title: The Churchill War Papers: At the Admirality (Vol. 1)
author: Martin Gilbert
description: Gilbert, Churchill's offical biographer, has selected more than 700 documents pertaining to the statesman's second tenure as First Lord of the Admiralty between the outbreak of WW II and his appointment as Prime Minister. As a member of Neville Chamberlain's war cabinet and later chairman of the military coordinating committee, Churchill was at the center of British war policy from the start. Included in the volume are memos to cabinet colleagues, correspondence with Chamberlain, the full texts of parliamentary speeches and radio addresses, letters from admirers, diary entries and recollections by men and women who worked with him. The documents trace the hour-by-hour progress of the May 10, 1940, crisis following the German invasion of France, Belgium and the Netherlands, and conclude with King George's formal request that Churchill, as the new Prime Minister, form a new government. A major addition to the vast Churchill literature. Illustrations. <BR>Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  # Diary of Samuel Pepys, November 1667
  
  
  ### Samuel Pepys
  
  
  
  
  
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  November 1st. Up betimes, and down to the waterside (calling and drinking a
  dram of the bottle at Michell's, but saw not Betty), and thence to White Hall
  and to Sir W. Coventry's lodging, where he and I alone a good while, where he
  gives me the full of the Duke of Albemarle's and Prince's narratives, given
  yesterday by the House, wherein they fall foul of him and Sir G. Carteret in
  something about the dividing of the fleete, and the Prince particularly
  charging the Commissioners of the Navy with negligence, he says the
  Commissioners of the Navy whereof Sir W. Coventry is one. He tells me that he
  is prepared to answer any particular most thoroughly, but 