Churchill 1940-1945 : under friendly fire /: under friendly fire. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Walter Reid.
• Other Names: Reid, Walter
• Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Maps; Part I; 1. The War of Words; 2. The Semblance of Power; 3. Domestic Support; 4. The Political Landscape; 5. Preparation; 6. The Greatest of the Myths; 7. The Machinery of Command; 8. The Battle of France; 9. The Constable of France; 10. Sailors, Airmen and Soldiers; 11. Carrying the War to the Enemy: The Western Desert 1940; 12. Greece; 13. Difficulties with Wavell; 14. De Gaulle Flexes his Muscles; 15. The End of Wavell. Auchinleck; 16. The End of Another Desert General; 17. Dilly-Dally and Brookie; Part II. 18. Westward, Look!19. America and Europe; 20. Destroyers for Bases; 21. Lend-Lease; 22. Placentia Bay; 23. Pearl Harbor; 24. Arcadia; 25. Arcadia Resumed; Part III; 26. Political Weakness in 1942; 27. Strategy on the Sea and in the Air; 28. The Alliance's Teething Problems; 29. London, July 1942. Where to Attack and When; 30. An Indian Interlude; 31. 'This Bleak Lull'; 32. A Llama and a Crocodile; 33. Second Alamein and Torch; 34. The French Dimension; 35. Casablanca; 36. De Gaulle at Casablanca; 37. The Strains Intensify; 38. Trident; 39. The First Quebec Conference: Quadrant. 40. Exasperation in the Aegean41. Teheran; 42. Marrakech and de Gaulle; 43. Italy and Overlord; 44. Anvil and the Vienna Alternative; 45. D-Day: De Gaulle Remains Below the Level of Events; 46. The Return to Europe; 47. The Second Quebec Conference; 48. Breakout: Allies at Loggerheads; 49. 'The Naughty Document'; 50. Allies Accelerating Apart. Christmas in Athens; 51. Yalta; 52. The Disintegration of Unity; 53. Potsdam; Epilogue; Appendix I: Codenames for Principal Military Operations; Appendix II: Principal War Conferences; Appendix III: Outline Chronology of Churchill's War.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Birlinn
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 940.532241; World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history; Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Histoire diplomatique; HISTORY -- Europe -- Western; Diplomatic history; Diplomatic relations; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1936-1945; Grande-Bretagne -- Relations extérieures -- 1936-1945; Great Britain; History; Downloadable e-Books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857901262; 0857901265
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.