The hinge of fate / Winston S. Churchill.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

An account of the year 1942 that led to the invasion of Sicily, through the ebb and flow of warfare in Africa, and the discouragingly slow job of reconquest.