The 2007 book is a reprint of the 1958 book. I muddied the waters by saying 
the "War Rooms" are not in Elizabeth Layton Nel's text, by searching for 
"War Rooms" plural. She does indeed mention them as Jon says, first on page 
26 of the first edition:

*For below [the Annexe] there stretched two whole floors of "safety" 
accommodation. Beneath a vast concrete block which had been set in at 
ground level there was first of all General Headquarters, known as the 
Cabinet War Room or C.W.R., where the Prime Minister, all Cabinet Ministers 
and the Chiefs of Staff had rooms as well as the Service Planning Staffs. 
Here some of the most brilliant British officers spent their days breathing 
conditioned air and working by daylight lamps, to emerge white-faced and 
blinking for a few hours in the evening. The C.W.R. was reached by a spiral 
staircase and was supposed to be safe from bombing attack. Below it, on a 
still lower level, had been constructed a whole floor of tiny bedrooms for 
the lesser lights, each with its allocated owner, and it was here that 
those on late duty would retire when bedtime came.*

*Mr. Churchill could hardly ever be persuaded to descend to the C.W.R. 
merely for "sheltering" purposes. He often held Cabinet meetings there in 
the evenings, after which he would return to the ground-level flat to 
finish off the evening in his study. I never knew him use his bedroom 
belowstairs - thick steel shutters guarded the window of his bedroom in the 
flat, and these he felt sufficient protection.*

On Monday, December 23, 2019 at 12:07:38 PM UTC-8, Jon wrote:
>
> Interesting.
> Elizabeth Layton eventually wrote a memoir about her experience, published 
> in 2007 as *Winston Churchill by his Personal Secretary *by Elizabeth Nel 
> (her postwar married name).  When she first reported to No. 10 Downing 
> Street on May 5, 1941,* she was shown around the premises where she'd be 
> working (as the then-third of his Personal Secretaries), including the 
> Cabinet War Room (she uses the singular, and usually calls it the C.W.R.), 
> but relates it mostly in the passive case.  
>

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