Saturday, October 29, 2005

The Memoirs of Churchill's Bodyguard

were found in the loft of a Somerset farmhouse and have been published. Walter Thompson guarded Churchill from 1921 to 1945. Go read the review, it is full of interesting little tidbits.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

That was interesting.


It is sad that Churchill wept at Yalta. I wonder what the outcome would have been if Truman had been the president Stalin negotiated with rather than Roosevelt?

And I am not so sure Bush would be that upset at finding Blair naked, but finding Cherry in the buff might be something else entirely.

MeaninglessHotAir said...

This passage reminds me of our own defeatist element. Churchill flew personally over to France to track down the French cabinet.

They tracked down Reynaud, the French prime minister, to a chateau near Tours. It was dangerous on the ground, too, for Reynaud's mistress, Madame Hélène de Portes, was furious at Churchill's desperate pleas for France to continue fighting. "She came out in a fury of hatred," Thompson recollected. "I caught her and silenced her hysterics. She had no gun, though we found a knife on her person..."

Unknown said...

meaningless hot air:

A knife in the back, how French can you get?