281. Rowse in Eade 499
282. CV V/2 243; Gathering Storm 33; CV V/2 250
283. Hansard 1/26/31
284. CV V/2 252, 250–251
285. India 94; Moorehead Churchill Trial 74
286. CV V/2 280, 279; Hansard 3/12/31; CV V/2 265
287. CV V/2 291; WSC V 400, 398; Hansard 5/13/31; Daily Mail 9/7/31
288. Boothby Rebel 83; WSC V 377; Boothby Rebel 54
289. WSC V 404–405; Hansard 3/12/31
290. Morris Trumpets 297; NYT 12/14/31
291. Hansard 9/8/31; Gilbert Churchill Wilderness 39; Kenneth Young 118
292. Eden in Eade 107; Attlee in Marchant 74–75; Shinwell in Eade 124; W. H. Thompson 71
293. Gardner 2, 1
294. Daily Telegraph 11/15/40; WM / Lord Butler 11/5/80
295. Moorehead Churchill Trial 71; Longford Churchill 84; Eden in Eade 106, 107; Rhodes James Failure 205; Irrepressible 6, 117
296. Birkenhead Professor 135; CV V/2 399
297. CV V/2 18, 26–27
298. Birkenhead Professor 133; CV V/2 244, 105
299. CV V/2 258
300. CV V/2 38; Pelling 414
301. CV V/2 334
302. Payne 212; Shirer 119
303. Shirer 136
304. Frankfurter Zeitung 9/26/30
305. Shirer 149
306. Shirer 132
307. “Shall We All Commit Suicide?”; Gathering Storm 55–56
308. Eden in Eade 116; Step by Step 144; WM / Lord Butler 11/5/80; Hitler in Eade 210
309. Amid These Storms 249; WSC V 123; CV V/1 1335; WSC V 304–305
310. Rhodes James Failure 241n
311. Hansard 6/29/31; New York American 8/10/31; New York Journal 3/31/31
312. WSC V 406, 407
313. NYT 1/25/31
314. NYT 6/11/31
315. WM / Kay Halle 8/6/80; WSC V 418, 417
316. Worcester Telegram 12/13/31; “My New York Adventures”; W. H. Thompson 108
317. CV V/2 382; Birkenhead Professor 134–135
318. “My New York Adventures”; CV V/2 386
319. Moir 30, 31, 32
320. CV V/2 396, 393
321. Gilbert Churchill Wilderness 43–44
322. Moir 36, 82–83
323. WSC V 426; Gilbert Churchill Wilderness 45
324. CV V/2 406, 410; Gilbert Churchill Wilderness 46
325. Wit 83
326. Cowles Churchill 285; WSC V 431; Moran 65
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
In most books it is impossible for a scholar to single out one source which towers above all others. In this case, however, it is not only possible; it is essential. The Official Biography of Winston Spencer Churchill, which has been in preparation, under the supervision of the Chartwell Trust, for eighteen years, is the definitive work on his life. Indeed, some documents, including those in the Royal Archives, Windsor Castle, are closed to other researchers until the official biography is complete.
Thus far the work—which has reached the year 1939—comprises eighteen volumes totaling 20,827 pages. And World War II is yet to come. At this writing, Martin Gilbert, the official biographer, has just completed a manuscript covering the years 1939 to 1941. It is, he says, as long as this volume of mine. In its entirety, the official work is grouped into five biographical volumes and thirteen companion volumes. The biographical works have been issued under five major headings:
Volume I: Youth, 1874–1900, by Randolph S. Churchill. Boston, 1966.
Volume II: Young Statesman, 1901–1914, by Randolph S. Churchill. Boston, 1967.
Volume III: The Challenge of War, 1914–1916, by Martin Gilbert. Boston, 1971.
Volume IV: The Stricken World, 1916–1922, by Martin Gilbert. Boston, 1975.
Volume V: The Prophet of Truth, 1922–1939, by Martin Gilbert. Boston, 1977.
The companion volumes, 16,359 pages, are similarly grouped and consist of reproduced documents:
Companion Volume I, Part 1, 1874–1896, edited by Randolph S. Churchill. Boston, 1967.
Companion Volume I, Part 2, 1896–1900, edited by Randolph S. Churchill. Boston, 1967.
Companion Volume II, Part 1, 1901–1907, edited by Randolph S. Churchill. Boston, 1969.
Companion Volume II, Part 2, 1907–1911, edited by Randolph S. Churchill. Boston, 1969.
Companion Volume II, Part 3, 1911–1914, edited by Randolph S. Churchill. Boston, 1969.
