Winston's war: Churchill, 1940 - 1945
Churchill got many little things wrong, but he was right, crucially so, on major points of Allied strategy. When the Americans joined the war, they were hot to invade France. Churchill dissuaded Roosevelt from mounting what, in 1942 or 1943, would have been a suicide mission, and redirected Allied a...
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| Summary: | Churchill got many little things wrong, but he was right, crucially so, on major points of Allied strategy. When the Americans joined the war, they were hot to invade France. Churchill dissuaded Roosevelt from mounting what, in 1942 or 1943, would have been a suicide mission, and redirected Allied attention to North Africa and Italy. The Mediterranean campaign bore mixed results, but Churchill's instincts were correct. There is a poignant ambiguity about Hastings's title; after 1943, the conflict was anything but Winston's war. For a time, Churchill alone had embodied the West's hopes; but as the war turned in the Allies' favor, he was shunted aside. Roosevelt ignored his advice, and, to Churchill's horror, signed off on Stalin's subjugation of Eastern Europe. In these last years, we see a much diminished war leader. Churchill deserves our admiration; first, however, as Hastings wisely insists, "history must take Churchill as a whole."--From publisher description. |
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Contents
List of Maps
xi
Introduction
3
1.
The Battle of France
11
2.
The Two Dunkirks
40
3.
Invasion Fever
59
4.
The Battle of Britain
74
5.
Greek Fire
99
6.
Comrades
130
7.
The Battle of America
147
8.
A Glimpse of Arcadia
182
9.
"The Valley of Humiliation"
198
10.
"Second Front Now!"
230
11.
Camels and the Bear
255
12.
The Turn of Fortune
270
13.
Out of the Desert
297
14.
Sunk in the Aegean
323
15.
Tehran
341
IX
χ
/ Contents
16.
Setting
Europe
Ablaze
364
17.
Overlord
384
18.
Bargaining with an Empty Wallet
398
19.
Athens: "Wounded in the House of Our Friends"
422
20.
Yalta
441
21.
The Final Act
450
Acknowledgements and References
485
Notes
487
Select Bibliography
517
Index
525
Maps
Europe
xii
The Mediterranean
xiv
May
1940
Deployments
17
The German Advance
29
The Dunkirk Perimeter
35
Operation Sealion
86
Operation Compass
108
The North African Campaign
274
Operation Torch
276
The Italian Campaign
310
The Dodecanese
328
Overlord and Anvil
401
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