Prologue : May 10, 1940 Toy soldiers "A barren and unhappy period of my life" Sandhurst A young man on the make: the Fourth Queen's Own Hussars The jewel of empire: India, 1896-1897 A taste of war: the North-West Frontier, 1897 Soldier of fortune Omdurman David versus Goliath The Boer War The great escapade "The red gleam of war" Lessons learned Star bright The odd couple "Alarm bells throughout Europe" First lord of the admiralty Lighting the bonfire The architect of war Churchill's private army "Damn the Dardanelles! They will be our grave" The reckoning Penance "In Flanders fields" "Winston's folly" "A hopelessly obsolete, old-fashioned warrior" The shame of Munich "Bring back Churchill" "Winston is back" Warlord in waiting The Norway debacle The loneliest man in Britain "Action this day" Minister of defense The central war room Disaster in Flanders fields Deliverance "Don't give way to fear" "What a summer to waste on war" "Set Europe ablaze" London burning Wavell on the hot seat The president and the "former naval person" Mediterranean misadventures Disaster in Crete --- The endless desert war "Colonel shrapnel" Chickens roosting in the Far East The quest for generalship Getting it right Alamein: the turning point Ike Torch and Casablanca Down the garden path Amid the ruins of Carthage The strategic air campaign Stranding the whale Overlord at last Summer of discontent Victory Postscript Epilogue : The last farewell--a look back
