WINSTON CHURCHILL began to write the first of what were to be the six volumes of The Second World War in 1946. It was a work he had expected to postpone to a later stage of his life, since he had looked forward in 1945 to extending his wartime leadership into the peace. The rejection of his party by the electorate was a heavy blow, which might have dulled his urge to write. But resilience was perhaps the most pronounced of his traits of character, and he had already written the history of another great war in which he had been a principal actor. Once committed to the task, he attacked it with an energy, enthusiasm and power of organisation which would have been remarkable in a professional historian of half his age.

BOOK I

GERMANY DRIVES EAST

THE DESERT AND THE BALKANS

THE WIDENING WAR

BLITZ AND ANTI-BLITZ. HESS

THE MEDITERRANEAN WAR

CONQUEST OF THE ITALIAN EMPIRE

DECISION TO AID GREECE

THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: THE WESTERN

  APPROACHES

THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: AMERICAN INTER-

  VENTION

YUGOSLAVIA

THE JAPANESE ENVOY

THE DESERT FLANK. ROMMEL. TOBRUK

THE GREEK CAMPAIGN

TRIPOLI AND "TIGER"

THE REVOLT IN IRAQ

CRETE: THE ADVENT

CRETE: THE BATTLE

THE FATE OF THE "BISMARCK"

SYRIA

GENERAL WAVELL'S FINAL EFFORT: "BATILEAXE".

THE Sorer NEMESIS

BOOK II

WAR COMES TO AMERICA

Chapter

OUR SOVIET ALLY

AN AFPaCAN PAUSE. DEFENCE OF TOBRUK

MY MEETING WITH ROOSEVELT

THE ATLANTIC CHARTER

AID To RUSSIA

PERSIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST

THE MOUNTING STRENGTH OF BRITAIN

CLOSER CONTACTS WITH RUSSIA

THE PATH ABEAD

OPERATION "CRUSADER": ASHORE, ALOFT, AND AFLOAT

JAPAN

PEARL HARBOUR!

A VOYAGE AMID WORLD WAR

PROPOSED PLAN AND SEQUENCE OF THE WAR

WASHINGTON AND OTTAWA

ANGLO-AMERICAN ACCORDS

RETURN TO STORM

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