The Duel: The Eighty-Day Struggle Between Churchill and Hitler PDF
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T HE DUEL This page intentionally left blank THE D U EL The Eighty-Day Struggle Between CHURCHILL AND HITLER JOHN LUKACS YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS New Haven and London Yale University Press paperback edition first published in 2001. Cloth edition published 1990 by Ticknor & Fields. Copyright © 1990 by John Lukacs All rights reserved This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers. Printed in the United States of America Map by Charles P. Segal Library of Congress catalog card number: 00-10862,8 ISBN 978-0-300-08916-5 (pbk.) A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. 10 9 8 7 6 To the memory of BRIGADIER CLAUDE NICHOLSON, defender of British honor at Calais and ADAM VON TROTT ZU SOLZ, defender of German honor in Berlin This page intentionally left blank The sociologist, etc., deals with his material as if the out- come were given in the known facts: he simply searches for the way in which the result was already determined in the factfc. The historian, on the other hand, must always main- tain towards his subject an indeterminist point of view. He must constantly put himself at a point in the past at which the known factors still seem to permit different outcomes. If he speaks of Salamis, then it must be as if the Persians might still win.... — Johan Huizinga, The Idea of History This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS I THE EIGHTY DAYS* DUEL I II THE FIRST COINCIDENCE (THE IOTH OF MAY) 16 III THE SLIPPERY SLOPE (11-31 MAY) 53 IV ALONE? (31 MAY-30 JUNE) IO6 V GREAT EXPECTATIONS (1-30 JULY) 155 VI THE SECOND COINCIDENCE (THE 3IST OF JULY) 195 VII AFTER FIFTY YEARS 211 EPILOGUE 222 References 227 Abbreviations of References 235 Short Bibliographical Essay 241 Acknowledgments 245 Index 247
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