The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History (64 page)

Nancy Astor,
131
,
324
–25

Ramsay MacDonald,
136

Stafford Cripps,
136

Woodring, Harry,
222

work rate, WSC

memory recall,
186
–87

mental energy,
334
–35

reading,
186

response to Foreign Office about place names,
189
–90

stamina and drive,
188
–89,
285

summits,
256
–57

typical day,
182
–85

writing,
185
–86

working classes

minimum wage,
143

strikes,
36
,
83
,
147
–48,
151

unemployment insurance,
144

see also
strikes

Wormwood Scrubs laboratory,
174

Worsthorne, Peregrine,
160

writings, WSC

critics of,
70
–71,
80

deployment and coordination of,
81

dictating to typists,
69
,
81
,
182
–85

motivation for,
79
–80

Savrola
,
87
–88

The Scaffolding of Rhetoric
,
86
,
93

typesetting,
69
–70

volume of,
117
,
185
–86

see also
journalism, WSC

Yalta,
267

Ypres,
176

Yudenitch, General Nikolai,
203

Zionism,
308
–13

PHOTO CREDITS

Churchill at Chartwell, 1939. Photo: Topical Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

Churchill’s broadcast, 1941. Photo: CHAR 09/181B/180, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill, Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College. © Winston S. Churchill. Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown, London, on behalf of the Estate of Sir Winston Churchill and the Sir Winston Churchill Archive Trust.

Winston, aged 18. Photo: Peter Harrington Ltd.

Lord Randolph. Photo: Universal History Archive/UIG/Bridgeman Images.

Jennie Jerome. Photo: The Illustrated London News Picture Library, London/Bridgeman Images.

Winston and Jack with their mother. Photo: BRDW I, Photo 1/8, The Broadwater Collection, Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College.

Churchill and Clementine, circa 1910. Photo: adoc-photos/Corbis.

Churchill and Clemmie, 1945. Photo: PA Photos.

Illustration from
My African Journey
. Photo: LIB 37, Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College. © Winston S. Churchill. 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.

Churchill in Pretoria. Photo: BRDW I, Photo 1/18, The Broadwater Collection, Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College.

Churchill at Deauville. Photo: BRDW I, Photo 1/110, The Broadwater Collection, Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College.

Churchill and the Pyramids. Photo: BRDW I, Photo 2/83, The Broadwater Collection, Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College.

Churchill inspecting the Tank Corps, 1915. Photo: © Imperial War Museum, London (Q 34662).

Churchill with General Pershing. Photo: Corbis.

Churchill visiting Bristol, 1941. Photo: Popperfoto/Getty Images.

Churchill accepting a cigar. Photo: Keystone/Alamy.

Allied Forces headquarters, 1943. Photo: Mirrorpix.

Churchill firing a tommy gun. Photo: Getty Images.

Churchill with de Gaulle, 11 November 1944. Photo: BRDW II, Photo 8/10/22, The Broadwater Collection, Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College.

Churchill crossing the Rhine. Photo: RA/Lebrecht Music & Arts.

Churchill waves to crowds in Whitehall. Photo: Major Horton/IWM/Getty Images.

Churchill and Lloyd George. Photo: Mirrorpix.

Churchill and Lord Halifax. Photo: Getty Images.

Churchill with Stalin. Photo: Lt. Lotzof/IWM/Getty Images.

Churchill with Anthony Eden. Photo: BRDW I, Photo 1/343, The Broadwater Collection, Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College.

Churchill and Roosevelt at Shangri-La. Photo: courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park, New York.

Churchill speaking at a Thanksgiving celebration. Photo: BRDW V, Photo 3/5, The Broadwater Collection, Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College.

Churchill and President Truman. Photo: Abbie Rowe, National Park Service, courtesy Harry S. Truman Library.

Churchill at the Conservative Party Conference. Photo: Mirrorpix.

Churchill at the Hague. Photo: Kurt Hutton/Picture Post/Getty Images.

Churchill, bricklayer. Photo: Topical Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

Churchill painting in Marrakesh. Photo: M. McKeown/Daily Express/Getty Images.

Churchill in flying gear. Photo: Ullstein/TopFoto.

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Table of Contents

ALSO BY BORIS JOHNSON

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT

DEDICATION

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION: A DOG CALLED CHURCHILL

CHAPTER 1: THE OFFER FROM HITLER

CHAPTER 2: THE NON-CHURCHILL UNIVERSE

CHAPTER 3: ROGUE ELEPHANT

CHAPTER 4: THE RANDOLPH FACTOR

CHAPTER 5: NO ACT TOO DARING OR TOO NOBLE

CHAPTER 6: THE GREAT DICTATOR

CHAPTER 7: HE MOBILISED THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

CHAPTER 8: A PROPER HUMAN HEART

CHAPTER 9: MY DARLING CLEMENTINE

CHAPTER 10: THE MAKING OF JOHN BULL

CHAPTER 11: ‘THE MOST ADVANCED POLITICIAN OF THE TIME’

CHAPTER 12: NO GLORY IN SLAUGHTER

CHAPTER 13: THE SHIPS THAT WALKED

CHAPTER 14: THE 100-HORSEPOWER MENTAL ENGINE

CHAPTER 15: PLAYING ROULETTE WITH HISTORY

CHAPTER 16: AN ICY RUTHLESSNESS

CHAPTER 17: THE WOOING OF AMERICA

CHAPTER 18: THE GIANT OF THE SHRUNKEN ISLAND

CHAPTER 19: THE COLD WAR AND HOW HE WON IT

CHAPTER 20: CHURCHILL THE EUROPEAN

CHAPTER 21: MAKER OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST

CHAPTER 22: THE MEANING OF HIS NAME TODAY

CHAPTER 23: THE CHURCHILL FACTOR

PHOTOGRAPHS

TIMELINE OF EVENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

NOTES ON SOURCES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

PHOTO CREDITS