Companion Volume III, Part 1, July 1914–April 1915, edited by Martin Gilbert. Boston, 1973.
Companion Volume III, Part 2, May 1915–December 1916, edited by Martin Gilbert. Boston, 1973.
Companion Volume IV, Part 1, January 1917–June 1919, edited by Martin Gilbert. Boston, 1978.
Companion Volume IV, Part 2, July 1919–March 1921, edited by Martin Gilbert. Boston, 1978.
Companion Volume IV, Part 3, April 1921–November 1922, edited by Martin Gilbert. Boston, 1978.
Companion Volume V, Part 1, The Exchequer Years, 1922–1929, edited by Martin Gilbert. Boston, 1981.
Companion Volume V, Part 2, The Wilderness Years, 1929–1935, edited by Martin Gilbert. Boston, 1981.
Companion Volume V, Part 3, 1936–1939, edited by Martin Gilbert. Forthcoming.
The liveliest biographer of Winston Churchill is Winston Churchill. He led a fascinating life, he knew it, and he exploited it. Like most journalists, he told his choicest stories over and over. He wrote no fewer than nine versions of his dramatic escape from the Boer prisoner-of-war camp in 1899. One, “How I Escaped from the Boers,” was published in the Johannesburg Standard and Diggers’ News on December 23, 1899. Three others appeared in the Morning Post, on December 27 and 28, 1899, and January 24, 1900. Later came “How I Escaped from Pretoria” (War Pictures, March 3, 1900), “My Escape from the Boers” (Strand, December 1923 and January 1924), “My Escape from Pretoria” (News of the World, February 10, 1935), “How I Escaped” (Sunday Chronicle, January 2, 1938), and the version in chapters 21 and 22 of his book A Roving Commission. This last account has appeared in several anthologies, and Churchill lectured on this feat innumerable times. There are no significant discrepancies among the many versions. He told this tale, and others, over and over simply because he had a family—and an expensive life-style—to support.
I. By Winston Spencer Churchill
1. BOOKS
Amid These Storms: Thoughts and Adventures. New York, 1932. (Published in the United Kingdom as Thoughts and Adventures; London, 1932.)
The Gathering Storm. Vol. I of The Second World War. Boston, 1948.
Great Contemporaries. London, 1937.
Ian Hamilton’s March. London, New York, and Bombay, 1900.
Immortal Jester: A Treasury of the Great Good Humor of Sir Winston Churchill. Compiled by Lester Frewen. London, 1973.
India. Speeches and introduction. London, 1931.
Irish Home Rule: A Speech… at Belfast on February 8th, 1912. London, 1912.
Irrepressible Churchill: A Treasury of Winston Churchill’s Wit. Selected and compiled with historical commentary by Kay Halle. New York, 1966.
Liberalism and the Social Problem. London, 1909.
London to Ladysmith: Via Pretoria. London, New York, and Bombay, 1900.
Lord Randolph Churchill. 2 vols. London and New York, 1906.
Maxims and Reflections. Selected by Colin Coote and Denzil Batchelor. London, 1947.
My African Journey. London, 1908.
On Naval Armaments: From a Speech on the Naval Estimate in the House of Commons, March 26, 1913. London, 1913.
Painting as a Pastime. London, 1948.
The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan. 2 vols. London, New York, and Bombay, 1899.
A Roving Commission: My Early Life. New York, 1930. (Published in the United Kingdom as My Early Life; London, 1930.)
Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania. Reprinted New York, 1956.
Step by Step: 1936–1939. Articles
. London, 1939.
The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War. London, New York, and Bombay, 1898.
The Wit of Sir Winston. Edited by Adam Sykes and Icia Sproat. London, 1965.
The World Crisis, Vol. I (1911–1914). New York, 1923.
The World Crisis, Vol. II (1915). New York, 1923.
The World Crisis, Vol. III (1916–1918, part I). New York, 1927.
The World Crisis, Vol. IV (1916–1918, part 2). New York, 1927.
The World Crisis: The Aftermath (1918–1928). New York, 1929.
The World Crisis, Vol. V: The Eastern Front. New York, 1931.
Young Winston’s Wars: The Original Despatches of Winston S. Churchill, War Correspondent, 1897–1900. Edited by Frederick Woods. New York, 1972.
2. ARTICLES
“The Abuse of the ‘Dole.’ ” Daily Telegraph, March 26 and 27, 1930.
“The American Mind and Ours.” Strand, August 1931.
“Antwerp: The Story of Its Siege and Fall.” Sunday Pictorial, November 9, 1916.
“Arthur James Balfour.” Strand, April 1931.
“Asquith.” News of the World, February 16, 1936.
