Churchill’s War, Volume III

The Endgame, 1943–1945

By David Irving

COMING 2026 — The long-awaited final volume of David Irving’s monumental Churchill biography. Fifty years in the making, Churchill’s War, Volume III completes the trilogy that began with The Struggle for Power (1987) and continued with Triumph in Adversity (2001).

About This Volume

Volume III covers the final years of the war, from the great conferences at Tehran, Cairo, and Quebec through to the collapse of Germany and the dawn of the atomic age. Drawing on private diaries, intelligence intercepts, and Cabinet papers that have never been published, Irving reconstructs the day-by-day reality of Churchill’s war leadership as Britain’s fortunes — military, financial, and physical — approached their breaking point.

What This Book Reveals

• Britain’s secret bankruptcy — By mid-1944, Britain’s gold reserves had fallen to $500 million.

  Churchill admitted to US Treasury Secretary Morgenthau over lunch at Downing Street that the country was broke — then broke into song.

• Churchill’s physical decline — Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King, observing Churchill across the Cabinet table in spring 1944, privately concluded he would not survive to see the Armistice.
• The Allied bombing campaign’s moral collapse — German towns of 20,000 inhabitants were designated “proper

  morale targets” on a rule-of-thumb basis, while hundreds of American pilots deliberately landed in neutral countries rather than continue flying.

• Twenty suppressed Churchill-Roosevelt exchanges — Heated correspondence about De Gaulle, deliberately omitted from both the official American and British documentary publications.
• Eisenhower’s hard line — The future President called for the “extermination” of the German General Staff and

  described the entire German population as “synthetic paranoids” — before Morgenthau adopted the position as his own.

• Intelligence reports on the Holocaust — By March 1944, postal censorship reports reaching Churchill estimated at least four million and possibly five million Jews had been killed. The response was bureaucratic silence.

The Sources

Irving’s research for this volume is deeper than for either of its predecessors. He draws simultaneously on the private diaries of Field Marshal Alanbrooke, Anthony Eden, Admiral Cunningham, John Colville, Lord Moran, Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King, and General Spaatz — cross-referencing them day by day, sometimes hour by hour, with ULTRA and MAGIC intelligence intercepts, postal censorship reports, and Cabinet papers.

No other historian has assembled these sources at this granularity for the period 1943–1945.

The Trilogy

• Volume I: The Struggle for Power (1987) — Churchill’s rise, 1936–1941
• Volume II: Triumph in Adversity (2001) — The middle years, 1941–1943
• Volume III: The Endgame (2026) — The final years, 1943–1945

Focal Point Publications has been publishing David Irving’s works since 1981.