah Audley, the Honourable Lady Soames. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company and Cassell Publishers Ltd.
John Colville from The Fringes of Power: 10 Downing Street Diaries 1939–1955. Copyright © 1985 by Hodder and Stoughton Ltd. Reprinted by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., and Hodder and Stoughton Limited.
Anthony Eden from Facing the Dictators. Copyright © 1962 by the Times Publishing Company, Ltd. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company, Macmillan London, and Times Newspapers Ltd.
Excerpt from “The Hollow Men” in Collected Poems 1909–1962 by T. S. Eliot, copyright 1936 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., copyright © 1963, 1964 by T. S. Eliot. Reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., and Faber and Faber Limited.
Martin Gilbert from Winston S. Churchill: Volume V, The Prophet of Truth 1922–1939. Copyright © 1976 by C & T Publications, Ltd. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company and William Heinemann Ltd.
Martin Gilbert from Winston S. Churchill: Volume VI, Finest Hour 1939–1941. Copyright © 1983 by C & T Publications, Ltd. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company and William Heinemann Ltd.
Kay Murphy Halle from The Irrepressible Churchill. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Thomas Jones from A Diary with Letters 1931–1950 (Oxford University Press, 1954). Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press.
Harold Macmillan from Winds of Change. Copyright © 1966 by Thompson Newspapers Ltd. Reprinted by permission of Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. and Macmillan London.
Harold Nicolson from Harold Nicolson: Diaries and Letters, 1930–1939. Volume I, edited by Nigel Nicolson. Harold Nicolson’s Diaries and Letters copyright © 1966 by William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. Introduction and Notes to this volume copyright © 1966 Nigel Nicolson. V. Sackville-West’s Letters copyright © 1966 by Sir Harold Nicolson. Reprinted with the permission of Atheneum Publishers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Company, and William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.
Harold Nicolson from The War Years, 1939–1945. Volume II of The Diaries and Letters of Harold Nicolson edited by Nigel Nicolson. Harold Nicolson’s Diaries and Letters copyright © 1967 by William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. Introduction and Notes to this volume copyright © 1967 Nigel Nicolson. V. Sackville-West’s Letters copyright © 1967 by Sir Harold Nicolson. Reprinted with the permission of Atheneum Publishers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Company, and William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.
Material from the Royal Archives reproduced with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.
Mary Soames from Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage copyright © Mary Soames 1979. Reproduced by permission of Curtis Brown Ltd., London, on behalf of Lady Mary Soames and Houghton Mifflin Company.
“Lambeth Walk” written by Noel Gay and Douglas Furber. Copyright © 1937 Richard Armitage Ltd. Copyright Renewed. All rights managed in the U.S. by Bibo Music Publishers (c/o The Welk Music Group, Santa Monica, CA 90401). International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission.
“WE’re Gonna Hang Out The Washing on the Siegfried Line” by Jim Kennedy and Michael Carr. © 1939 by Skidmore Music Co., Inc. for the territories of the United States and Canada. Copyright renewed. Used by permission. United Kingdom, © 1939 Francis Day & Hunter Ltd. Reproduced by permission of EMI Music Publishing Ltd., London, WC2H OLD.