Record details

• ISBN: 9780812997354
• ISBN: 0812997352
• Physical Description: print
  xviii, 553 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
• Edition: First edition.
• Publisher: New York : Random House, [2017]
• Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

PART ONE: FIGHTING ON -- 1. "MAJESTY, WE ARE AT WAR!" Hitler Invades Norway -- 2. "A BOLD AND NOBLE WOMAN" Holland Falls But Its Queen Escapes -- 3. "A COMPLETE AND UTTER SHAMBLES" The Collapse of Belgium and France -- 4. "WE SHALL CONQUER TOGETHER -- OR WE SHALL DIE TOGETHER" The European Exodus to Britain -- 5. "SOMETHING CALLED HEAVY WATER" The Rescue Mission That Changed the Course of the War -- 6. "THEY ARE BETTER THAN ANY OF US" The Triumph of Polish Pilots in the Battle of Britain -- 7. "MY GOD, THIS IS A LOVELY PLACE TO BE!" The Exhilaration of Wartime London -- 8. THIS IS LONDON CALLING" The BBC Brings Hope to Occupied Europe -- 9. "AN AVALANCHE OF V'S" The First Spark of European Resistance -- 10. SPYING ON THE NAZIS, Cracking Enigma and Other European Intelligence Coups -- 11. "A MAD HATTER'S TEA PARTY" SOE and Its Struggle to Set Europe Ablaze -- 12. FACTIONS, FEUDS AND INFIGHTING, The Shock of Exile -- PART TWO: RULE OF THE TITANS -- 13. "RICH AND POOR RELATIONS" The European Allies' Fading Importance -- 14. "THE UGLY REALITY" The Soviet Threat to Poland and Czechoslovakia -- 15. "THE ENGLAND GAME" SOE's Dutch Disaster -- 16. "BE MORE CAREFUL NEXT TIME" SOE's Debacle in France -- 17. "HEROISM BEYOND ANYTHING I CAN TELL YOU" Rescuing Allied Airmen -- 18. A GIANT JIGSAW PUZZLE, European Spies Prepare for D-Day -- 19. "A FORMIDABLE SECRET ARMY" The Resurrection of SOE -- 20. "THE POOR LITTLE ENGLISH DONKEY" Stalin and Roosevelt Flex Their Muscles -- 21. SETTLING THE SCORE, Europe's Liberation Begins -- 22. "A TALE OF TWO CITIES" Warsaw and Paris Rise Up -- 23. "I WAS A STRANGER AND YOU TOOK ME IN" Defeat at Arnhem -- 24. THE HUNGER WINTER Holland's Looming Destruction -- 25. "THERE WAS NEVER A HAPPIER DAY" Coming Home -- 26. "WHY ARE YOU CRYING, YOUNG MAN?" The West Turns Its Back on Poland and Czechoslovakia -- 27. "A COLLECTIVE FAULT" The Shadow of Collaboration -- 28. "THE WORLD COULD NOT POSSIBLY BE THE SAME" Planning for the Future -- 29. "MY COUNSEL TO EUROPE -- UNITE!" Postwar Europe Bands Together.

Search for related items by subject

Subject:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Governments in exile

World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history

World War, 1939-1945 -- Europe

World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain

Heads of state -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century

Europeans -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century

Exiles -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century

Political refugees -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century

Government, Resistance to -- Europe -- History -- 20th century

Europe -- Politics and government -- 1918-1945

Genre:

History.