World in the balance : the perilous months of June-October 1940 /
After the 1940 Battle of France, the British Expeditionary Force desperately attempted to flee the small French port of Dunkirk and reach British shores, France was falling, and the men were well aware that the German army had already conquered Poland, Denmark, Norway, Holland, and Belgium. Only Bri...
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Washington, D.C. :
Potomac Books,
©2011
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Table of Contents:
- Prelude
- June : collapse
- The race to read the codes
- July : fire and wait
- Radar, radio waves, and the race for air superiority
- August : the mailed fist
- Cracking a people's will to fight
- September : from under the rubble
- Diplomacy : the craft of binding friends and stabbing enemies
- October : how the pieces fell
- Postlude