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Index
Cover
Frontispiece
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Illustrations
Maps
Preface
Acknowledgements to the New Edition
Part One: Victory 1945
1 ‘An Iron Curtain Is Drawn Down’
2 ‘Some Form of Gestapo’
3 Prelude to Potsdam
4 Electioneering
5 ‘Terminal,’ The Potsdam Conference
6 Defeat
Part Two: In Opposition 1945–1951
7 ‘Now There Is the Tumble!’
8 Italian Interlude
9 ‘Vain Repinings’
10 The Fulton Speech
11 Virginia, Washington, New York
12 ‘Victory Bleak and Disappointing’
13 Chartwell, ‘The Corpse’ and the War Memoirs
14 ‘Fulton Still Holds Its Own!’
15 ‘“Scuttle,” Everywhere, Is the Order of the Day
16 Family, Friends and Fears
17 ‘Our Battered Shores’
18 Britain, ‘The Vital Link Between Them All’
19 ‘Grinding and Gnawing Peace’
20 The Dream
21 Marrakech, 1947
22 ‘My Experience, Which Is Unique…’
23 Writing the Memoirs, 1948
24 ‘Hard, Hard Working Wonderful Papa’
25 ‘Poor Old Britain…’
26 Peace, and the Atomic Bomb
27 Thoughts, and Plans, at Seventy-Four
28 An Election Lost
29 ‘No Extinct Volcano He’
30 Korea, and the ‘Front Against Communism’
31 ‘New, Strange, Gathering Dangers’
32 Return to Marrakech, 1950
33 ‘Such Awful Hazards’
34 ‘It Is Only the Truth that Wounds’
35 Towards the General Election
Part Three: Second Premiership 1951–1955
36 Prime Minister for the Second Time
37 Transatlantic Journey, January 1952
38 1952: ‘A Volcanic Flash’
39 ‘The Zest Is Diminished’
40 Renewed Vigour
41 Towards Seventy-Eight, and Beyond
42 Return to the United States
43 Stalin’s Death
44 The Call for a Summit
45 Stroke
46 Recovery
47 Staying On: ‘I May… Have an Influence’
48 The Bermuda Conference, December 1953
49 ‘Unimaginable Horrors’
50 To Resign or Not to Resign
51 Summer 1954: Return to Washington
52 Disputes on the Road to Moscow
53 ‘No Intention of Abandoning My Post’
54 Prime Minister at Eighty
55 Decision to Resign
56 The Challenge of the Hydrogen Bomb
57 ‘A New Chance’
58 Resignation
Part Four: Final Decade 1955–1965
59 In Retirement
60 ‘Determined to Persevere’
61 New Strength, and a New Book
62 ‘A Temple of Peace’
63 Travels and Reflections
64 ‘The Closing Days or Years of Life’
65 Good Times and Bad
66 Last Years
Epilogue
Maps
Endnotes
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