CONTENTS

	Introduction: The War Against Hitler
CHAPTER 1	Reluctantly to War
CHAPTER 2	The Fall of France
CHAPTER 3	The Battle of Britain
CHAPTER 4	The War in the Far East
CHAPTER 5	The War at Sea
CHAPTER 6	Life on a Corvette
CHAPTER 7	Bomber Command
CHAPTER 8	The Struggle to Survive
CHAPTER 9	Striking Back
CHAPTER 10	A Sortie Against a City
CHAPTER 11	Day of Destruction
CHAPTER 12	Backs to the Wall
CHAPTER 13	Making an Impact
CHAPTER 14	Test of Battle
CHAPTER 15	The Italian Campaign

Conclusion: The End of the Beginning

Endnotes

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Index

Credits

 

MAPS AND DIAGRAMS

Hong Kong, December 18–25, 1941

The North Atlantic Air Cover, May 1941–February 1942

Typical Convoy

Usual Sequence of Pilot Training in the BCATP

The North Atlantic, 1939–1945

The Dieppe Operation, August 19, 1942

Sicily, 1943

The Adriatic Sector: November 28, 1943– January 4, 1944

The Crossing of the Moro and the Battle of Ortona: December 6, 1943–January 4, 1944