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Index
Cover
Title
Contents
Prologue: “The Past Is a Foreign Country”
Part One • The Second Great War
1. To the Brink
2. The Failure of Diplomacy
3. “Speak for England!”
4. The Phoney War
5. Operation Pied Piper
6. Case Yellow
7. “Gad, Gentlemen, Here’s to Our Greatest Victory of the War”
8. Hitler “Missed the Bus”
9. “In the Name of God, Go”
Part Two • The Battle of France
10. “The Top of the Greasy Pole”
11. Rommel Crosses the Meuse
12. “We Are Beaten; We Have Lost the Battle”
13. “The Mortal Gravity of the Hour”
14. May 20, 1940: “A Pretty Fair Pig of a Day”
15. “The Fatal Slope”
16. “Hard and Heavy Tidings”
17. The Sharp End of the Stick
18. The Battle of Arras: “We May Be foutu”
19. “Their Zest and Delight in Shooting Germans Was Most Entertaining”
Part Three • Dunkirk
20. The Burghers of Calais
21. “Fight It Out to the Bitter End”
22. Flag Officer, Dover
23. The Home Front
24. “Presume Troops Know They Are Cutting Their Way Home to Blighty”
25. Dynamo
26. “Fight It Out, Here or Elsewhere”
27. Holding the Line
28. “The Little Ships”
29. “The Best Mug of Tea I Have Ever Had in My Life”
30. “Arm in Arm”
31. “We Are Going to Beat Them”
32. The Dunkirk Spirit
33. At Sea
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index
Also by Michael Korda
About the Author
Copyright
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