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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Illustrations
Maps
Preface
Acknowledgements to the New Edition
Part One: At the Admiralty
1 The First Week of War: ‘I cannot Doubt Our Victory’
2 ‘One Who Treads Alone’
3 ‘We have Now Found Our Leader’
4 ‘Fire and Stimulus’
5 Hitler’s Secret Weapon
6 The Widening War
7 January 1940: ‘The Tremendous Array of Negative Arguments’
8 ‘Let us to the Task’
9 Churchill’s Admiralty
10 Scandinavia: The Failure to Decide
11 Narvik: ‘All is Moving’
12 Narvik: ‘We have been Completely Outwitted’
13 Divided Counsels
14 The Face of Failure
15 ‘I Think I shall be Prime Minister Tomorrow’
16 The Tenth of May 1940
Part Two: ‘Darkest Hour’
17 Prime Minister: ‘Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat’
18 Mission to Paris
19 The Battle for France
20 The Weygand Plan
21 Dunkirk
22 ‘The British People will Fight On’
23 ‘I Expect Worse to Come….’
24 ‘The Common Cause’
25 BRIARE: ‘The Break-Up’
26 TOURS: ‘The Darkest Hour’
27 ‘Fight On!’
28 The Fall of France
29 ‘No-One is Down-Hearted Here’
30 Awaiting Invasion
31 Oran: No Weakening of Resolve
Part Three: Britain Alone
32 ‘The Great Invasion Scare’
33 ‘The Glow of Mount Sinai’
34 Royal Interlude
35 ‘A Slender Thread’
36 ‘Never in the Field of Human Conflict…’
37 ‘Strength for Battle’
38 8th to 15th September 1940: The Blitz Begins
39 Menace Endangered
40 ‘Never Maltreat the Enemy by Halves’
41 ‘Menace’: ‘The Heart Made Sick’
42 The Invasion Dilemma: ‘An Autumn Nip in the Air’
43 Amid Bombardment
44 Priorities
45 ‘How are We to Win the War?’
46 ‘The Intolerable Shackles of the Defensive’
47 Coventry, ‘Compass’, and The United States
Part Four: World War
48 December 1940: ‘More Sure of the Future…’
49 ‘A Busy Christmas…’
50 Crisis With America: ‘We do not Know What You have in Mind’
51 January 1941: The Hopkins Visit
52 The Balkans and The Battle of the Atlantic: ‘The Strain is Growing Here’
53 March 1941: ‘Very Anxious Decisions’
54 ‘Take The Rough with the Smooth’
55 Greece and Crete: ‘Hard Times, But The End will Repay’
56 May 1941: Crete—‘The Worst Days’
57 June 1941: ‘Battleaxe’ and Beyond
58 Russia: ‘We shall Do Everything to Help You…’
59 Russia and The Middle East: ‘We are at The Utmost Strain’
60 Meeting with Roosevelt
61 Russia and The Middle East: ‘Bleakest Times’
62 Support for The Soviet Union
63 The Delay of ‘Crusader’: ‘How Bloody’
64 ‘Crusader’: ‘A Prolonged, Wearing-Down Battle’
65 Japan, The Road to War
66 ‘KBO’
Endnotes
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