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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements to the New Edition
Acknowledgements
Part One: Return to Conservatism 1922–1924
1 Out of Parliament: ‘Getting Much Better in Myself’
2 1924: Towards the Conservatives
3 Return to Parliament: ‘The Jolliest Bit of News for Months’
Part Two: Chancellor of the Exchequer 1924–1929
4 A Reforming Chancellor: ‘Great Issues in the Social Sphere’
5 Return to the Gold Standard
6 Preparing the 1925 Budget: ‘Keeping His Nose to the Grindstone’
7 Churchill’s First Budget: ‘The Appeasement of Class Bitterness’
8 1925: ‘Alarm Bells Ringing’
9 The General Strike and the British Gazette
10 ‘Tonight Surrender: Tomorrow Magnanimity’
11 The Coal Strike: The Search for a Settlement
12 ‘The Smiling Chancellor’
13 De-Rating: ‘A Plan for Prosperity’ 1927–1929
14 The 1928 Budget: ‘Everyone But You Is Frightened’
15 Towards the Fifth Budget: ‘Vy Independent of Them All’
16 1929: The Last Year of the Baldwin Government
Part Three: Warnings and Forebodings 1929–1935
17 1929: Travels in the New World
18 1929–1930: A Growing Isolation
19 India and Free Trade, 1930–1931: ‘A Real Parting of the Ways’
20 India 1931: ‘The Conservative Party Is With Me’
21 The Formation of the Coalition: Churchill’s Final Isolation
22 Visit to the United States: A Serious Accident
23 1932: ‘Not Exhibiting This Year’
24 Germany 1932–1933: ‘Tell the Truth to the British People’
25 India 1933: A Party Divided
26 Germany 1933: ‘There Is No Time to Lose’
27 1933–1934: Authorship, India and Rearmament
28 India 1934: The Committee of Privileges
29 1934: Armaments, ‘Sounding a Warning’
30 India 1934–1935: ‘A Very Stern Fight Before Us’
31 India 1935: The Final Challenge
Part Four: ‘The Prophet of Truth’ 1935–1939
32 1935: German Air Strength: ‘We Can Never Catch Up’
33 The Need for War Preparations: ‘Every Day Counts’
34 The 1935 Election: No Place for Churchill
35 Winter 1935–1936: Hoping for a Cabinet Post
36 Turning to Churchill
37 Defence Preparations: ‘A Remorseless Pressure’
38 July 1936: The Defence Deputation
39 Foreign Affairs: Towards France or Germany?
40 ‘The Illusion of Security’
41 The Abdication
42 January–June 1937: ‘Everything Is Very Black’
43 ‘Information in the Public Interest’
44 Eden’s Resignation: ‘The Vision of Death’
45 The German Annexation of Austria: ‘Surrendering the Future’
46 Prelude to Munich: ‘We Are in an Awful Mess’
47 The Munich Agreement: ‘The Worst of Both Worlds’
48 The Munich Debate and After: ‘A Defeat Without a War’
49 ‘I Feel Much Alone’
50 ‘The Best Chapter in His Crowded Life’
51 April–June 1939: ‘England Owes You Many Apologies’
52 July 1939: ‘Bring Back Churchill’
53 The Coming of War
List of Sources
Endnotes
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