Table of Contents
Prologue: 'This little place' House of Commons 1963 1
1 'Jolly little wars' Malakand 1897 21
2 'The transatlantic type of demagogue' Blenheim 1908 43
3 'A tragic figure of failure & folly' Gallipoli 1915 65
4 'Peppery, pugnacious, proud' Cairo 1921 89
5 'Our own Mussolini' Fleet Street 1926 111
6 'The English-speaking races' New Haven 1929 127
7 'A higher-grade race' Palestine 1937 147
8 'A bitter cup' Munich 1938 171
9 'United and with clean hearts' Downing Street 1940 197
10 'Unpleasant surprises' Placentia Bay 1941 221
11 'The Liquidation of the British Empire' Mansion House 1942 247
12 'Are we beasts?' Hamburg 1943 269
13 'Our Allies will win it' Champs-Élysées 1944 293
14 'Some sort of Gestapo' Whitehall 1945 319
15 'A special relationship' Fulton 1946 341
16 'It is not history, it is my case' Windsor 1953 365
17 'Great sovereign state' British Embassy 1963 393
18 'It was a triumph' St Paul's 1965 415
19 'Great as Churchill' Luxembourg 1979 441
20 'Blair's finest hour' Fifth Avenue 2001 465
21 'Churchill was the first neocon' Bagram 2007 491
Epilogue: 'Another scale of values' Bladon 2021 511
Thanks 537
Some Churchill Books 541
Notes 549
Picture Credits 595
Index 599