Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Maonero aChurchill akanga ari okuti Coward aizoita zvakawanda nokuda kwebasa rehondo kupfurikidza nokuvaraidza mauto neimba yapamberi kupfuura nebasa rouchenjeri: "Endai uye muimbire kwavari apo pfuti dziri kupfura <unk> iro ibasa renyu!" Coward, kunyange zvazvo akaodzwa mwoyo, akatevera iri zano. Akafamba, akaita uye akaimba asinganeti muEurope, Africa, Asia neAmerica. Akanyora uye akarekodha nziyo dzakakurumbira dzine musoro wehondo, kusanganisira "London Pride" uye "Musatiite Mhuka kuvaGermany". Musha wake muLondon wakaparadzwa nemabhomba eGermany muna 1941, uye akagara kwenguva pfupi paSavoy Hotel. Mukati meimwe nhamo yemhepo munharaunda yakapoteredza Savoy akabatana naCarroll Gibbons naJudy Campbell mune cabaret yekukurumidza kuti vanyengedze vaenzi vakatapwa kubva pakutya kwavo. Chimwe chezvirongwa zvehondo zvaCoward, semunyori, nyeredzi, munyori uye mubatsiri-mutungamiriri (pamwe naDavid Lean), yaive mutambo wemafirimu wemauto "Mune iyo yatinoshandira". Firimu racho raizivikanwa kumativi ose eAtlantic, uye akapiwa chitupa chokuremekedza pa 1943 Academy Awards
mhemberero. Coward akaridza kaputeni wengarava, achivakira hunhu hwake kushamwari yake Ishe Louis Mountbatten. Lean akapfuurira kutungamirira uye kugadziridza mafirimu emitambo yakawanda yeCoward.