Five days in London, May 1940 / John Lukacs.
Record details
- ISBN: 0300080301
- ISBN: 9780300080308
- Physical Description: xvi, 236 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1999]
- Copyright: ©1999
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-227) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 1 Hinge of Fate -- Turning point. Two accounts -- Awesomeness of the German tide -- Black Fortnight -- Problems of British morale -- Distrust of Churchill -- Opinions and sentiments -- "Outwardly calm, inwardly anxious." -- 2 Friday, 24 May -- Hitler's halt order -- Germans before Dunkirk -- Calais -- Hitler and the Conservatives -- Two Rights -- Chamberlain -- Appeasers -- Halifax -- War Cabinet -- Churchill and Roosevelt -- British press -- "A slight increase in anxiety and a slight decrease in optimism." -- 3 Saturday, 25 May -- An English weekend -- French: Weygand and Petain -- Halifax and the Italian ambassador -- Churchill and the Defence Committee -- "Depression is quite definitely up." -- 4 Sunday, 26 May -- An agitated day -- Three meetings of the War Cabinet -- Chamberlain, Halifax, Churchill -- Disagreements between Halifax and Churchill -- Scarcity of news: "A mandate to delay judgment and not to worry." -- "In Westminster Abbey." -- 5 Monday, 27 May -- What was happening at Dunkirk -- Belgians surrender -- American considerations -- Three War Cabinets and a walk in the garden -- "You'd have been better off playing cricket." -- 6 Tuesday, 28 May -- Morale, opinion, and the press -- "We cannot possibly starve the public in this way." -- Foreigners and refugees -- Churchill's instructions and the first War Cabinet -- His statement in the Commons -- Second War Cabinet -- Churchill's coup -- He comes through -- 7 Survival -- A long-range view of the war -- Meaning of Dunkirk -- "It is time to face up to facts." -- Halifax redux -- An antiquated Britain -- Churchill and Europe -- Fortissimo.
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