“Astor and G. Bernard Shaw.” Sunday Pictorial, August 16, 1931.
“Back to the Spartan Life in Our Public Schools.” Daily Mail, December 1, 1931.
“Back to the Wild Tumult of Peace.” News of the World, March 24, 1935.
“Balfour.” News of the World, March 22, 1936.
“Battle of Sidney Street.” Pall Mall, February 1924.
“Birkenhead.” News of the World, March 1, 1936.
“The Blunder That Beat Germany.” Sunday Chronicle, January 9, 1938.
The Boer War: sixty-six telegrams and thirty-five letters to the Morning Post, dated November 16, 1899, to July 25, 1900.
“B.-P.” Sunday Pictorial, August 30, 1931.
“British Cavalry.” Anglo-Saxon Review, March 1901.
“The British Officer.” Pall Mall Magazine, January 1901.
“Cartoons and Cartoonists.” Strand, June 1931.
“The Case for Singapore.” Sunday Chronicle, March 30, 1924.
“Chamberlain.” News of the World, March 29, 1936.
“Chamberlain.” Pall Mall, February 1930.
“Changing the Political Camp.” News of the World, February 24, 1935.
“Charge!” Sunday Chronicle, December 19, 1937.
“Charge of the Twenty-first Lancers.” News of the World, January 27, 1935.
“Clemenceau.” News of the World, March 15, 1936.
“Clemenceau: The Man and the Tiger.” Strand, December 1930.
“Consistency in Politics.” Pall Mall, July 1927.
“Could Labour Govern the Country?” Illustrated Sunday Herald, November 16, 1919.
“Crucial Events in the Great War.” Thirteen essays in the Daily Telegraph, May 5 to July 15, 1930.
The Cuban Insurrection: five dispatches to the Daily Graphic published in December 1895 and January 1896, and three essays in the Saturday Review, dated February 15, March 7, and August 29, 1896.
“Curzon.” News of the World, March 8, 1936.
“The Dangers Ahead in Europe.” Weekly Dispatch, June 15, 1924.
“The Dardanelles Held the Key to Peace.” News of the World, March 17, 1935.
“A Day with Clemenceau.” Strand, December 1930.
“The Decisive Factor in the Allied Victory.” News of the World, June 13, 1937.
“A Difference with Kitchener.” Cosmopolitan, November 1924.
“Douglas Haig.” Pall Mall, November 1928.
“The Dover Barrage.” Daily Telegraph, November 30, 1931.
“Dreadnoughts at Bay.” Collier’s July 5, 1930.
“The Dream.” Sunday Telegraph, January 31, 1966.
“The Election.” Daily Chronicle, November 6, 1922.
“Election Memories.” Strand, September 1931.
“The Ethics of Foreign Policy.” United Services Magazine, August 1898.
“False Security.” Sunday Chronicle, February 17, 1924.
“Fashoda Incident.” North American Review, December 1898.
“Fifty Years Hence.” Strand, December 1931.
“Fisher.” News of the World, January 19, 1936.
“Foch the Indomitable.” Pall Mall, July 1929.
“Four Crises in the Great War.” Sunday Pictorial, July 9, July 16, July 23, and July 30, 1916.
“French.” News of the World, February 2, 1936.
“Frontier Days in India.” News of the World, January 20, 1935.
“The Future of Mr Lloyd George.” Weekly Dispatch, June 29, 1924.
“The Gentle Art of Losing.” The Times, April 4, 1930.
“George Curzon.” Pall Mall, January 1929.
“The German Splendour.” Cosmopolitan, August 1924.
“Government of the / by the / for the Dole-Drawers.” Daily Mail, June 18, 1931.
“Great Events.” Articles in News of the World, May 30 to July 4, 1937, and October 10 to November 21, 1937.
“Great Men of the Times.” Twelve sketches in News of the World, January 12 to April 5, 1936.
“The Great War by Land and Sea.” Six installments in London Magazine, October 1916 to March 1917.
“Haig.” News of the World, February 9, 1936.
“Haig… the Man They Trusted.” Daily Mail, October 3, 1935.
“A Hand-to-Hand Fight with Desert Fanatics.” Cosmopolitan, December 1924.
“Have We Done with Germany?” Illustrated Sunday Herald, November 23, 1919.
“Herbert Henry Asquith.” Pall Mall, August 1928.
“Hindenburg in War and Peace.” Daily Mail, August 2, 1934.
“Hobbies.” Pall Mall, December 1925.
“Homage to Kipling.” John O’London’s, November 26, 1937.
“The House of Commons and Its Business.” World, July 13, 1909.
