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Information in 1940. He was Solicitor-General in 1945 and subsequently a Conservative MP, serving in Churchill’s second administration as Minister for Labour. He gained a peerage in 1957 and died in 1965.
Venetia Montagu
    Born Venetia Stanley. Overly close personal confidante – despite considerable age difference – of the Liberal Prime Minister, H.H. Asquith, during the First World War. Married his former Private Secretary, Edwin Montagu. Clementine Churchill’s first cousin.
Bernard Montgomery
    British soldier. He commanded the British Eighth Army in North Africa in 1942, masterminding its decisive victory over Rommel at the battle of El Alamein and proceeding to sweep German forces out of North Africa and then take the fight into Sicily and Italy. He was Supreme Allied Commander until disagreement with Eisenhower led to the latter assuming the role. “Monty” led ground forces on D-Day and commanded the British advance through Western Europe. He was created Field Marshal in 1944 and Viscount Montgomery of Alamein in 1946 when he succeeded Lord Alanbrooke as Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and served as Eisenhower’s deputy as Supreme Commander of NATOTO in Europe from 1951 to 1958. He was popular with his troops despite his personal asceticism and disciplinarian attitude, but his American colleagues found his manner overbearing, verging on insufferable.

Henry Morgenthau
    US Treasury Secretary, 1934–45. Before the war, he had fought with Roosevelt to try and balance the budget. In 1944 he proposed breaking Germany up into its constituent states after the war. Even more controversially, he called for it to be economically disabled and returned to a primarily agrarian society. The plan was adopted in September but Truman backed away from it and, believing his advice was being ignored, Morgenthau resigned in 1945, and published a book propagating his ideas on a Carthaginian peace.
H.V. Morton
    Henry Vollam Morton (1892–1972) was a British journalist and travel writer whose In Search of England was a best-selling book, first published in 1927 and frequently reprinted. Present at the Newfoundland meeting in the Atlantic. After the war he emigrated to South Africa.
Edmund Murray
    Detective and Churchill’s personal bodyguard from 1950 until his death in 1965. He shared Churchill’s love of painting.
Henrietta Nesbitt
    White House principal housekeeper, 1933–46. Born in 1874, her White House Diary was published in 1947. Famous for her substandard cuisine.
Harold Nicolson
    British diplomat and politician. He opposed appeasement before the war and was elected a National Labour MP in coalition with the Conservatives. During the war he served as Parliamentary Secretary and Governor of the BBC. He was knighted in 1953. A historian and biographer, his diaries provide an illuminatingnarrative of the events and personalities of his political and social circle from 1930 until 1962.
Vladimir Pavlov
    Stalin’s principal interpreter at the Big Three meetings.
John Peck
    One of Churchill’s wartime Assistant Private Secretaries. He was appointed to work for Churchill at the Admiralty and then at Downing Street. He was with Churchill at Potsdam and accompanied him on his tour of the troops in Berlin. Then he transferred to the Foreign Service and became Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland. Knighted in 1971.
Richard Pim
    Developed Churchill’s Map Room which went everywhere with the Prime Minister including to the White House in 1941 and all foreign conferences. Captain Pim was a trusted staff member throughout the Second World War
Stewart Pinfield
    Chief Petty Officer and a Churchill favourite. He was in charge of catering for the Prime Minister at Carthage, Teheran and Potsdam.
Henry Page Croft
    Brigadier-General in the First World War and Conservative MP from 1910 to 1940 whereupon he became Lord Croft. He joined Churchill in opposing granting greater sovereignty to India in 1935 and was Parliamentary