THE AUTHOR AND PUBLISHERS wish to thank Curtis Brown Ltd, London on behalf of the Estate of Winston Churchill for permission to reproduce copyright material from the following works: The 8-volume Collected Speeches of Winston Churchill, ed. R.R. James; Churchill’s own works, The History of the Second World War I and VI, The World Crisis I and II, My Early Life, Great Contemporaries, Step by Step, Thoughts and Adventures, The River War, My African Journey; the Martin Gilbert biography, Volumes 2-8; and The Collected Essays of Winston Churchill I and II.
The author and publishers also wish to thank the following for their kind permission to reproduce copyright material from the following sources: With Love and Kisses by C. Sandys, Sinclair Stevenson Publishers; Churchill: A Profile, ed. D. Stansky, and Action This Day, ed. Sir J.W. Bennett, Pan Macmillan, London; Masters and Commanders by A. Roberts, Penguin, London; Churchill as Peacemaker, ed. J. Muller, and Diplomacy and World Power, ed. M. Dockrill and B. McKercher, Cambridge University Press; The Myth of Rescue by A. Rubinstein, Taylor and Francis Publishers; Churchill and War by G. Best, Continuum International Publishing Group; Churchill: The Unexpected Hero by P. Addison, and Churchill, ed. Blake and Louis, Oxford University Press. Every effort has been made to contact copyright holders. The publishers would be happy to include any omissions in future editions.
LIKE ALL CHURCHILL scholars, I am indebted to Sir Martin Gilbert’s multi-volume ‘official biography’ which comprises 6 of the 8 volumes of narrative and 13 companion volumes of documents. I have also made extensive use of the 8-volume edition of Churchill’s speeches edited by Robert Rhodes James. In the notes, these volumes are referred to as follows:
Official biography: ‘WSC Bio’, followed by the volume number.
Companion volumes: ‘Companion’, followed by the volume and page number. Where Companion volumes are themselves subdivided into volumes, I have inserted i, ii and iii before the page number.
Speeches volumes: ‘Speeches’, followed by the volume and page number.
Addison, Paul, Churchill on the Home Front (Pimlico, 1993)
Addison, Paul, The Road to 1945 (Pimlico, 1994)
Addison, Paul, Churchill (OUP, 2005)
Aldritt, Keith, Churchill the Writer (Hutchinson, 1992)
Allfrey, Anthony, Edward VII and his Jewish Court (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1991)
Ashley, Maurice, Churchill as Historian (Secker & Warburg, 1968)
Balcon, Michael, A Lifetime of Films (Hutchinson, 1969)
Ben-Gurion, David, Ben-Gurion Looks Back (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1965)
Ben-Moshe, Tuvia, Churchill: Strategy and History (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1992)
Berlin, Isaiah, Mr. Churchill in 1940 (John Murray, 1949)
Berthon, Simon, Allies at War (HarperCollins, 2001)
Best, Geoffrey, Churchill: A Study in Greatness (Hambledon and London, 2001)
Best, Geoffrey, Churchill and War (Hambledon and London, 2005)
Birkenhead, F.E., The Life of F. E. Smith (Eyre & Spotiswoode, 1965)
Blake, Robert and Louis, W. Louis, Churchill (Oxford University Press, 1993)
Blake, Robert, The Conservative Party from Peel to Thatcher (Eyre & Spotiswoode, 1970)
Bonham-Carter, Violet, Winston Churchill as I Knew Him (Eyre & Spotiswoode, 1965)
Calder, Angus, The Myth of the Blitz (Pimlico, 1992)
Callahan, Raymond, Retreat from Empire (Scholarly Resources Inc., 1984)
Cannadine, David and Quinault, Ronald, Winston Churchill in the Twenty First Century (CUP, 2004)
Carey, John, The Intellectuals and the Masses (Faber & Faber, 1992)
