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Len Deighton. Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II
Blood, Tears and Folly. An Objective Look at World War II. LEN DEIGHTON
CONTENTS
Cover Designer’s Note
Illustrations
Introduction
1. BRITANNIA RULES THE WAVES
The German navy
Churchill – first lord of the Admiralty
The First World War
2. DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES
Equipping for war
The U-boat
3. EXCHANGES OF SECRETS
Dönitz and Raeder: the German commanders
Unrestricted submarine warfare
The Admiral Graf Spee action
The changing map of Europe
Cracking the naval codes: Enigma
The Submarine Tracking Room
B-Dienst
4. SCIENCE GOES TO SEA
Admiral Dönitz at his command post
Aircraft: the lonely sea and the sky
Boffins join the navy
Fragile but lethal: U-boats at work
The battle at its peak
5. WAR ON THE CATHODE TUBE
America loses her neutrality
The ships kept coming
6. GERMANY: UNRECOGNIZED POWER
Citizen armies
Technical advances
Outbreak of the First World War
The British and German armies
The battle of the Somme
7. PASSCHENDAELE AND AFTER
Payments in full
The world after the First World War
Versailles – the peace treaty
Soldiers go home
Adolf Hitler, ex-soldier
Hitler and anti-Semitism
The Maginot Line
8. FRANCE IN THE PREWAR YEARS
Hitler’s New Order
The British and their prime minister: Chamberlain
Czechoslovakia – the Munich crisis
Appeasement
9. AN ANTI-HITLER COALITION?
Diplomatic manoeuvres
Hitler attacks Poland
Britain and France go to war
The German campaign in Poland
Lord Gort
The British Expeditionary Force
War production
Norway: the Allies start fighting
10. GERMAN ARMS OUTSTRETCHED
Winston Churchill
The German drive westward
The Allied reaction
11. RETREAT
Dunkirk
The end of France
Peace feelers
A ‘successful landing’
Men and weapons
Britain’s spy network
Summer 1940 – Britain goes bust
Isolationism and the USA
The development of the atomic bomb
12. THE WAR MOVES SOUTH
Benito Mussolini: ‘Believe! Obey! Fight!’
Easy pickings: Abyssinia and Albania
Uneasy Axis
A global war
The RN fight the French
Disaster at Dakar
13. A TACTICIAN’S PARADISE
A little Pearl Harbor
The Western Desert
General Wavell
General O’Connor almost conquers Libya
Hitler’s great train journey: October 1940
14. DOUBLE DEFEAT: GREECE AND CYRENAICA
Air and sea
The Balkan campaigns
Crete: ‘If yu lei yu uill bi schott’
15. TWO SIDE-SHOWS
The struggle for East Africa
Habbaniyah and after: Iraq and Syria
16. QUARTERMASTER’S NIGHTMARE
Desert warfare
General Erwin Rommel
The siege of Tobruk
Supply and demand
The threat to Cairo
Casualties of the desert
Submarines and the sea supply lines
Mussolini: no more triumphs
The future
17. THE WARS BEFORE THE WAR
Zeppelins and strategic bombing
Hermann Göring
The Spanish Civil War
18. PREPARATIONS
Göring’s air commanders
The birth of the jet aircraft
The strategic bomber: Britain
The strategic bomber: Germany
The dive-bomber
The monoplane fighter
Rechlin – the eve of war
19. THE BULLETS ARE FLYING
Heligoland: the first strike
The ‘Oslo Report’ and radar
Scandinavia
The attack westwards – May 1940
Dunkirk: Operation ‘Dynamo’
Sea Lion
The Battle of Britain
Britain’s radar defence network
The coastal convoys
The main assault: Adlerangriff39
The ‘critical period’: 24 August to 6 September 1940
Target London
Dowding, Park and Leigh-Mallory
20. HOURS OF DARKNESS
The first American aircraft arrive
Winter 1940–41: the German night raids
Fire over England
High-altitude air combat
Daylight ‘sweeps’
Bomber Command operations 1939–41
The four-engined bombers
Kammhuber Line
Centimetric radar
The weight of strategic bombing
21. THE BEGINNING OF THE END
The workforces: Britain and Germany
Flying the Pacific
The primary flying schools
22. FIGHTING IN PEACETIME
Russo-German trade
The way the Germans saw it
Rumours of war
Air reconnaissance
23. THE LONGEST DAY OF THE YEAR
The air attacks begin
Stalin the war-lord
The Russian secret
‘Wolfsschanze’ Rastenburg
Bock’s first objective: Minsk or Smolensk?
The Pripet Marshes
Army Group Centre: Hitler intervenes
Mud and horses
24 ‘A WAR OF ANNIHILATION’
The assault on Moscow resumed
The winter dimension
Russian infantry
Red Army communications
25. THE LAST CHANCE
‘Stand fast’
Hitler in command
The Nazi will falters
The future
26. THE WAR FOR OIL
27. BUSHIDO: THE SOLDIER’S CODE
The Fifteen Years War
The Flying Tigers
The Zero fighter plane
The Japanese navy
Russia fights
28. THE WAY TO WAR
Breaking Purple
1941: Britain is bleeding
Dean Acheson’s private embargo
The final exchanges
29. IMPERIAL FORCES
Commander Minoru Genda
Carrier aviation
Shipborne radar
The Japanese army
30. ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR
The conspiracy theories
The submarines
31. THE CO-PROSPERITY SPHERE
The Philippines
The armada sailing southwards
Malaya
Wake Island
Burma
Australia
Co-Prosperity
A racial war?
Conclusion: ‘Went the Day Well?’
Plate Section
Notes and References
Index
Acknowledgements (To the First Edition)
About the Author
Also By Len Deighton
About the Publisher
