Winston S. Churchill : Finest Hour, 1939-1941.

Intro -- 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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