Ministers at War: Winston Churchill and His War Cabinet

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Notes

1 David Reynolds, In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War (London, 2005). Reynolds detailed how the memoirs were researched and written for Churchill by a team of historians (the “syndicate”), how he rejected evidence that did not suit his purpose, and manipulated the facts so as to create the heroic image by which he wished to be remembered. See also the proceedings of the conference on Churchill held at the University of Texas in 1991, Robert Blake and Wm. Roger Louis, eds., Churchill: A Major New Assessment of His Life in Peace and War (Oxford, 1993).

2 In a single, oblique comment, Schneer refers to “the totally brutal aspect [of German antisemitism] practiced later in the war” (p. 52). On Churchill's frequent involvement with the Holocaust, particularly on the question of bombing Auschwitz, see Michael J. Cohen, Churchill and the Jews (London, 2004), revised paperback edition, Chapter 8, and Afterword; see also my review essay “The Churchill–Gilbert Symbiosis,” Modern Judaism, XXVIII;2 (May, 2008).