Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Prologue: The King’s Funeral

Chapter One: The First Wartime Speech

Chapter Two: Sitzkrieg

Chapter Three: The Big Freeze

Chapter Four: The ‘stab in the back’

Chapter Five: Dunkirk

Chapter Six :The Blitz

Chapter Seven: No Longer Alone

Chapter Eight: Letter to Rupert

Chapter Nine: Cutting the Gordian Knot

Chapter Ten: The March on Rome

Chapter Eleven: D-Day

Chapter Twelve: Victory

Chapter Thirteen: Voices from the Other Side

Chapter Fourteen: The Last Words

Epilogue

Illustrations Insert

Notes

Index