The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History (51 page)

‘in other directions’
Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
, p. 180.

‘to hell with that
. . . weather’
Martin Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill, vol. 6: Finest Hour, 1939–1941
(London: 1983), p. 526.

‘the war
. . . Masonic plot’
Michael Cohen,
Britain’s Moment in Palestine: Retrospect and Perspectives, 1917–1948
(London: 2014), p. 14.

‘blasted rhetoric’
Jonathan Rose,
The Literary Churchill
(New Haven, Conn.: 2014), p. 296.

‘fetch Seal
. . . floes’
Max Hastings,
Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord, 1940–45
(London: 2009)
,
p. 106.

a fascinating study
. . . ‘butchery’
Richard Lamb,
Churchill as War Leader
(London: 1991).

‘All efforts
. . . success’
Sheila Lawlor,
Churchill and the Politics of War, 1940–1941
(London: 1994), pp. 57–58.

‘at all costs, at all risks
. . .
to ruin’
Winston Churchill,
The Second World War: Their Finest Hour,
pp. 197–98.

‘Honourable discussions’
See ‘Battle Summary no.1’, http://www.hmshood.org.uk/reference/official/adm234/adm234-317.htm. Accessed 2 September 2014.

‘If we had known
. . . all the difference’
David Brown,
The Road to Oran: Anglo-French Naval Relations, September 1939–July 1940
(London: 2004), p. xxix.

‘Settle matters quickly’
‘Diary of Events’, 3 July 1940, CHAR 9/173A–B.

‘It was a terrible decision
. . . state’
Winston Churchill, 4 July 1940, House of Commons,
Hansard,
HC Deb, vol. 362, cc1043–51.

‘unending suffering and misery’
Adolph Hitler, 19 July 1940, in David Jablonsky,
Churchill and Hitler: Essays on the Political-Military Direction of Total War
(London: 1994), p. 220.

‘Hitler must invade
. . . fail he will’
Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill, vol.6: Finest Hour
, p. 663.

that speech on Oran
Winston Churchill, 4 July 1940, House of Commons,
Hansard,
HC Deb, vol. 362, cc1043–51.

17.
T
HE
W
OOING OF
A
MERICA

‘Sit down
. . . drag the United States in’
Martin Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill, vol.6: Finest Hour, 1939–1941
(London: 1983), p. 358.

‘It is 27 years ago
. . . enough’
David Roll
, The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler
(London: 2013), p. 137.

‘Not a single
. . . ourselves’
John Keegan,
The Second World War
(New York: 1989), p. 539.

‘left
. . . dissatisfaction’
Richard Toye,
The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Winston Churchill’s World War Two Speeches
(London: 2013), p. 114.

‘kiss Uncle Sam
. . . not on all four’
Norman Rose,
Churchill: An Unruly Life
(London: 1994), p. 183.

‘Strong drink
. . . all my life’
John Ramsden,
Man of the Century: Winston Churchill and His Legend Since 1945
(London: 2009), p. 132.

‘As one former
. . . to another’
See Admiral Boyce, ‘Formal Naval Persons’, http://www.winstonchurchill.org/support/the-churchill-centre/publications/finest-hour-online/1305-qformer-naval-personsq. Accessed 2 September 2014.

‘Even though
. . . liberation of the old’
Winston Churchill, ‘We Shall Fight Them on the Beaches’, 4 June 1940, http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/speeches-of-winston-churchill/128-we-shall-fight-on-the-beaches. Accessed 2 September 2014.

the Oran speech
Winston Churchill, 4 July 1940,
Hansard,
HC Deb, vol. 362, cc1043–51.

‘the most unsordid act in history’
Winston Churchill, 24 August 1945,
Hansard,
HC Deb, vol. 413, cc955–8.

Britain was being skinned
. . . to the bone
Martin Gilbert,
Churchill and America
(London: 2005), p. 219.

‘There is nothing
. . . kill anything’
Martin Gilbert,
The Churchill War Papers, vol.3: The Ever-Widening War
(London: 1993), p. 1399.

‘The British Prime Minister
. . . United States’
Richard Langworth,
Churchill’s Wit: The Definitive Collection
(New York: 2009), p. 16.

‘Sure I am
. . . forefront of the battle’
Winston Churchill, ‘Address to the Congress of the United States’, 26 December 1941; Martin Gilbert, ed.,
Churchill: The Power of Words: His Remarkable Life Recounted Through His Writings and Speeches
(London: 2012), p. 294.

‘No one
. . . war at all
Martin Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill, vol. 7: Road to Victory, 1941–1945
(London: 2000), p. 553.

‘Saturated
. . . thankful’
Martin Gilbert,
Churchill and America
(London: 2005), p. 245.

18.
T
HE
G
IANT OF THE
S
HRUNKEN
I
SLAND

‘This will never do’
Alan ‘Tommy’ Lascelles,
King’s Counsellor, Abdication and War: The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles
(London: 2006), p. 224.

a letter for the King
King George VI to Winston Churchill, 31 May 44; CHAR 20/136/10.

‘To this the unfortunate
. . . violently’
Lascelles,
King’s Counsellor
, p. 226.

‘Tommy’s face
. . . longer’
Ibid.

‘I was thinking
. . . risk is 100–1’
Ibid.

‘in this instance
. . . selfishness’
Ibid.

a second and firmer reprimand
King George VI to Winston Churchill, 2 June 44; CHAR 20/136/4.

‘That is certainly a strong argument’
Lascelles,
King’s Counsellor
, p. 227.

‘the most ghastly
. . . whole war’
Max Hastings,
Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944
(London: 2012), p. 1.

‘front page stuff’
Lascelles,
King’s Counsellor
, p. 228.

‘unnecessary battle’
For instance, see Correlli Barnett,
The Battle of El Alamein
(London: 1964).

‘I can’t get the victories
. . . hard to get’
Vincent O’Hara,
In Passage Perilous: Malta and the Convoy Battles of June 1942
(Bloomington, Ind.: 2012), p. 67.

‘Many British officers
. . . Japanese’
Max Hastings, ‘After a Series of Military Defeats Even Churchill Started to Fear That Our Army Was Simply Too Yellow to Fight’,
The Daily Mail
, 21 August 2009.

‘Father
. . . soldiers won’t fight’
Andrew Roberts,
Masters and Commanders: The Military Geniuses Who Led the West to Victory in World War II
(London: 2009), p. 287.

‘We had so many
. . . done better’
Max Hasting, ‘On Churchill’s Fighting Spirit’
, Financial Times,
4 September 2009, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e6824d52-98e2-11de-aa1b-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3CBVtTd9C. Accessed 3 September 2014.

‘Defeat is one thing

. . . another’
Robert Dallek,
Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945
(Oxford: 1995), p. 347.

‘He wins
. . . battle’
Norman Rose,
Churchill: The Unruly Giant
(New York: 1995), p. 389.

‘You British
. . . fighting’
Martin Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill, vol. 7: Road to Victory, 1941–1945
(New York: 1986), p. 185.

‘a tumbler
. . . cigars!!’
Arthur Bryant,
The Turn of the Tide: A History of the War Years Based on the Diaries of Field-Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff
(New York: 1957), p. 464.

‘had a plug’
Winston Churchill to President Roosevelt, 14 June 1944
; Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 6: Triumph and Tragedy
(London: 1953), p. 28.