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Table of Contents: “…1939--1940: French disconnections -- Phoney war and friendly fire' -- jumping into a pine forest -- scorched earth retreat -- finding a river in Africa --…”
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Table of Contents: “…The phoney war -- The Vichy regime -- The Italian occupation -- The German occupation -- The Jewish experience -- British agents in the Midi -- The Maquis -- Resistance in southeast France -- Preparations for landing -- The American landing -- The French landing -- Fighting in the back country -- Liberation of the Riviera -- Menton -- Monaco -- Authion : the final battle -- Rebuilding the Riviera.…”

Table of Contents: “…The infant prodigy (1905-1917) -- Violence and counter-violence (1917-1920) -- Intellectual and emotional mastery (1920-1929) -- Melancholia: masculinity challenges (1929-1939) -- The Phoney War (September 1939-May 1940): stoicism/authenticity -- Sartre's war (June 1940-1945): the individual and the collective -- Sartre and Beauvoir -- Sartre's relationships: to be or not to be intimate.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Buying into fashion: the social background -- Shopping for fashion in the pre-war years -- Being chic and being British -- The healthy body and the politics of fitness -- Evacuation -- Fashions for a phoney war -- Calls for a rationed fashion -- Setting the ration -- The utility clothing scheme -- Assessing the impact of clothes rationing -- Home front clothing initiatives -- Clothes for coupons -- Keep smiling through: good health and natural beauty -- Utility and austerity.…”

Table of Contents: “…A wake-up call -- Target Britain -- A nation unprepared -- 'The shadow of the German sword' -- The last spies of peace -- Phoney war -- Perish Judah! -- Lords traitorous -- Two weeks in May -- Assisting the enemy -- The Kensington conspiracy -- 'A revolutionary dictatorship should be imposed' -- Password 'Peter Leigh' -- Witch-finding -- Humble tools and real criminals -- Treachery and death -- 'Most frank and attractive' -- 'Rosebud' and the road to entrapment -- Dorothy, Dormouse and Jack -- The Marita network -- After the war.…”

Table of Contents: “…Ashes of empires: A reflection on living with the past; Independence at last: A reflection on state-building; Putin sees orange: A reflection on revolution; NATO's fateful offer: A reflection on harsh geopolitical truths; Yanukovych, Viktor and Loser: A reflection on corruption; The intelligence officer's war: A reflection on deception; Home fronts and front lines: A reflection on phoney wars; Zelensky's destiny: A reflection on heroes and antiheroes; War of conquest: A reflection on destruction; Road to ruin: A reflection on hope…”
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Table of Contents: “…Foundations for life -- Captain Suckling's legacy -- Five frustrating years -- Trying to get noticed -- Black marks and on the beach -- Melpomene, Minerve, La Fortune -- 'Totally neglected' -- 'My disposition can't bear tame and slow measures' -- 'It is active young men that are wanted, not drones' -- Into the limelight -- Hubris -- The Admirality dips for Nelson -- The hero ascends -- The Nile -- Hero meets heroine -- Disappointments dilemmas and disharmony -- Neapolitan affairs -- Soulmates -- Public fame and private pain -- Bitter-sweet emotions -- Copenhagen -- Phoney war -- Fame without fortune -- Commander-in-chief -- Waiting -- French diversions -- Dame Fortune's last favour.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Sea power in the age of Churchill -- Apprenticeship, 1900-14 -- Learning curve: The First World War -- Adjusting to the post-war world, 1919-24 -- The treasury years: the ten-year-rule, Japanese 'Bogey,' and 'Yankee Menace' -- Disarmament, rearmament, and the path to war: the 1930s -- First Lord of the Admiralty, 1939-40: The Phoney War and the Norwegian Campaign -- The war against Germany and Italy, 1940-1 -- 'Courting disaster' : the deterrence of Japan and the dispatch of Force Z -- The Battle of the Atlantic, the imports crisis, and the closing of the 'Air Gap' -- The defeat of the Axis Powers -- Churchill's last naval battle -- Epilogue: The verdict of history.…”

