Winston's War_ Churchill, 1940-1945 - Max Hastings [328]
624 “discreditable” and “deplorable”: Reynolds, In Command, p. 302.
625 “The cheek of the young brute”: Brooke, p. 276, July 3, 1942.
626 “May I suggest with all respect that you must convince”: BNA, AIR8/1074, Dill, JSM 300, Aide Memoire on Future Operations, July 16, 1942.
627 “Churchill, however, believes the other way”: Wallace diary, May 25, 1943, quoted in J. M. Blum, ed., The Price of Vision (Houghton Mifflin, 1973).
628 “Well, how are we going to win this war?”: Kennedy diary, LHA, July 18, 1942.
629 “We failed to see that a leader in a democracy”: Pogue, Organizer of Victory, p. 330.
CHAPTER ELEVEN: CAMELS AND THE BEAR
630 “What energy and gallantry of the old gentleman”: Harvey, p. 253, July 30, 1942.
631 “He felt the need for company, especially in Moscow”: Eden, p. 338.
632 “looked exactly as though he was in a Christmas party disguise”: Winfield, p. 69.
633 “Often had I seen the day break on the Nile”: Churchill, Second World War, 3:412.
634 “Old Miles [Lampson, British ambassador to Egypt]”: Harvey, p. 307, October 14, 1943.
635 “There seem to me to be too many people”: IWM, 4/27/1, Papers of Lt. Gen. Sir Charles Gairdner, July 8, 1942.
636 “far too many cases of units surrendering”: Richardson, p. 119.
637 “In the Middle East there was, in August”: Moorehead, p. 412.
638 “I intend to see every important unit”: Soames, ed., Speaking, p. 467, August 9, 1942.
639 The general received his dismissal ungraciously: Kennedy diary, LHA, August 23, 1942.
640 “Our NKVD resident in London”: Ocherki Istorii Rossiikoi Vneshney Razvedki, August 4, 1942.
641 “Churchill departed for the USSR”: Ibid., August 12, 1942.
642 “We know from a reliable source”: Ibid.
643 “I am downhearted and dispirited”: Moran, p. 68, August 13, 1942.
644 “You know, I was not friendly to you”: Harriman and Abel, p. 161.
645 “May God prosper this undertaking”: Moran, p. 138.
646 “Don’t be afraid”: Golovanov, p. 345.
647 “No one but the Prime Minister”: Richardson, p. 144.
648 “Churchill was decidedly upset”: Wheeler-Bennett, Action, pp. 215–16.
649 “He appealed to sentiments in Stalin”: Brooke, p. 300, August 13, 1942.
650 “Stalin told me the British Navy”: Harriman and Abel, p. 161.
651 When Harriman reported back to Roosevelt: Ibid., p. 169.
652 “The deliveries were curtailed”: Trukhanovsky, pp. 283–84.
653 “savages”: Harriman and Abel, p. 352.
654 He commissioned the ambassador’s wife: CAC, Churchill Papers, CHAR1/379/12-20.
CHAPTER TWELVE: THE TURN OF FORTUNE
655 “have changed so frequently that the subject”: Times (London), August 19, 1942.
656 “While I grumble young Russia waits”: Garfield, p. 280.
657 “When looking back at those days”: Brooke, p. 314, August 24, 1942.
658 “was the only one trying to win the war”: Ibid., p. 324, September 24, 1942.
659 “super–chief of staff … Dill agreed”: Amery, p. 830, August 25, 1942.
660 Churchill later described September and October: Moran, p. 85.
661 “It is an awful thing dealing with a man”: Amery, p. 838, September 24, 1942.
662 “a ‘bent’ man, and couldn’t be expected”: Harvey, p. 264, October 9, 1942.
663 “The dominance of Churchill emerges”: Hume Wrong diary, November 11, 1942.
664 “If we are beaten in this battle, it’s the end of Winston”: Moran, p. 91.
665 “the unnecessary battle”: Porch, p. 290.
666 “Winston was like a cat on hot bricks”: Lascelles, pp. 66–67, October 23, 1942.
667 “I am terribly anxious lest even with our superior weight”: Amery, p. 840, October 26, 1942.
668 “How minute and fragile”: Craig, p. 79.
669 “There is more jam to come”: Nicolson, p. 260, November 6, 1942.
670 “If Torch succeeds we are beginning to stop losing this war”: Brooke, p. 338, November 4, 1942.
671 “A sense of exaltation pervaded Mr. Churchill’s speech”: Times (London), November 11, 1942.
672 “The self-respect of the British Army”: Dalton, p. 519.
673 “it was nice Monty had at last mentioned”: Kennedy diary, LHA, August 1, 1942.
674 “We are winning victories!”: Hodgson, p. 331.
675 “the only occasion on which