Introduction: The Last Days of Peace
Prologue: Nine Months Later—The Hour of Destiny
Chapter 1: The Fall of France: “Blood, Toil, Tears, And Sweat”
Chapter 2: Wednesday, September 4, 1940, A Cabinet Meeting in the Bunker
Chapter 3: Secret Services: Liverpool and the Western Approaches Command Center
Chapter 4: FDR’s Undeclared War
Chapter 5: Secret Mission to Singapore
Chapter 6: Fall of the “Gibraltar of the East”
Chapter 7: From Sea to Shining Sea—The Unknown Odyssey of the SS America / USS West Point
Chapter 8: Bletchley Park: The Secret War
Chapter 10: Inside the Lion’s Den
Chapter 11: Launching the Invasion: Southwick House and D-Day
Chapter 12: The Band of Brothers
Chapter 13: Air Force Pilot, Hero, and Movie Star—Jimmy Stewart and the Need to Fly
Chapter 14: The US Army Air Force in Europe
Chapter 15: “Little America”—Patriotism and Production Built the British Bases
Chapter 16: Sacrifice and Heroism: Attacking the Heart of Germany
Chapter 17: Living the History—The Bases Where It Began
Chapter 18: A Boy on the Fence
Chapter 19: The Norden Bombsight and the Myth of Strategic Bombing
Chapter 20: Trent Park Tattletales
Chapter 21: The Arsenal of Democracy
Chapter 22: Remains of the Reich: Intact Traces in Unexpected Places