CONTENTS

Prologue

I Winter: Cracks in the Old Order

1  Montgomery

2  Mollet’s Surrender

3  The Secret Speech

4  Massive Resistance

II Spring: A Yearning for Freedom

5  The Long Walk

6  Retreat from Empire

7  The Palestro Massacre

8  Part of a Great Struggle All Over the World

III Summer: A Spirit of Rebellion

9  Bread and Freedom

10  The Petimagesfi Circle

11  Angry Young Men

12  A Coup de Main

13  The Women’s March

14  Mob Rule

IV Autumn: Revolution and Reaction

15  Collusion at Sèvres

16  Polish October

17  Uprising

18  Suez

19 Operation Whirlwind

20  Sierra Maestra

21  Freedom on Trial

Aftermath

Acknowledgements

Select Bibliography

Notes

Index