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The gathering storm /

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Churchill, Winston, Second World War ; 1.Publication details: Boston : Published in association with the Cooperation Pub. Co. [by] Houghton Mifflin, 1948.Description: xvi, 784 pages : maps, diagrams ; 22 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.53
LOC classification:
  • D743 .C47 vol. 1
Contents:
The follies of the victors, 1919-1929 -- Peace at its zenith, 1922-1931 -- Lurking dangers -- Adolf Hitler -- The locust years, 1931-1935 -- The darkening scene, 1934 -- Air parity lost, 1934-1935 -- Challenge and response, 1935 -- Problems of air and sea, 1935-1939 -- Sanctions against Italy, 1935 -- Hitler strikes -- The loaded pause-Spain -- Germany armed, 1936-1938 -- Mr. Eden at the Foreign Office: his resignation -- The rape of Austria, February, 1938 -- Czechoslovakia -- The tragedy of Munich -- Munich winter -- Prague, Albania, and the Polish guarantee, January-April, 1939 -- The Soviet enigma -- On the verge -- War -- The admiralty task -- The ruin of Poland -- War cabinet problems -- The front in France -- The combat deepens -- The magnetic mine -- The action off the river plate -- Scandinavia, Finland -- A dark New Year -- Before the storm -- The clash at sea -- Narvik -- Trondheim -- Frustration in Norway -- Norway: the final phase -- The fall of the government.
Summary: Covers the period from the Treaty of Versailles to Churchill's appointment as Prime Minister in 1940.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
NF NF Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 940.53 CHU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) D743 .C47 1 Available 34517000209562

The follies of the victors, 1919-1929 -- Peace at its zenith, 1922-1931 -- Lurking dangers -- Adolf Hitler -- The locust years, 1931-1935 -- The darkening scene, 1934 -- Air parity lost, 1934-1935 -- Challenge and response, 1935 -- Problems of air and sea, 1935-1939 -- Sanctions against Italy, 1935 -- Hitler strikes -- The loaded pause-Spain -- Germany armed, 1936-1938 -- Mr. Eden at the Foreign Office: his resignation -- The rape of Austria, February, 1938 -- Czechoslovakia -- The tragedy of Munich -- Munich winter -- Prague, Albania, and the Polish guarantee, January-April, 1939 -- The Soviet enigma -- On the verge -- War -- The admiralty task -- The ruin of Poland -- War cabinet problems -- The front in France -- The combat deepens -- The magnetic mine -- The action off the river plate -- Scandinavia, Finland -- A dark New Year -- Before the storm -- The clash at sea -- Narvik -- Trondheim -- Frustration in Norway -- Norway: the final phase -- The fall of the government.

Covers the period from the Treaty of Versailles to Churchill's appointment as Prime Minister in 1940.

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