Finest Hour 173, Summer 2016 Page 39 Paul Bew, Churchill and Ireland, Oxford University  Press, 208 pages, £1699/ $2995 ISBN 978–0198755210 Review by Robert McNamara Robert McNamara teaches History at Ulster University and is the editor...

Finest Hour 173, Summer 2016 Page 42 Adrian Stewart, February 1942: Britain’s Darkest Days, Pen & Sword Military, 2015, 198 pages, £1999 ISBN 978–1473821156 Review by Mark Klobas Mark Klobas teaches history at Scottsdale Community...

Finest Hour 173, Summer 2016 Page 46 Nial Barr, Eisenhower’s Armies: The American-British Alliance during World War II, Pegasus Books, 2015, 544 pages, $35 ISBN: 978–1605988160 Review by Nigel Hamilton Nigel Hamilton is senior fellow...

Finest Hour 174, Autumn 2016 Page 48 Colin Holmes, Searching for Lord Haw-Haw: The Political Lives of William Joyce, Routledge, 2016, 494 pages, $2495/£1498 ISBN 978-1138888869 Review by Mark Klobas Mark Klobas teaches history at...

Finest Hour 174, Autumn 2016 Page 49 Susan Elia MacNeal, The Prime Minister’s Secret Agent, Bantam, 2014, 306 pages, $16 ISBN 978–0345536747 Review by Michael McMenamin Portrayal of Churchill **1/2 Worth Reading ***...

Finest Hour 175, Winter 2017 Page 47 Daniel Todman, Britain’s War: Into Battle, 1937–1941, Allen Lane, 2016, 848 pages, £30 ISBN 978–0713999273 Review by Mark Klobas Mark Klobas teaches history at Scottsdale Community College...

We will mete out to the Germans the measure and more than the measure that they have meted out to us. We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst and we will do our best.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Put your confidence in us – give us your faith and your blessing and under Providence all will be well. We shall not fail or falter, we shall not weaken or tire – neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long drawn trails of vigilance or exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

The meeting was therefore symbolic … It symbolizes … the deep underlying unities which stir and at decisive moments rule the English-speaking peoples throughout the world … the marshalling of the good forces of the world against the evil forces which are now so formidable and triumphant …