ILLUSTRATIONS

Plates

1Chamberlain and Halifax meet Count Ciano. © Imperial War Museums (HU 39740).

2The Churchill Coalition Government, May 1940. © Imperial War Museums (HU 55505).

3Bren Gun Carriers of the 13/18 Hussars near Arras. © Imperial War Museums (O 733).

4Matilda Tanks of the 4th Royal Tank regiment. © Imperial War Museums (O 742).

5British Tanks cross into Belgium, 10 May 1940. © Imperial War Museums (F 4353).

6General Georges and Lord Gort inspecting the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. © Imperial War Museums (F 3959).

7British abandoned anti-aircraft guns Dunkirk. © Imperial War Museums (HU 2286).

8Officers of the Royal Ulster Rifles awaiting evacuation at Bray Dunes, May 1940. © Imperial War Museums (HU 1135).

9British troops boarding a destroyer at the Mole Dunkirk. © Imperial War Museums (HU 1153).

10Paul Reynaud in 1940. © Imperial War Museums (HU 70629).

11Battle of Oran, 12th December 1940. © Imperial War Museums (HU 62461).

12Concrete blocks fortify the approach to a bridge ‘somewhere in England’. © Imperial War Museums (HU 65868).

13Posed portrait of a soldier in Southern Command 15 October 1940. © Imperial War Museums (H 4733).

14How British ships are guarded whilst in port. © Imperial War Museums (A 951).

15Winston Churchill meets infantrymen manning a coast defence position, 31 July 1940. © Imperial War Museums (H 2628).

16Planning Conference at the Burghof, July 1940. Hitler and Admiral Eric Raeder in discussion at a map table. Also present from left to right Field Marshal Brauchitsch, General Jodl. © Imperial War Museums (HU 75542).

17Troops of the Australian 6th Division marching across Westminster Bridge, June 1940. © Imperial War Museums (HU 69089).

18German invasion barges waiting at Boulogne. © Imperial War Museums (MH 6657).

19Hawker Hurricanes of 85 Squadron. © Imperial War Museums (CH 1500).

20Spitfires of 65 Squadron taking off at Hornchurch August 1940. © Imperial War Museums (HU 54421).

21Sir Keith Park. © Imperial War Museums (CM 5631).

22Air Chief Marshall Sir Hugh Dowding. © Imperial War Museums (D 1417).

23A wrecked bus at Coventry, 14/15 November 1940. © Imperial War Museums (H 5593).

24Union Flag in the middle of a London Street. © Imperial War Museums (D 1300).

25Men of the Auxilliary Fire Service and men of the London Electric Supply Corporation at an air-raid site. © Imperial War Museums (D 1475).

26Police and Army bomb disposal officers with a defused German 1000kg ‘Luftmine’ (parachute mine) in Glasgow, 18 March 1941. © Imperial War Museums (H 8281).

27Herman Goering addresses a group of german pilots during the Battle of Britain. © Imperial War Museums (MH 13362).

28American agriculturalist and Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1891–1967), 1941. © Keystone/Getty Images.

29US lawyer and public official Harold LeClaire Ickes (1874–1952), Secretary of Interior, outside the White House at Washington DC after his first cabinet meeting, c.1940. © General Photographic Agency/Getty Images.

30Roosevelt and Churchill on the Prince of Wales, August 1941. © Imperial War Museums (A 4815).

Tables

1Size of British armed forces, 1939–40.

2German Aircraft, July 1940.

3British Fighters, July 1940.

4Serviceable Aircraft, 10 July 1940.

5Fighter Command Aircraft and Pilot Availability.

6Luftwaffe: Serviceable Aircraft, 10 August–5 October 1940.