It was a Saturday afternoon and the Pentagon was virtually deserted when the top commanders of all the services crowded into Secretary of War Patterson's spacious office. They were there to hear Winston Churchill, who had come to renew his ties with the men he had known well during the war, to meet those he had known only from the communiques.
Leaning back against the Secretary's big desk, with shoulders hunched, Sandhurst-educated Winston Churchill talked easily, as one old soldier to his fellows. From the lines of a veteran who had served with his ancestor.* John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough,...
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