Step by Step

Winston S. Churchill

• Publisher: RosettaBooks
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9780795329852
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

The second volume in this enthralling collection of the British prime minister's journalistic work, tracing Hitler's rise to power and the threat of Nazism.
 
Legendary politician and military strategist Winston S. Churchill was a master not only of the battlefield, but of the page and the podium. Over the course of forty books and countless speeches, broadcasts, news items and more, he addressed a country at war and at peace, thrilling with victory but uneasy with its shifting role on the global stage. In 1953, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for "his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values." During his lifetime, he enthralled readers and brought crowds roaring to their feet; in the years since his death, his skilled writing has inspired generations of eager history buffs.
 
This thrilling collection brings together Churchill's reporting for the Daily Telegraph and the Evening Standard from 1936 to 1939—tracing Hitler's rise to power, the Nazi invasion of the Rhineland, and the looming specter of war.
 
In the first few years of Nazi ascendance, many European intellectuals and leaders advocated negotiating with Hitler, reluctant to take steps towards outright war. Churchill is one of the few who understood the scope of the Nazi threat and advocated armament against Germany early on, a position that contributed to Britain's early entry into World War II. This collection is a must-read for anyone interested in this pivotal moment in world history, as told by one of its central figures.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• PREFACE
• FOREWORD
• Table of Contents
• BRITAIN, GERMANY AND LOCARNO
• STOP IT NOW!
• WHERE DO WE STAND?
• HOW GERMANY IS ARMING
• OUR NAVY MUST BE STRONGER
• ORGANISE OUR SUPPLIES
• HOW TO STOP WAR
• WHY SANCTIONS FAILED
• DUSK APPROACHES
• THE SPANISH TRAGEDY
• KEEP OUT OF SPAIN
• ENEMIES TO THE LEFT
• A TESTING TIME FOR FRANCE
• AN OBJECT LESSON FROM SPAIN
• THE COMMUNIST SCHISM
• GATHERING STORM
• IN MEDITERRANEAN WATERS
• GERMANY AND JAPAN
• THE PLEDGE OF FRANCE
• MR. BALDWIN’S REVIVAL
• NO INTERVENTION IN SPAIN
• HOW TO MEET THE BILL
• EUROPE’S PEACE
• FRANCE FACES A NEW CRISIS
• GERMANY’S CLAIM FOR COLONIES
• REBUILDING THE BATTLE FLEET
• CAN THE POWERS BRING PEACE TO SPAIN?
• THE NEW PHASE IN INDIA
• GERMANY AND THE LOW COUNTRIES
• DEFENDING THE EMPIRE
• AMERICA LOOKS AT EUROPE
• THE ROME-BERLIN AXIS
• “VIVE LA FRANCE!”
• THE EBBING TIDE OF SOCIALISM
• PALESTINE PARTITION
• ANGLO-ITALIAN FRIENDSHIP–HOW?
• A PLAIN WORD TO THE NAZIS
• THE WOUNDED DRAGON
• FRIENDSHIP WITH GERMANY
• THE DICTATORS HAVE SMILED
• WAR IS NOT IMMINENT
• YUGOSLAVIA AND EUROPE
• ARMISTICE—OR PEACE?
• SPAIN’S ROAD TO PEACE
• WHAT WE ASK OF THE UNITED STATES
• PANORAMA OF 1937
• BRITAIN REARMS
• WHAT JAPAN THINKS OF US
• THE DUSK OF THE LEAGUE
• IT’S NOT ALL OVER YET
• CARRY ON!
• THE AUSTRIAN EYE-OPENER
• RED SUNSET IN SPAIN
• THE NEW FRENCH GOVERNMENT
• BRITAIN’S DEFICIENCIES IN AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURE
• BRITAIN AND ITALY
• JAPAN ENTANGLED
• NATIONAL SERVICE
• SHADOWS OVER CZECHOSLOVAKIA
• THE RAPE OF AUSTRIA
• THOUGHTS ON THE ROYAL VISIT
• THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE
• GERMAN MANŒUVRES
• IS AIR-POWER DECISIVE?
• THE EUROPEAN CRISIS
• FRANCE AFTER MUNICH
• PALESTINE
• THE JAPANESE BURDEN
• THE MORROW OF MUNICH
• FRANCE AND ENGLAND
• NEW LIGHTS IN EASTERN EUROPE
• THE SPANISH ULCER
• THE ANGLO-GERMAN NAVAL AGREEMENT
• MUSSOLINI’S CARES
• THE LULL IN EUROPE
• HOPE IN SPAIN
• IS IT PEACE?
• THE CRUNCH
• MUSSOLINI’S CHOICE
• AFTER PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S MESSAGE
• THE RUSSIAN COUNTERPOISE
• THE ANGLO-TURKISH ALLIANCE
• EPILOGUE
• ENDNOTES