Five Days in London, May 1940

Name: Five Days in London, May 1940
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ISBN: 9780300084665

ISBN-10: 0300084668

ISBN-13: 9780300084665

Edition: 2001

Authors: John Lukacs

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Distinguished historian John Lukacs presents an hour-by-hour account of the five days from 24th to 28th May 1940, as the British War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue the war.

Book details

List price: $14.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 8/11/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.04" wide x 7.68" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

John Lukacs is the author of more than twenty books on history.



Preface


Acknowledgments



The Hinge of Fate


The turning point. Two accounts


The awesomeness of the German tide


Black Fortnight


Problems of British morale


Distrust of Churchill


Opinions and sentiments


"Outwardly calm, inwardly anxious."



Friday, 24 May


Hitler's halt order


The Germans before Dunkirk


Calais


Hitler and the Conservatives


The two Rights


Chamberlain


Appeasers


Halifax


The War Cabinet


Churchill and Roosevelt


The British press


"A slight increase in anxiety and a slight decrease in optimism."



Saturday, 25 May


An English weekend


The French: Weygand and Petain


Halifax and the Italian ambassador


Churchill and the Defence Committee


"Depression is quite definitely up."



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."



Monday, 27 May


What was happening at Dunkirk


The Belgians surrender


American considerations


Three War Cabinets and a walk in the garden


"You'd have been better off playing cricket."



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


The second War Cabinet


Churchill's coup


He comes through



Survival


A long-range view of the war


The meaning of Dunkirk


"It is time to face up to facts."


Halifax redux


An antiquated Britain


Churchill and Europe


Fortissimo


Bibliography


Illustration Credits


Index