Preface Introduction: Sea Power in the Age of Churchill 1. Apprenticeship: 1901-1914 2. Learning Curve: The First World War 3. Adjusting to the Post-war World, 1919-24 4. The Treasury Years: The Ten Year rule, the Japanese 'Bogey', and the 'Yankee Menace' 5. Disarmament, Rearmament, and the Path to War: The 1930s 6. First Lord of the Admiralty, 1939-1940: The Phoney War and the Norwegian Campaign 7. The War against Germany and Italy, 1940-1941 8. Courting Disaster: The Deterrence of Japan and the Dispatch of Force Z 9. The Battle of the Atlantic, the Imports Crisis, and the Closing of the 'Air Gap' 10. The Defeat of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan 11. Churchill's Last Naval Battle Epilogue: The Verdict of History Notes Select Bibliography Index
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