“Churchill owed more, and admitted that he owed more [to Ismay] than to anybody else, military or civilian, in the whole of the war.”

— Hastings Ismay

Colville, John. Winston Churchill and His Inner Circle. New York: Wyndham Books, 1981. p. 161
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