The hinge of fate

Australasian anxieties

The setback in the desert

Penalties in Malaya

A vote of confidence

Cabinet changes

The fall of Singapore

The u-boat paradise

The loss of the Dutch East Indies

The invasion of Burma

Ceylon and the Bay of Bengal

The shipping stranglehold

India-The Cripps Mission

Madagascar

American naval victories, the Coral Sea and Midway Island

The Arctic convoys, 1942

The offensive in the Aether

Malta and the desert

"Second front now!" April, 1942

The Molotov visit

My second visit to Washington

The vote of censure

The Eighth Army at Bay

Decision for "Torch'

My journey to Cairo: changes in command

Moscow: the first meeting

Moscow: a relationship established

Return to Cairo

The final shaping of "Torch"

Suspense and strain

Soviet "thank you"

The Battle of Alamein

The Torch is lit

The Darlan episode

Problems of victory

Our need to meet

The Casablanca Conference

Adana and Tripoli

Home to trouble

Russia and the western allies

Victory in Tunis

My third visit to Washington

Problems of war and peace

Italy the goal.