02130cam a2200301 4500 339242010 TxAuBib 20150513120000.0 940125s1948||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 51002507 (OCoLC)3025315 TxAuBib Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965. The Gathering Storm / Winston S. Churchill. Boston : Published in association with the Cooperation Pub. Co. [by] Houghton Mifflin, 1948. xvi, 784 pages : maps, diagrams ; 22 cm. Second World War ; ; 1 Author is the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1953. The follies of the victors, 1919-1929 -- Peace at its zenith, 1922-1931 -- Lurking dangers -- Adolf Hitler -- The locust years, 1931-1935 -- The darkening scene, 1934 -- Air parity lost, 1934-1935 -- Challenge and response, 1935 -- Problems of air and sea, 1935-1939 -- Sanctions against Italy, 1935 -- Hitler strikes -- The loaded pause-Spain -- Germany armed, 1936-1938 -- Mr. Eden at the Foreign Office: his resignation -- The rape of Austria, February, 1938 -- Czechoslovakia -- The tragedy of Munich -- Munich winter -- Prague, Albania, and the Polish guarantee, January-April, 1939 -- The Soviet enigma -- On the verge -- War -- The admiralty task -- The ruin of Poland -- War cabinet problems -- The front in France -- The combat deepens -- The magnetic mine -- The action off the river plate -- Scandinavia, Finland -- A dark New Year -- Before the storm -- The clash at sea -- Narvik -- Trondheim -- Frustration in Norway -- Norway: the final phase -- The fall of the government. Covers the period from the Treaty of Versailles to Churchill's appointment as Prime Minister in 1940. 20010420. Churchill, Winston 1874-1965. World War, 1939-1945. World War, 1939-1945. Great Britain. Europe Politics and government 1918-1945. Second World War ; ; 1. ALEML