Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940–45. Max Hastings

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       Finest Years

      MAX HASTINGS

      Churchill as Warlord 1940-45

      

       Copyright

      William Collins

      An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF www.harpercollins.com

      Published by HarperPress in 2009

      

      Copyright © Max Hastings 2009

      

      The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      

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      Source ISBN: 9780007263684

      Ebook Edition © AUGUST 2009 ISBN: 9780007344116 Version: 2017-07-26

       In memory of Roy Jenkins, and our Indian summer friendship

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       Seven: The Battle of America

       Eight: A Glimpse of Arcadia

       Nine: ‘The Valley of Humiliation’

       Ten: Soldiers, Bosses and ‘Slackers’

       Eleven: ‘Second Front Now!’

       Twelve: Camels and the Bear

       Thirteen: The Turn of Fortune

       Fourteen: Out of the Desert

       Fifteen: Sunk in the Aegean

       Sixteen: Tehran

       Seventeen: Setting Europe Ablaze

       Eighteen: Overlord

       Nineteen: Bargaining with an Empty Wallet

       Twenty: Athens: ‘Wounded in the House of Our Friends’

       Twenty-One: Yalta

       Twenty-Two: The Final Act

       Keep Reading

       Notes and Sources

       Select Bibliography

       Index

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

      

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