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THE SECOND WORLD WAR (6 VOLUMES)

by Winston S. Churchill

Published by Folio Society. 1st thus. 2000

Slightly better than very good condition. 6 Volume set. Starting with The Gathering Storm and ending with Triumph and Tragedy. Cloth spines, pictorial front boards.

A lovely set divided into two sets of three. Contained in publisher's slipcases with a few minor marks and scuffs, slipcase containing volumes 4-6 is just starting to split at top open corner (due to sheer weight of books).

Stock no. 1825762

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Contents

  • THE GATHERING STORM
  • Introduction
  • Author's Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • BOOK ONE
  • From War to War
  • 1919-1939
  • 1 The Follies of the Victors, 1919-1929
  • 2 Peace at its Zenith, 1922-1931
  • 3 Lurking Dangers
  • 4 Adolf Hitler
  • 5 The Locust Years, 1931-1935
  • 6 The Darkening Scene, 1934
  • 7 Air Parity Lost, 1934-1935
  • 8 Challenge and Response, 1935
  • 9 Problems of Air and Sea, 1935-1939
  • 10 Sanctions against Italy, 1935
  • 11 Hitler Strikes, 1936
  • 12 The Loaded Pause, Spain, 1936-1937
  • 13 Germany Armed, 1936-1938
  • 14 Mr Eden at the Foreign Office. His Resignation
  • 15 The Rape of Austria, February 1938
  • 16 Czechoslovakia
  • 17 The Tragedy of Munich
  • 18 Munich Winter
  • 19 Praque, Albania and the Polish Guarantee, January-April 1939
  • 20 On the Verge
  • BOOK TWO
  • The Twilight War
  • September 3, 1939-May 10, 1940
  • 22 War
  • 23 The Admiralty Task
  • 24 The Ruin of Poland
  • 25 War Cabinet Problems
  • 26 The Front in France
  • 27 The Combat Deepens
  • 28 The Magnetic Mine, November and December 1939
  • 29 The Action off the River Plate
  • 30 Scandinavia. Finland
  • 31 A Dark New Year
  • 32 Before the Storm, March 1940
  • 33 The Clash at Sea, April 1940
  • 34 Narvik
  • 35 Trondheim
  • 36 Frustration in Norway
  • 37 Norway: the Final Phase
  • 38 The Fall of the Government
  • APPENDICES
  • THEIR FINEST HOUR
  • Author's Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • BOOK ONE
  • The Fall of France
  • 1 The National Coalition
  • 2 The Battle of France. The First Week: Gamelin, May 10-May 16
  • 3 The Battle of France. The Second Week: Weygand, May 17 - May 24
  • 4 The March to the Sea, May 24 - May 31
  • 5 The Deliverance of Dunkirk, May 26 - June 4
  • 6 The Rush for the Spoils
  • 7 Back to France, June 4 - June 12
  • 8 Home Defence, June
  • 9 The French Agony
  • 10 The Bordeaux Armistice
  • 11 Admiral Darlan and the French Fleet, Oran
  • 12 The Apparatus of Counter-Attack, 1940
  • 13 At Bay, July 1940
  • 14 The Invasion Problem
  • 15 Operation 'Sea Lion'
  • BOOK TWO
  • Alone
  • 16 The Battle of Britain
  • 17 The Blitz
  • 18 'London Can Take It'
  • 19 The Wizard War
  • 20 United States Destroyers and West Indies Bases
  • 21 Egypt and the Middle East, 1940, June-July-August
  • 22 The Mediterranean Passage
  • 23 September Tensions
  • 24 Dakar
  • 25 Mr Eden's Mission, October 1940
  • 26 Relations with Vichy and Spain
  • 27 Mussolini Attacks Greece, October-November 1940
  • 28 Lend-Lease
  • 29 Germany and Russia
  • 30 Ocean Peril
  • 31 Desert Victory
  • APPENDICES
  • THE GRAND ALLIANCE
  • Author's Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • BOOK ONE
  • Germany Drives East
  • 1 The Desert and the Balkans
  • 2 The Widening War
  • 3 Blitz and Anti-Blitz. Hess
  • 4 The Mediterranean War
  • 5 Conquest of the Italian Empire
  • 6 Decision to Aid Greece
  • 7 The Battle of the Atlantic 1941: The Western Approaches
  • 8 The Battle of the Atlantic 1941: American Intervention
  • 9 Yugoslavia
  • 10 The Japanese Envoy
  • 11 The Desert Flank. Rommel. Tobruk
  • 12 The Greek Campaign
  • 13 Tripoli and 'Tiger'
  • 14 The Revolt of Iraq
  • 15 Crete: The Advent
  • 16 Crete: The Battle
  • 17 The Fate of the Bismarck
  • 18 Syria
  • 19 General Wavell's Final Effort: 'Battleaxe'
  • 20 The Soviet Nemesis
  • 21 Our Soviet Ally
  • 22 An African Pause. Defence of Tobruk
  • 23 My Meeting with Roosevelt
  • 24 The Atlantic Charter
  • 25 Aid to Russia
  • 26 Persia and the Middle East, Summer and Autumn 1941
  • 27 The Mounting Strength of Britain, Autumn 1941
  • 28 Closer Contacts with Russia, Autumn and Winter 1941
  • 29 The Path Ahead
  • 30 Operation 'Crusader': Ashore, Aloft and Afloat
  • 31 Japan
  • 32 Pearl Harbour!
  • 33 A Voyage Amid World War
