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PICTURE CREDITS
p2. Downing Street dining room
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p6. Digesting the India bill
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p8. A reinforced dining room fit for the king
Courtesy of Downing Street
p10. Strategy al fresco
Courtesy of the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum.
p18. The Pinafore Room: home of the Other Club
© English Heritage NMR
p23. Randolph’s 21st birthday, 1932
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p26. Churchill’s favourite stage: the dining room at Chartwell
© NTPL/Andreas von Einsiedel
p26. Dining at Chartwell, 1928
© NTPL
p29. Chartwell garden party and Mrs. Churchill’s prudence
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p31. Best to look over the bills
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p33. Churchill and British generals, Alan Brooke, Montgomery and Ismay, plus Randolph, picnic in the desert, Tripoli, 1943
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p33. Churchill and American generals Eisenhower and Patton, picnic lunch in northwestern Europe
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p34. Tea with RAF pilots, September 1941
Courtesy of the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum.
p34. Picnic on the hustings, Churchill’s daughter, Sarah, pouring
tea, 1945
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p35. Picnic at Marrakesh 1944
Estate of John Colville
p42. The Prime Minister’s railway dining car
© NMSI/Science Museum
p46. President’s dinner for the Prime Minister aboard the Augusta, August 1941; and guests
Courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, Hyde Park.
p.50 Churchill reciprocates, 10 August 1941
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/.Crown copyright.
p52. Churchill and the Presidential gift boxes for every British seaman
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p54. Celebrating the Alliance
Courtesy of Library of Congress
p55. Churchill and Soviet Ambassador Maisky’s tête-à-tête: lunch at the Soviet embassy, London, August 1941
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p57. Chequers dining room
Mark Fiennes photograph
p67. BOAC menu, on flight to Washington, June 1954
Courtesy of Mullock’s Auctioneers, Shropshire
p68. The Churchills and Tango at Chartwell, 1933
© NT PL/Derrick E. Witty
p87. New Allies. With Stalin, Moscow, 14 August 1942
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p92. Menu for the Prime Minsiter, Turkey, January 1943 Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown, London on behalf of the Broadwater Collection.
p93. Dining with Turkish President Inonu in his private railway carriage, January 1943
© British Pathé
p100. Ready for the dinner guests at the British legation
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p101. Make a wish, 69th birthday
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p102. The Big Three, dining together for the first time, 1943
© Mirrorpix
p108. After dinner tête-à-tête
© Bettmann/CO RBI
p112. Vorontsov Palace: Churchill’s villa
Courtesy of the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum.
p115. Livadia Palace: Roosevelt’s villa and meeting room
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p120. Dinner menu at Yalta, the Prime Minister as host
Courtesy of the estate of Charles E. Bohlen.
p121. The Big Three at dinner
© Bettmann/CO RBIS
p122. Stalin carves up the Nazi bird, Allies looking on
p128. Welcome to my villa: Churchill greets Truman and Stalin
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p131. The Big Three and supporting staffs, at the Cecilienhof
© Bettmann/CO RBIS
p138. Churchill dinner, Potsdam. Menu, music, wines, seating chart
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p147. En route to Fulton with President Truman
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p150. Churchill’s 79th birthday cake
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p153. The Big Two and the French Premier, Laniel Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
p154. Menu for the Bermudians’ dinner honouring the British Delegation
©Bermuda Archives
p155. Churchill alone, Bermuda
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p160. Churchill at dinner, cartoon by Vicky
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p162. Bill of fare, Paris Ritz 1914
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p171. Churchill scoops caviar, lunch at Yalta
Courtesy of the estate of Charles E. Bohlen.
p183. Pop!
©Daily Mail/Solo Syndication. John Musgrave-Wood, Daily Mail, 30 November 1957, courtesy of the British Cartoon Archive, University of Kent, www.cartoons.ac.uk
p185. A victory toast with the Soviet Ambassador Gusev, May 1945
Courtesy of the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum.
pp186 &187. Odette Pol Roger with Churchill & Commemorative bottle
© Champagne Pol Roger
p189. Cornucopia at 86
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p191. A weak whisky and soda at Mansion House
Courtesy of the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum.
p193. Victory symbol
©Topham Picturepoint/TopFoto.co.uk
p196. Don’t want to spoil the boy
Courtesy of Fox Tobacconists, St James’s, London. Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown, London on behalf of the Estate of Sir Winston Churchill, and the Master, Fellows and Scholars of Churchill College, Cambridge. Copyright © Winston S. Churchill.
p197. Firing up
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p198. Merci for the light, at Cherbourg, 1944 © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS
p199. Some of my favourite things from Fox Cigar Shop
Courtesy of Fox Tobacconists, St James’s, London.
p208. Some more please!
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p210. Labels for game from the King
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p213. “Are you getting enough to eat?”
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P219. Between premierships, South of France, 1948
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Like all students of Churchill, I am deeply indebted to the scholarship of Sir Martin Gilbert. Sir Martin’s plate was already overflowing, so I am doubly grateful to him for the patience with which he offered suggestions to a fledgling author of whom many academics as distinguished as Sir Martin, if such there be, would have taken little notice.
Lady Williams, née Jane Portal, who worked with Churchill from 1949 to 1955, has shared some of her memories of the Prime Minister. Her fr
iendship has become one of my most treasured results of writing this book. Andrew Roberts endorsed the idea for this book from the beginning and has been a staunch friend throughout the research and writing, providing encouragement that only a star historian can provide a neophyte writer. And he introduced me to my agent, Georgina Capel.
Without the encouragement and on-going guidance of Gertrude Himmelfarb and Stuart Proffitt I would not have undertaken this project. Without the help of many people I would not have been able to complete it. Alan Packwood and the staff at the Churchill Archives, to whom Churchill scholars across the world owe so much, were obliging in the extreme. Phil Reed, Director of the Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms during most of the writing of this book, made many useful suggestions and provided wonderfully wide-ranging conversations. Hugh Lunghi, one of Churchill’s Russian-language interpreters during the war, shared many of his recollections with me in his most charming manner.
Graham Stewart contributed important suggestions for improving the text. Roger Moorhouse, an historian in his own right, was a most creative seeker of images, and helped with much-needed moral support and humour. Ray Wells of The Sunday Times paved the way for original photography while Francesco Guidicini shot the cigar photos at the Fox Churchill Museum, which kindly granted access to its hoard of Churchill memorabilia. Leon Aron, a Russian Scholar, was encouraging and most helpful with his Russian contacts and his translation of the Russian menus.
Andrew Porter of the Telegraph provided an important document at a key moment. David Bell was generous with his introductions in Bermuda. Neil Crompton, then in the British Embassy in Washington, put me in touch with Sir Geoffrey Adams. Sir Geoffrey, then the British Ambassador in Teheran, arranged access to the Embassy’s treasure trove of photographs of the Teheran Conference and Lady Adams was kind enough to photograph for me the British Embassy dining room as it is today.
Sue Sutton’s research skills uncovered many treasures in the Churchill Archives. Leyre Gonzalez deployed her considerable organisational skills to keep the daily flow of information in accessible order, and Rebecca Driscoll helped to solve the inevitable headaches that computers willfully choose to create. Shan Vahidy calmly stepped in at a critical moment to foil a computer attack on the endnotes. The Hudson Institute provided important support.
They have all done their best but I am of course responsible for any remaining errors.