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139 Not until March 1941: Hinsley, 1:429, 451.

140 “in wonderful spirits”: Brooke, p. 92, July 17, 1940.

141 “Radio sets were not then very”: Henry Fairlie, “The Voice of Hope,” New Republic, January 27, 1982, p. 16.

142 “Gradually we came under the spell”: Hodgson, p. 5.

143 “sent shivers (not of fear)”: Nicolson, p. 93, June 5, 1940.

144 “Mr. Churchill is the only man”: New Yorker, August 25, 1940.

145 “Like a great actor”: Berlin, p. 22.

146 “It is certainly his hour”: Headlam, p. 213.

147 “I won’t go on about the war”: IWM, Papers of Mrs. E. Elkus.

148 she had saved her wages: CAC, Eade Papers, 2/2, September 11, 1942.

149 “Romans in Rome’s quarrel”: CAC, Martin diary, p. 7.

CHAPTER FOUR: THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN

150 “Il y a beaucoup de puérilités”: Boswell, p. 876.

151 “I shall always associate that garden”: Colville, p. 505, August 24, 1944.

152 “Winston wept”: CAC, Martin diary, p. 29.

153 “The odds today have been unbelievable”: Barclay, pp. 51–52.

154 “This sounds very peculiar today”: IWM, Alec Bishop MS, 98/18/1.

155 “a farrago of operational”: Colville, p. 288, November 7, 1940.

156 “It is the sneaks and stinkers”: BNA, PREM3/220/48.

157 Jones spent twenty minutes: Jones, p. 101.

158 “Here was strength”: Ibid., p. 107.

159 “a little ruffled”: Colville, p. 211, August 7, 1940.

160 “Don’t speak to me”: Ismay, pp. 179–80.

161 “He paweth in the valley”: John Kennedy, Business of War, p. 62.

162 “I try myself by court martial”: Colville, p. 231, August 27, 1940.

163 “glaucous, vigilant, angry”: Nicolson, p. 127, November 20, 1940.

164 “There goes the bloody British Empire”: Colville, p. 340, January 24, 1941.

165 “Gimme ‘Pug’!”: Nel, p. 74.

166 “whether very great men”: Colville, p. 389, May 20, 1941.

167 “an unscrupulously rough-and-tumble fighter”: Lee, p. 77, October 10, 1940.

168 “You know, I may seem to be very fierce”: CAC, Martin diary, p. 4.

169 “Ll[oyd] G[eorge] was purely external”: Amery, p. 1034, March 26, 1945.

170 “It’s very naughty of the PM”: Moran, p. 287.

171 “the formidable ramparts”: Moran, p. 324.

172 “Darling Winston”: quoted in Soames, ed., Speaking, p. 454.

173 “to find himself subjected to a flow”: Wheeler-Bennett, Action, p. 53.

174 “He has more wit than humour”: Moran, p. 226, September 21, 1944.

175 “collapsed between the chair”: Colville, p. 319, December 15, 1940.

176 “Winston feasts on the sound”: Moran, p. 8, December 12, 1941.

177 “No one could predict”: Wheeler-Bennett, Action, p. 177.

178 “the ferment of ideas”: Ibid., p. 150.

179 “almost certain invasion”: Channon, p. 266, September 16, 1940.

180 “like all the other soldiers”: Neville Chamberlain diary, July 1, 1940.

181 “the nakedness of our defences”: Brooke, p. 90, July 2, 1940.

182 “not satisfied that … the co-operation”: BNA, CAB69/1.

183 “I feel an immense joy”: Hichens, p. 99.

184 On August 25: Elmhirst, p. 51.

185 “Thank God … the defeatist opinions”: Lee, p. 108, September 15, 1940.

186 “usual vigorous rhetorical good sense”: Dalton, p. 80.

187 “I am on top of”: Elmhirst, p. 53.

188 “That man’s effort is flagging”: Colville, p. 261, October 11, 1940.

189 “The club is burning, sir”: CAC, Martin diary, p. 32.

190 “a farmer driving pigs”: Colville, p. 217, August 10, 1941.

191 “For something like a year”: Thompson, p. 41.

192 “One can now say confidently”: Dokumenty Vneshnei Politiki, pp. 361, 387.

193 Lothian’s “wild” appeal: Nicolson, p. 104, July 22, 1940.

194 “[He] was very interesting about the City”: Lee, p. 165, December 8, 1940.

195 “Feeling in the Carlton Club”: Channon, p. 268.

196 “I think it’s a good thing that we’ve suffered”: IWM, Green Papers, 99/9/1, letter of September 4, 1940.

197 “this was the sort of war which would suit”: Colville, p. 262, October 12, 1940.

198 “We … soon adapt ourselves”: Trollope, p. 102.

199 “if one looked on all this”: Colville, p. 240, September 16, 1940.

200 “Malaya, the Australian government’s intransigence”: Eden, p. 214, January 21, 1941.

201 “We [have]