Table of Contents: “…Outbreak of war -- "The wholesale destruction of Poland" -- From phoney war to Blitzkrieg -- The dragon and the rising sun -- Norway and Denmark -- Onslaught in the West -- The fall of France -- Operation Sealion and the Battle of Britain -- Reverberations -- Hitler's Balkan war -- Africa and the Atlantic -- Barbarossa -- Rassenkrieg -- The "Grand Alliance" -- The battle for Moscow -- Pearl Harbor -- China and the Philippines -- War across the world -- Wannsee and the SS Archipelago -- Japanese occupation and the Battle of Midway -- Defeat in the desert -- Operation Blau : Barbarossa relaunched -- Fighting back in the Pacific -- Stalingrad -- Alamein and Torch -- Southern Russia and Tunisia -- Casablanca, Kharkov and Tunis -- Europe behind barbed wire -- The Battle of the Atlantic and strategic bombing -- The Pacific, China and Burma -- The Battle of Kursk -- From Sicily to Italy -- Ukraine and the Teheran Conference -- The Shoah by gas -- Italy : the hard underbelly -- The Soviet spring offensive -- The Pacific, China and Burma -- The spring of expectations -- Bagration and Normandy -- Berlin, Warsaw and Paris -- The Ichigō Offensive and Leyte -- Unrealized hopes -- The Ardennes and Athens -- From the Vistula to the Oder -- Philippines, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Tokyo raids -- Yalta, Dresden, Königsberg -- Americans on the Elbe -- The Berlin operation -- Cities of the dead -- The atomic bombs and the subjugation of Japan.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the road to war, September 1938-September 1939 -- The phoney war, 3 September 1939-10 May 1940 -- Blitzkrieg and exodus, 10 May 1940-14 June 1940 -- Parisians and Germans, Germans and Parisians -- Paris, German capital of France -- Unemployment, rationing, Vichy against Jews, Montoire -- From mass street protest to the "fuhrer's generous gesture" -- Protests, pillaging, "v" for victory, the first roundup of Jews -- Resistance and repression -- Resistance, punishment, allied bombs, and deportation -- SS seizure of security, the yellow star, the vel'd'hiv' roundup, la releve -- Denunciations, distractions, deprivations -- Labour conscription, resistance, the French gestapo -- Anti-Bolshevism, black market, more bombs, Drancy -- A serial killer on the run, Petain in Paris, the milice on the rampage, the allies on their way -- The liberation of Paris -- Conclusion.…”

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Table of Contents: “…The Paradoxical Glamour of the Phoney War: Examining the Design of Picturegoer / Carolyn Owen King -- 3. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Russia and the former Soviet republics: Putinisation at home and℗¡abroad; Russia and its western neighbours: A watershed moment; Russia's elections: Leaving little to℗¡chance; Putin's Ceau̐Μưsescu moment; Setbacks at home, successes abroad: The mixed fortunes of℗¡Vladimir℗¡Putin; Putin's phoney war; Re-enter Putin, weakened and℗¡resentful; The real Mr Putin stands up; Towards a greater Putistan? …”
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Table of Contents: “…To the brink ; The failure of diplomacy ; "Speak for England!" ; The phoney war ; Operation Pied Piper ; Case Yellow ; "Gad, gentlemen, here's to our greatest victory of the war" ; Hitler "missed the bus" ; "In the name of God, go" -- Part two: The Battle of France. …”

Table of Contents: “…-- Why historians differ on appeasement -- Two contrasting personalities -- Who was who in Whitehall -- The intelligence services -- Churchill and Whitehall in the 1930s -- Measuring power -- Sea power -- Air power -- Land power -- Defence industries -- The wider economy -- Public opinion and national morale -- Collective security -- Intelligence and perceptions of power -- Dealing with the great depression -- The war debts controversy -- Manchuria and the end of the ten year rule -- Disarmament and defence requirements, 1932-34 -- Reshaping grand strategy, 1934 -- Anglo-Japanese relations -- The German threat increases -- The Ethiopian crisis -- Drawing up the rearmament programme -- The Rhineland crisis and after -- Rearmament and the role of the army -- Financing rearmament -- Relations with the United States and Japan -- Seeking a general settlement in Europe -- The Inskip defence review -- Eden's resignation -- First reactions to the threat to Czechoslovakia -- From May 'crisis' to September crisis -- Berchtesgaden and Godesberg -- Munich -- The aftermath of Munich -- Towards a continental commitment -- Chamberlain still hoping for the best -- The end of Czechoslovakia -- The guarantee to Poland -- Negotiations with the Soviets -- Secret contacts with Germans -- The decision for war -- The 'phoney war' -- Norway and the fall of Chamberlain's government -- Finest hour -- The limits of British power -- What would Churchill have done? …”