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Tables of Contents for Churchill
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
ix
Preface
xiii
Glossary of Parliamentary Terms
xvii
PART ONE A Brash Young Man 1874--1908
A Doubtful Provenance
3
19
Subaltern of Empire and Journalist of Opportunity
22
25
Oldham and South Africa
47
18
Tory into Liberal
65
24
Convert into Minister
89
22
An Upwardly Mobile Under-Secretary
111
18
PART TWO The Glow-Worm Glows: The Morning was Golden 1908--1914
Two Hustings and and Altar
129
13
The Sorcerer's Apprentice at the Board of Trade
142
25
A Young Home Secretary
167
25
From Prisons to Warships
192
15
'The Ruler of the King's Navee'
207
15
Churchill in Asquithland
222
21
PART THREE The Noontide was Bronze 1914--1918
A Flailing First Lord
243
11
Last Months at the Admiralty
254
23
Finished at Forty?
277
12
An Improbable Colonel and a Misjudged Re-entry
289
21
Lloyd George's Ambulance Wagon Arrives a Little Late
310
15
Making the Most of Munitions
325
20
PART FOUR Hesistant Afternoon Sunshine 1919--1939
Anti-Bolshevik Crusader and Irish Peacemaker
345
25
A Politician without a Party or a Seat
370
23
Gold and Strikes
393
25
A Relentless Writer
418
15
Cuckoo out of the Nest
433
14
Unwisdom in the Wilderness
447
17
An Early Alarm Clock
464
17
Arms and the Covenant
481
24
From the Abdication to Munich
505
25
The Last Year of the Peace
530
21
PART FIVE The Saviour of his Country and the Light of the World? 1939--1945
Quiet War with Germany and Uneasy Peace with Chamberlain
551
19
Through Disaster in the Fjords to Triumph in Downing Street
570
19
Twenty-One Days in May
589
22
The Terrible Beauty of the Summer of 1940
611
19
The Battle of Britain and the Beginning of the Blitz
630
17
No Longer Alone
647
22
The Anglo-American Marriage Ceremony
669
11
The Hinge Year
680
25
1943: From Casablanca to Teheran
705
24
The Return to France
729
17
The Beginning of the End
746
27
Victory in Europe and Defeat in Britain
773
30
PART SIX Was the Evening Leaden? 1945--1965
`The English Patient'
803
24
Two Elections and a Resurrection
827
16
A Consensual Government
843
19
`An Aeroplane...with the Petrol Running Out'
862
23
A Celebration and a Last Exit
885
13
The Sun Sinks Slow, How Slowly
898
15
References
913
40
Select Bibliography
953
6
Index
959