Carlton, David, Churchill and the Soviet Union (Manchester Union Press, 2000)
Catherwood, Christopher, Churchill’s Folly (Carroll & Graf, 2005)
Chaplin, E.D.W., Winston Churchill and Harrow (Harrow School Bookshop, 1941)
Churchill, Randolph, Winston S. Churchill, Volume I: Youth (Heinemann, 1966)
Churchill, Randolph, Companion Volumes to Volume I
Churchill, Randolph (1967), Winston S. Churchill, Volume II: Young Statesman (Heinemann, 1967)
Churchill, Randolph, Companion Volumes to Volume II
Churchill, Sarah, A Thread in the Tapestry (Andre Deutsch, 1967)
Churchill, Winston, The Story of the Malakand Field Force (Longmans Green & Co., 1898)
Churchill, Winston, The River War (Longmans, Green & Co., 1899)
Churchill, Winston, My African Journey (1908)
Churchill, Winston, The People’s Rights (1909, reprinted 1970)
Churchill, Winston, The World Crisis, 1911-18, 2 volumes (Odhams Press, 1938)
Churchill, Winston, My Early Life (Odhams Press, 1930)
Churchill, Winston, Thoughts and Adventures (Odhams Press, 1932)
Churchill, Winston, Great Contemporaries (Odhams Press, 1937)
Churchill, Winston, Step by Step (Odhams Press, 1939)
Churchill, Winston, The History of the Second World War, 6 volumes (1948-54)
Churchill, Winston, The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill, 4 volumes (Library of Imperial History, 1976)
Clarke, Peter, Hope and Glory: Britain 1900-2000 (Penguin, 2004)
Clayton, Tim and Craig, Phil, Finest Hour (Hodder & Stoughton, 1999)
Cohen, Michael, Churchill and the Jews (Frank Cass, 2003)
Colville, John, The Churchillians (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981)
Colville, John, The Fringes of Power (Hodder & Stoughton, 1985)
de Gaulle, Charles, The Call to Honour 1940-2 (Collins, 1955)
Dear, I.C.B (ed), The Oxford Companion to World War II (OUP, 2005)
Desai, Meghnad, Rethinking Islamism (I.B Tauris, 2007)
Dockrill, Michael and McKercher, Brian (eds), Diplomacy and World Power (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
Donnelly, Mark, Britain in the Second World War (Routledge, 1999)
Eade, Charles (ed), Churchill by His Contemporaries (Hutchinson, 1953)
Gilbert, Martin, Winston S. Churchill, Volume III: The Challenge of War (Heinemann, 1971)
Gilbert, Martin, Companion Volumes to Volume III, 2 volumes
Gilbert, Martin Winston S. Churchill, Volume IV: A Stricken World (Heinemann, 1975)
Gilbert, Martin, Companion Volumes to Volume IV, 3 volumes
Gilbert, Martin, Winston S. Churchill, Volume V: Prophet of Truth (Heinemann, 1976)
Gilbert, Martin, Companion Volumes to Volume V, 3 volumes
Gilbert, Martin, Winston S. Churchill, Volume VI: Finest Hour (Book Club Associates, 1983)
Gilbert, Martin (ed), War Papers I
Gilbert, Martin (ed), War Papers II
Gilbert, Martin (ed), War Papers III
Gilbert, Martin, Winston S. Churchill, Volume VII: The Road to Victory (Stoddart Publishing, 1986)
Gilbert, Martin, Winston S. Churchill, Volume VIII: Never Despair (Heinemann, 1988)
Gilbert, Martin, The Wilderness Years (Macmillan, 1981)
Gilbert, Martin, Auschwitz and the Allies (Pimlico, 1981)
Gilbert, Martin, Churchill’s Political Philosophy (OUP, 1981)
Gilbert, Martin, Churchill: A Life (Pimlico, 1991)
Gilbert, Martin, In Search of Churchill (HarperCollins, 1994)
Gilbert, Martin, Winston Churchill’s War Leadership (Vintage Books, 2003)
Gilbert, Martin, Churchill and America (Free Press, 2005)
Gilbert, Martin, Churchill and the Jews (Simon & Schuster, 2007)
Graebner, William, My Dear Mr. Churchill (Michael Joseph, 1965)
Haffner, Sebastian, Churchill (Haus Publishing, 2003)
