Authors: Winston S. Churchill, John Keegan
ISBN-13: 9780395410561, ISBN-10: 0395410568
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date Published: May 1986
Edition: Reissue
Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) has been called by historians "the man of the twentieth century." Prime Minister of Great Britain (1940-1945), Churchill won the Nobel prize for literature in 1953.
"The second volume of Churchill's Nobel-Prize winning six-part chronicle of World War II. Their "finest hour" refers to Britain that struggled alone to survive overwhelming German advantage; detailed reconstruction of the bombing of London, the Battle of Britain.
Book I | The Fall of France | |
Chapter I | The National Coalition | 3 |
Chapter II | The Battle of France: The First Week. Gamelin | 25 |
Chapter III | The Battle of France: The Second Week. Weygand | 47 |
Chapter IV | The March to the Sea | 66 |
Chapter V | The Deliverance of Dunkirk | 87 |
Chapter VI | The Rush for the Spoils | 105 |
Chapter VII | Back to France | 122 |
Chapter VIII | Home Defence. June | 143 |
Chapter IX | The French Agony | 157 |
Chapter X | The Bordeaux Armistice | 175 |
Chapter XI | Admiral Darlan and the French Fleet. Oran | 197 |
Chapter XII | The Apparatus of Counter-attack. 1940 | 213 |
Chapter XIII | At Bay | 225 |
Chapter XIV | The Invasion Problem | 247 |
Chapter XV | Operation "Sea Lion" | 266 |
Book II | Alone | |
Chapter XVI | The Battle of Britain | 281 |
Chapter XVII | The Blitz | 301 |
Chapter XVIII | "London Can Take It" | 316 |
Chapter XIX | The Wizard War | 337 |
Chapter XX | United States Destroyers and West Indian Bases | 353 |
Chapter XXI | Egypt and the Middle East | 369 |
Chapter XXII | The Mediterranean Passage | 388 |
Chapter XXIII | September Tensions | 403 |
Chapter XXIV | Dakar | 419 |
Chapter XXV | Mr. Eden's Mission | 438 |
Chapter XXVI | Relations with Vichy and Spain | 449 |
Chapter XXVII | Mussolini Attacks Greece | 470 |
Chapter XXVIII | Lend-Lease | 488 |
Chapter XXIX | Germany and Russia | 509 |
Chapter XXX | Ocean Peril | 525 |
Chapter XXXI | Desert Victory | 538 |
Appendices | ||
A. | Minutes and Telegrams, May-December 1940 | 559 |
B. | Loss by Encmy Action of British, Allied, and Neutral Merchant Tonnage | 637 |
C. | Aircraft Strength--Battle of Britain, 1940 | 640 |
D. | Correspondence relating to Dakar between Mr. Churchill and Mr. Menzies | 645 |
E. | List of Operational Code Names | 650 |
F. | List of Abbreviations | 651 |
Index | 653 | |
Maps and Diagrams | ||
The Forward Movements, starting May 10 | 29 | |
The Opposing Forces, May 13 | 37 | |
German Advances on Successive Days, May 13-17, 1940 | 41 | |
Situation, Evening May 18 | 50 | |
Situation, Evening May 22 | 59 | |
Battle of Arras, May 21-22 | 63 | |
Situation at Nightfall, May 25 | 75 | |
Area of Operations, May 1940 | 78 | |
Situation, May 28 | 85 | |
Diagrams of Dunkirk Perimeter, May 29-June I | 93 | |
The Opposing Forces on the Western Flank, June 5, 1940 | 132 | |
The German Advance, June 5-9 | 133 | |
The Last Stand of the French Army, June 1940 | 170 | |
General Map of Western France | 174 | |
State of Readiness of Infantry Divisions | 239 | |
Sketch Map of German Invasion Plan | 273 | |
Graph of Battle of Britain | 298 | |
Disposition of Main Fleets in Mediterranean, June 14, 1940 | 389 | |
General Map of N.W. France and Belgium | 462 | |
Desert Victory, December 1940-January 1941 | 545 |