Contents

Dramatis Personae

Prologue

Part One: December 1936–September 1939

1 Circumstances Without Parallel

2 A Very Full Heart

3 Enmity and Fear

Part Two: September 1939–August 1940

4 In this Grave Hour

5 Into the Unknown

6 The Decisive Struggle

7 Treachery

Photo Insert

Part Three: August 1940–December 1942

8 There Will Always Be an England

9 Ever Widening Conflict

10 It’s My Brother

Part Four: January 1943–January 1952

11 Tested as Never Before in Our History

12 Something More than Courage

13 For Valour

Epilogue

 

Notes

Select Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Index