Harriman, W. Averell, Special Envoy (Hutchinson, 1976)
Hart-Davis, Duff, King’s Counsellor (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006)
Haste, Cate (ed), Clarissa Eden: A Memoir (Phoenix, 2008)
Hayward, James, Myths and Legends of the Second World War (Sutton Publishing, 2004)
Hayward, Steven, Churchill on Leadership (Gramercy Books, 2004)
Hickman, Tom, Churchill’s Bodyguard (Headline, 2005)
Higham, Charles, Dark Lady (Virgin Books, 2006)
Hill, Malcolm, Churchill: His Radical Decade (Othila Press, 1999)
Holmes, Colin, Anti-Semitism in British Society (Holmes & Meier, 1979)
Howard, Michael, The Continental Commitment (Michael Howard, 1972)
Howells, Roy, Simply Churchill (Robert Hale, 1965)
Humes, James, Churchill: Speaker of the Century (Stein & Day, 1980) Hylton, Stuart, Their Darkest Hour (Sutton Publishing, 2001)
Jablonsky, David, Churchill: The Great Game and Total War (Frank Cass & Co., 1991)
James, R.R. (ed), Memoirs of a Conservative: J.C.C. Davidson’s Memoirs and Papers 1910-37 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969)
James, R.R., Churchill: A Study in Failure (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970)
James, R.R. (ed), Churchill: The Complete Speeches (Chelsea House Publishers, 1974)
James, R.R. (ed), Chips (Phoenix, 1996)
Jeffreys, Kevin, Finest and Darkest Hours (Atlantic Books, 2002)
Keegan, John, Churchill (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002)
Knight, Nigel, Churchill: The Greatest Briton Unmasked (David & Charles, 2008)
Lamb, Richard, Churchill as War Leader – Right or Wrong (Bloomsbury, 1991)
Lamb, Richard, Mussolini and the British (John Murray, 1997)
Laqueur, Walter (ed), The Holocaust Encyclopedia (Yale University Press, 2001)
Larres, Klaus, Churchill’s Cold War (Yale, 2002)
Lawlor, Sheila, Churchill and the Politics of War (CUP, 1994)
Lee, Geoffrey, The People’s Budget: An Edwardian Tragedy (Shepheard-Walwyn, 2008)
Littman, Jonathan and Sandys, Celia, We Shall Not Fail (Portfolio, 2003)
Litvinoff, Barnet, Weizmann (Hodder & Stoughton, 1976)
Lloyd George, Frances, The Years that are Past (Hutchinson, 1967)
Lloyd George, Robert, David and Winston (John Murray, 2005)
Louis, W.M. Roger, In the Name of God, Go! (W.W. Norton, 1992)
Lukacs, John, The Duel (Ticknor & Fields, 1990)
Lukacs, John, 5 days in London (Yale, 1999)
Lukacs, John, Churchill: Strategy and History (Yale University Press, 2002)
Lukacs, John, Churchill: Visionary, Statesman, Historian (Yale University Press, 2002)
-McDonough, Frank, Neville Chamberlain: Appeasement and the British Road to War (Manchester University Press, 1998)
McGowan, Norman, My Years with Churchill (Pan Books, 1958)
Macmillan, Harold, War Diaries: The Mediterranean 1943-5 (Macmillan, 1984)
Makovsky, Michael, Churchill’s Promised Land (Yale University Press, 2007)
Manchester, William, The Last Lion: Visions of Glory (Little Brown, 1983)
Mansfield, Steven, The Character and Greatness of Winston Churchill (Cumberland House, 1995)
Martin, Sir John, Downing Street: The War Years (Bloomsbury, 1991)
Menzies, Sir Robert, Afternoon Light (Cassell, 1967)
Moir, Phyllis, I was Winston Churchill’s Private Secretary (Wilfred Funk, 1941)
Montague-Brown, Anthony, Long Sunset (Cassell, 1995)
Moran, Lord, Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940-55 (Houghton Mifflin, 1966)
Morton, H.V., Atlantic Meeting (Methuen, 1943)
Muller, James (ed), Churchill as Peacemaker (CUP, 1997)
Nave, Eric and Russbridger, James, Betrayal at Pearl Harbor (Michael O’Mara Books Limited, 1991)