  • 34 Proposed Plan and Sequence of the War
  • 35 Washington and Ottawa
  • 36 Anglo-American Accords
  • 37 Return to Storm
  • APPENDICES
  • THE HINGE OF FATE
  • Author's Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • BOOK ONE
  • The Onslaught of Japan
  • 1 Australian Anxieties
  • 2 The Setback in the Desert
  • 3 Penalties in Malaya
  • 4 A Vote of Confidence
  • 5 Cabinet Changes
  • 6 The Fall of Singapore
  • 7 The U-Boat Paradise
  • 8 The Loss of the Dutch East Indies
  • 9 The Invasion of Burma
  • 10 Ceylon and the Bay of Bengal
  • 11 The Shipping Stranglehold
  • 12 India: The Cripps Mission
  • 13 Madagascar
  • 14 American Naval Victories: The Coral Sea and Midway Island
  • 15 The Arctic Convoys, 1942
  • 16 The Offensive in the Aether
  • 17 Malta and the Desert
  • 18 'Second Front Now!', April 1942
  • 19 The Molotov Visit
  • 20 Strategic Natural Selection
  • 21 Rommel Attacks
  • 22 My Second Visit to Washington
  • 23 the Vote of Censure
  • BOOK TWO
  • Africa Redeemed
  • 24 The Eighth Army at Bay
  • 25 Decision for 'Torch'
  • 26 My Journey to Cairo. Changes in Command
  • 27 Moscow: The First Meeting
  • 28 Moscow: A Relationship Established
  • 29 Return to Cairo
  • 30 The Final Shaping of 'Torch'
  • 31 Suspense and Strain
  • 32 Soviet' Thank You'
  • 33 The Battle of Alamein
  • 34 The Torch is Lit
  • 35 The Darlan Episode
  • 36 Problems of Victory
  • 37 Our Need to Meet
  • 38 The Casablanca Conference
  • 39 Adana and Tripoli
  • 40 Home to Trouble
  • 41 Russia and the Western Allies
  • 42 Victory in Tunis
  • 43 My Third Visit to Washington
  • 44 Problems of War and Peace
  • 45 Italy the Goal
  • APPENDICES
  • CLOSING THE RING
  • Author's Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • BOOK ONE
  • Italy Won
  • 1 The Command of the Seas, Guadalcanal and New Guinea
  • 2 The Conquest of Sicily, July and August 1943
  • 3 The Fall of Mussolini
  • 4 Westward Ho! Synthetic Harbours
  • 5 The Quebec Conference. 'Quadrant'
  • 6 Italy: The Armistice
  • 7 The Invasion of Italy: At the White House Again
  • 8 The Battle of Salerno. A Homeward Voyage
  • 9 A Spell At Home
  • 10 Tensions with General de Gaulle
  • 11 The Broken Axis, Autumn 1943
  • 12 Island Prizes Lost
  • 13 Hitler's 'Secret Weapon'
  • 14 Deadlock on the Third Front
  • 15 Arctic Convoys Again
  • 16 Foreign Secretaries' Conference in Moscow
  • 17 Advent of the Triple Meeting. The High Commands
  • BOOK TWO
  • Teheran to Rome
  • 18 Cairo
  • 19 Teheran: The Opening
  • 20 Conversations and Conferences
  • 21 Teheran: The Crux
  • 22 Teheran: Conclusions
  • 23 Cairo Again. The High Command
  • 24 In Carthage Ruins. Anzio
  • 25 At Marrakesh. Convalescence
  • 26 Marshal Tito and Yugoslavia
  • 27 The Anzio Stroke
  • 28 Italy: Cassino
  • 29 The Mounting Air Offensive
  • 30 The Greek Torment
  • 31 Burma and Beyond
  • 32 Strategy against Japan
  • 33 Preparations for 'Overlord'
  • 34 Rome, May 11-June 9
  • 35 On the Eve
  • APPENDICES
  • TRIUMP AND TRAGEDY
  • Author's Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • BOOK ONE
  • The Tide of Victory
  • 1 D Day
  • 2 Normandy to Paris
  • 3 The Pilotless Bombardment
  • 4 Attack on the South of France?
  • 5 Balkan Convulsions. The Russian Victories
  • 6 Italy and the Rivieria Landing
  • 7 Rome. The Greek Problem
  • 8 Alexander's Summer Offensive
  • 9 The Martyrdom of Warsaw
  • 10 The Second Quebec Conference
  • 11 Advance in Burma
  • 12 The Battle of Leyte Gulf
  • 13 The Liberations of Western Europe
  • 14 Prelude to a Moscow Visit
  • 15 October in Moscow
  • 16 Paris
  • 17 Counter-stroke in the Ardennes
  • 18 British Intervention in Greece
  • 19 Christmas at Athens
  • BOOK TWO
  • The Iron Curtain
  • 20 Preparations for a New Conference
  • 21 Yalta: Plans for World Peace
  • 22 Russia and Poland: the Soviet Promise
  • 23 Yalta: Finale
  • 24 Crossing the Rhine
  • 25 The Polish Dispute
  • 26 Soviet Suspicions
  • 27 Western Strategic Divergences
  • 28 The Climax: Roosevelt's Death
  • 29 Growing Friction with Russia
  • 30 The Final Advance
  • 31 Alexander's Victory in Italy
  • 32 The German Surrender
  • 33 An Uneasy Interlude
  • 34 The Chasm Opens
  • 35 The End of the Coalition
  • 36 A Fateful Decision
  • 37 The Defeat in Japan
  • 38 Potsdam: The Atomic Bomb
  • 39 Potsdam: The Polish Frontiers
  • 40 The End of My Account
  • APPENDICES

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