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About this book
Adolf Hitler's failure to take Gibraltar in 1940 lost him the Second World War. But in truth the formidable Rock, jutting between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, was extraordinarily vulnerable. Every day, ten thousand people crossed its frontier to work, spy, sabotage or escape. It was threatened by Spain, Vichy France, Italy and Germany.
After the USA entered the war, Gibraltar became General Eisenhower's strategic headquarters for the invasion of North Africa and the battle for the Mediterranean.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- In Memoriam
- Epigraph
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Maps
- 1: Enemies in the Dark
- 2: Web of Empire
- 3: Rifts in the Rock
- 4: The Abyssinian Crisis
- 5: Rebellion of the Right
- 6: Death from the Air
- 7: Deutschland über Alles
- 8: Guns over Gibraltar
- 9: Scrabbling on the Brink
- 10: The Disrupters
- 11: Fight and Flight
- 12: Operation Boomerang
- 13: ‘An Absolutely Bloody Business’
- 14: The Indian Boy and His Cook
- 15: Diplomatic Dandies
- 16: Digging In
- 17: Operation Felix
- 18: The Price of Dakar
- 19: Helen among the Trojans
- 20: Dealing with Dictators
- 21: ‘Every Inch Must Be Pulverised’
- 22: The Greatest Mistake
- 23: Nosey Parker
- 24: On the Run
- 25: From the New World
- 26: Helen’s Return
- 27: Bloody War
- 28: Hands across the Sea
- 29: The Clandestine Struggle
- 30: Lighting the Torch
- 31: The North African Landings
- 32: Underwater Gibraltar
- 33: Undercover and Underhand
- 34: ‘The End of Poland’
- 35: A Vision of Battlements
- 36: The Atlantic Outposts
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Permissions
- Index
- Plates
- About the Author
- Also by the Author
- Copyright