Foreword
Prologue
1 ‘You must not speak of us as cousins’
2 ‘We will get nothing from the Americans but words’
3 ‘In the long history of the world this is a thing to do now’
4 ‘Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars’
5 ‘The Prime Minister of Great Britain has nothing to hide from the President of the United States’
6 ‘The only way in which we could possibly lose this war’
7 ‘My God! Now they’ve started shooting’
8 ‘This is much the greatest thing we have ever attempted’
9 ‘Even splendid victories and widening opportunities do not bring us together on strategy’
10 ‘Ike and I were poles apart when it came to the conduct of the war’
11 ‘The greatest American friend we have ever known’
12 ‘Allies of a kind’
13 ‘I must always know what is in the documents I sign’
14 ‘The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate’
15 ‘The Jews are a religion, not a nation or a race’
16 ‘I think it improbable that the Americans would become involved’
17 ‘All the passion of a woodchuck chewing a carrot’
18 ‘The timely use of atomic weapons should be considered’
19 ‘What could be more earthy than coal or steel?’
20 ‘Never had so few lost so much so stupidly and so fast’
21 ‘The most powerful of the anti-colonial powers’
22 ‘United States policy is exaggeratedly moral, at least where non-American interests are concerned’
23 ‘The U.S. are being very difficult’
24 ‘Nothing justifies double-crossing us’
25 ‘We can furnish a lot of fig leaves’
26 ‘If anything goes wrong you may be sure that Mr Dulles will place the blame elsewhere’
27 ‘They have complete confidence in me’
28 ‘It is going to be a cold winter’
29 ‘Thank God they’ve turned back, just before the Prime Minister gave way’
30 ‘The lady has already been violated in public’
31 ‘This frightful tangle of fear and suspicion’
32 ‘I don’t think we are in for a very happy four days’
33 ‘We do not suffer in the world from such an excess of friends’
34 ‘A couple who have been told by everyone that they should be in love’
35 ‘He wanted to establish his own special relationship’
36 ‘Your problems will be our problems and when you look for friends, we will be there’
37 ‘That little ice-cold bunch of land down there’
38 ‘Doing the work of the free world’
39 ‘The focus of evil in the modern world’
40 ‘The objective is to have a world without war’
41 ‘No time to go wobbly’
42 ‘All necessary means’
43 ‘The whole of the Balkans are not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier’
44 The British were furious’
45 ‘She could not see any policy differences between them’
46 ‘The closest relationship I would have with any foreign leader’
47 ‘We were fortunate to have them on our side’
48 ‘But for 9/11,Iraq would not have happened’
49 ‘I hope that’s not the last time we see them’
50 ’It was after all the casus belli’
51 ‘This isn’t working’
52 ‘We had no idea what we were getting into’
53 ‘When we saved the world’
54 Britain ‘may not want to play as central a role in world affairs’
55 The Special Relationship
56 Britain, the United States and Europe
57 Special any more?
Notes and References
Bibliography
Index
