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The gathering storm / Winston S. Churchill.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Churchill, Winston, Second World War (1948) ; 1.Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1948Copyright date: �1948Description: xvi, 784 pages : maps, diagrams ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780395075371
  • 0395075378
  • 9780395410554
  • 039541055X
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Gathering storm.DDC classification:
  • 940.53 C47g
LOC classification:
  • D743 .C47 vol. 1
NLM classification:
  • 000073313
Contents:
The follies of the victors, 1919-1929 -- Peace at its zenith, 1922-1931 -- Lurking dangers -- Adolf Hitler -- The locust years, 1931-1935 -- The darkening scene, 1934 -- Air parity lost, 1934-1935 -- Challenge and response, 1935 -- Problems of air and sea, 1935-1939 -- Sanctions against Italy, 1935 -- Hitler strikes -- The loaded pause-Spain -- Germany armed, 1936-1938 -- Mr. Eden at the Foreign Office: his resignation -- The rape of Austria, February, 1938 -- Czechoslovakia -- The tragedy of Munich -- Munich winter -- Prague, Albania, and the Polish guarantee, January-April, 1939 -- The Soviet enigma -- On the verge -- War -- The admiralty task -- The ruin of Poland -- War cabinet problems -- The front in France -- The combat deepens -- The magnetic mine -- The action off the river plate -- Scandinavia, Finland -- A dark New Year -- Before the storm -- The clash at sea -- Narvik -- Trondheim -- Frustration in Norway -- Norway: the final phase -- The fall of the government.
Summary: Covers the period from the Treaty of Versailles to Churchill's appointment as Prime Minister in 1940.
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The follies of the victors, 1919-1929 -- Peace at its zenith, 1922-1931 -- Lurking dangers -- Adolf Hitler -- The locust years, 1931-1935 -- The darkening scene, 1934 -- Air parity lost, 1934-1935 -- Challenge and response, 1935 -- Problems of air and sea, 1935-1939 -- Sanctions against Italy, 1935 -- Hitler strikes -- The loaded pause-Spain -- Germany armed, 1936-1938 -- Mr. Eden at the Foreign Office: his resignation -- The rape of Austria, February, 1938 -- Czechoslovakia -- The tragedy of Munich -- Munich winter -- Prague, Albania, and the Polish guarantee, January-April, 1939 -- The Soviet enigma -- On the verge -- War -- The admiralty task -- The ruin of Poland -- War cabinet problems -- The front in France -- The combat deepens -- The magnetic mine -- The action off the river plate -- Scandinavia, Finland -- A dark New Year -- Before the storm -- The clash at sea -- Narvik -- Trondheim -- Frustration in Norway -- Norway: the final phase -- The fall of the government.

Woods, F. Bibliography of the works of Sir Winston Churchill, A123(a)

Cohen, R.I. Bibliography of the writings of Sir Winston Churchill, volume 1, entry A240

Covers the period from the Treaty of Versailles to Churchill's appointment as Prime Minister in 1940.