Nel, Elizabeth, Mr. Churchill’s Secretary (Hodder & Stoughton, 1958)
Neville, Peter, Churchill: Statesman or Opportunist? (Hodder & Stoughton, 1996)
Nicolson, Nigel (ed), Harold Nicolson: Diaries and Letters, 1939-45 (Fontana Books, 1970)
Norwich, John Julius (ed), The Duff Cooper Diaries (Phoenix, 2006)
Parker, R.A.C., Churchill and Appeasement (Papermac, 2001)
Paxman, Jeremy, The English
Pearson, John, The Private Lives of Winston Churchill (Simon & Schuster, 1991)
Pelling, Henry, Britain and the Second World War (Collins, 1970)
Ponting, Clive, 1940: Myth and Reality (Hamish Hamilton, 1990)
Pottle, Mark (ed), Lantern Slides: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham-Carter 1904-14 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1996)
Pottle, Mark (ed), Champion Redoubtable: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham-Carter 1914-45 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998)
Pottle, Mark (ed), Daring to Hope: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham-Carter 1946-69 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000)
Rabinowicz, Oscar, Churchill on Jewish Problems (Lincolns-Prager Publishers Ltd, 1956)
Ramsden, John, Churchill: Man of the Century (Columbia University Press, 2003)
Ranson, Edward, British Defence Policy and Appeasement Between the Wars, 1919-39 (The Historical Association, 1993)
Rattigan, Neil, This is England (Associated University Presses, 2001) Reynolds, David, In Command of History (Penguin, 2004)
Robbins, Keith, Appeasement (Blackwell Publishers, 2004)
Roberts, Andrew, Eminent Churchillians (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994)
Roberts, Andrew, Secrets of Leadership (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003)
Roberts, Andrew, Masters and Commanders (Allen Lane, 2008)
Robertson, Derek, Invasion, 1940 (Constable, 2005)
Rose, Norman, Churchill: An Unruly Life (Simon & Schuster, 1994)
Rowse, A.L., Memories of Men and Women (Eyre Methuen, 1980)
Rubin, Gretchen, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill (Ballantine Books, 2003)
Rubinstein, David, The Myth of Rescue (Routledge, 1997)
Sandys, Celia, From Winston with Love and Kisses (Sinclair Stevenson, 1994)
Sandys, Celia, Churchill: Wanted Dead or Alive (Carroll & Graf, 1999)
Sandys, Celia, Chasing Churchill (HarperCollins, 2003)
Seldon, Anthony, Churchill’s Indian Summer
Smith, Malcolm, Britain and 1940 (Routledge, 2000)
Soames, Mary (ed), Speaking for Themselves: The Personal Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill (Doubleday, 1998)
Stafford, David, Churchill and Secret Service (Abacus, 2000)
Stafford, David, Roosevelt and Churchill (Little Brown & Company, 1999)
Stansky (ed), Churchill: A Profile, Macmillan (1973)
Stewart, Graham, Burying Caesar (Weidhorn & Nicholson, 1999)
Storr, Anthony, Churchill’s Black Dog (HarperCollins, 1989)
Taylor, A.J.P., The War Lords (Book Club Associates, 1978)
Taylor, A.J.P. (ed), Lloyd George: A Diary by Frances Stevenson (Hutchinson, 1971)
Theakston, Kevin, Winston Churchill and the British Constitution (Politico’s Publishing, 2004)
Thompson, Walter, 60 minutes with Winston Churchill (Christopher Johnson, 1961)
Weidhorn, Manfred, Sword and Pen (University of New Mexico Press, 1974)
Weisberg, Jacob, The Bush Tragedy
Weizmann, Chaim, Trial and Error (Hamish Hamilton 1949)
West, Nigel, Unreliable Witness (Grafton Books, 1986)
Wheeler-Bennett, Sir John (ed), Action this Day: Working with Churchill (Macmillan, 1968)
Williams, Susan, The People’s King (Penguin, 2003)
Woods, Frederick, Artillery of Words (Leo Cooper, 1992)