List of Illustrations | p. 7 |
List of Maps | p. 7 |
Glossary | p. 8 |
Outline Summary | p. 10 |
Introduction | p. 11 |
The Outbreak of the Second World War | |
The Issue of Poland | p. 16 |
The Nazi-Soviet Pact | p. 21 |
War over Poland | p. 25 |
Disaster: The Battle of France | |
The Phoney War | p. 29 |
The Norwegian Campaign | p. 32 |
The Defeat of France | p. 36 |
Britain Alone against Hitler | p. 43 |
Survival: The Battle of Britain | |
Hitler's Plans | p. 47 |
The Combatants | p. 48 |
The Course of the Battle | p. 53 |
The Blitz | p. 56 |
The Significance of the Battle of Britain | p. 61 |
The Home Front | |
Evacuation | p. 65 |
The Impact of the Blitz | p. 67 |
The War and Class Antagonism | p. 74 |
Women and me War | p. 77 |
Government Power and Control | p. 81 |
The War in the Mediterranean | |
The Mediterranean in 1940 | p. 86 |
The Campaign in Greece and Crete | p. 88 |
The Italian Collapse in Africa | p. 90 |
The Intervention of the Afrikakorps | p. 93 |
The Turn of the Tide: The Battles of El Alamein | p. 96 |
The Expulsion of the Axis from Africa | p. 99 |
The Allied Invasion of Italy | p. 101 |
The Downfall of the Third Reich | |
The Battle of the Atlantic | p. 106 |
Hitler's War against the Soviet Union | p. 109 |
Failure Again: the Disaster of Stalingrad | p. 112 |
The Bombing Offensive | p. 115 |
Operation Overlord: the Liberation of France | p. 118 |
The Collapse of Nazi Germany | p. 123 |
The War against Japan in the Pacific | |
Japanese Ambitions and Policies | p. 125 |
Lightning War in the Pacific | p. 129 |
The Prisoners of the Japanese | p. 135 |
British Recovery: The Campaigns in Burma | p. 138 |
American Victories over Japan | p. 143 |
The Atom Bomb and the Surrender of Japan | p. 145 |
Labour's Creative Period, 1945-1947 | |
Labour's Election Victory of 1945 | p. 149 |
The Nationalization Programme | p. 152 |
The Social Policies of the Labour Government | p. 157 |
Society and Culture after the War | p. 162 |
Crisis and Consolidation, 1947-1951 | |
The Crisis of 1947 | p. 170 |
The Ascendancy of Sir Stafford Cripps | p. 172 |
Labour's Defeat of 1951 | p. 178 |
The Labour Party and the Empire | |
The British Empire during WWII | p. 185 |
The End of the Indian Raj | p. 189 |
The Problem of Palestine | p. 199 |
The Dependent Empire | p. 203 |
The Commonwealth | p. 206 |
British Foreign Policy at the Start of the Cold War | |
The Disintegration of the Wartime Alliance | p. 208 |
The Foundation of the Western Alliance | p. 216 |
The Korean War and its Effects | p. 220 |
Conclusion | p. 226 |
Index | p. 231 |
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