“How Antwerp Saved the Channel Ports.” Sunday Pictorial, November 26, 1916.
“How I Escaped.” Sunday Chronicle, January 2, 1938.
“How I Escaped from Pretoria.” War Pictures, March 3, 1900.
“How I Escaped from the Boers.” Standard and Diggers’ News (Johannesburg), December 23, 1899.
“How I Placated Lord Roberts.” Pall Mall, October 1927.
“How the Grand Fleet Went to War.” News of the World, March 10, 1935.
“How We Made the Irish Treaty.” Pictorial Weekly, January 20, 1934.
“If I Were a Boer, I Hope I Should Be Fighting in the Field.” Westminster Gazette, March 18, 1901.
“In an Indian Valley.” Pall Mall, September 1927.
“India: The Coming Clash.” Daily Mail, October 14, 1933.
“India and Dominion Status.” The Times, November 25, 1931.
“The India Bill.” The Times, March 5, 1935.
“India in 1917.” The Times, February 14, 1935.
“India Insistent.” Daily Mail, September 7, 1931.
“The Influenza.” A poem written in 1890 and published for the first time in the Harrovian of December 10, 1940.
“In the Air.” Pall Mall, June 1924.
“The Irish Treaty.” Pall Mall, January 1924.
“Is Parliament Played Out?” Illustrated Sunday Herald, May 30, 1920.
“I Was a Prisoner of War.” Sunday Chronicle, December 26, 1937.
“I Was Conscious Through It All.” Daily Mail, January 5, 1932.
“Jellicoe.” Sunday Chronicle, October 24, 1937.
“Joseph Chamberlain.” Daily Mail, December 1, 1932.
“Kitchener.” News of the World, January 12, 1936.
“Kitchener.” Sunday Chronicle, October 31, 1937.
“Lawrence of Arabia’s Name Will Live!” News of the World, May 26, 1935.
Letter to the Editor concerning the School Display and Gymnasium, signed “Junius Junior.” Harrovian, March 17, 1892.
“Liberalism.” English Life, January 1924.
/> “Lloyd George.” News of the World, February 16, 1936.
“Lloyd George.” Sunday Pictorial, September 6, 1931.
“Lloyd George’s Memoirs.” Daily Mail, September 7, 1933.
“Lord Birkenhead: The Man and His Career.” Weekly Dispatch, August 31, 1924.
“Lord Kitchener.” The Times, October 16, 1923.
“Lord Oxford as I Knew Him.” Daily Mail, October 18, 1932.
“Lord Roberts.” World’s Work, June 1901; reprinted in Windsor Magazine, July 1901.
“Lord Rosebery.” Pall Mall, October 1929.
“Lord Ypres.” Pall Mall, January 1930.
“Ludendorff at Tannenberg.” Collier’s, May 17, 1930.
“Ludendorff’s ‘All or Nothing.’ ” Daily Telegraph, July 14, 1930.
“Ludendorff’s Last Card.” Collier’s, July 12, 1930.
“Man Overboard.” A short story. Harmsworth Magazine, January 1899.
“Man Power Problem: Wanted—a Policy.” Sunday Pictorial, April 8, 1917.
“The Man Who Saved Paris.” Collier’s, May 31, 1930.
“Mass Effects in Modern Life.” Strand, May 1931.
“The Meaning of Verdun.” Collier’s, November 18, 1916.
“Memoirs of the House of Commons.” Pearson’s Magazine, December 1923–January 1924.
“Men Who Have Influenced or Impressed Me.” Strand, February 1931.
“Mesopotamia and the New Government.” Empire Review, July 1923.
“Methods of Barbarism.” The Times, June 28, 1901.
“Mobilization in 1914.” The Times, April 9, 1936.
“Monarchy vs. Autocracy.” Illustrated Sunday Herald, February 1, 1920.
“Moses.” Sunday Chronicle, November 11, 1931.
“Mr Asquith and Lord Kitchener.” The Times, November 1, 1923.
“Mr H. G. Wells and the British Empire.” Empire Review, November 1923.
“Mr Snowden’s Horoscope.” Weekly Dispatch, August 10, 1924.
“Mr Wells and Bolshevism: A Reply.” Sunday Express, December 5, 1920.
“The Murder Campaign in Ireland.” Illustrated Sunday Herald, June 13, 1920.
“My African Journey.” Strand, March to November 1908.
“Mr Budget Forecast.” Sunday Pictorial, April 19, 1931.
“My Dramatic Days with the Kaiser.” Cosmopolitan, August 1924.
“My Entry into Politics.” News of the World, February 17, 1935.
“My Escape from Pretoria.” News of the World, February 10, 1935.