Book One GERMANY DRIVES EAST 1
1.The Desert and the Balkans 3
2.The Widening War 22
3.Blitz and Anti-Blitz,1941:Hess 38
4.The Mediterranean War 56
5.Conquest of the Italian Empire 78
6.Decision to Aid Greece 94
7.The Battle of the Atlantic,1941 The Western Approaches 111
8.The Battle of the Atlantic,1941 The American Intervention 136
9.Yugoslavia 156
10.The Japanese Envoy 176
11.The Desert Flank:Rommel:Tobruk 196
12.The Greek Campaign 218
13.Tripoli and"Tiger" 238
14.The Revolt in Iraq 253
15.Crete:The Advent 268
16.Crete:The Battle 284
17.The Fate of the"Bismarck" 305
18.Syria 321
19.General Wavell's Final Effort:"Battleaxe" 333
20.The Soviet Nemesis 352
Book Two WAR COMES TO AMERICA 375
1.Our Soviet Ally 377
2.An African Pause:Tobruk 396
3.My Meeting with Roosevelt 419
4.The Atlantic Charter 433
5.Aid to Russia 451
6.Persia and the Middle East Summer and Autumn,1941 476
7.The Mounting Strength of Britain Autumn,1941 501
8.Closer Contacts with Russia Autumn and Winter,1941 524
9.The Path Ahead 539
10.Operation"Crusader"Ashore,Aloft,and Afloat 557
11.Japan 578
12.Pearl Harbour! 604
13.A Voyage Amid World War 625
14.Proposed Plan and Sequence of the War 644
15.Washington and Ottawa 662
16.Anglo-American Accords 682
17.Return to Storm 699
Appendices 713
Index 873