1. Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War: Volume I, The Gathering Storm (London: Cassell, 1948), p. 527.
2. Colin Thornton-Kemsley to Churchill, 17 September 1939 in Martin Gilbert (ed.), The Churchill War Papers: Volume I: At the Admiralty, September 1939–May 1940 (New York: Norton, 1993), p. 51–2.
3. See David Reynolds, In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War (London: Allen Lane, 2004), pp. 5–22.
4. Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War: Volumes I–VI (London: Cassell, 1948–54).
5. Sir William Deakin in conversation with Martin Gilbert, 15 March 1975 in Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, 1945–1965: Volume 8, Never Despair (London: Heinemann, 1988), p. 315; Churchill’s speech on the death of Neville Chamberlain, Hansard, HC (series 5) vol. 365, col. 1617 (12 November 1940).