Covers the beginning of the summer of 1943 to the evening of June 5, 1943 with the great armada waiting for the historic landing on June 6.

From uninterrupted defeat to almost unbroken success: a year when Rommel is gradually thrown back in North Africa, and in the Pacific the tide turns.

Hitler reneges on his non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union, so the Allied team begins to coalesce, and the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese makes the participation of the United States in the war official.

The Allies push across Europe and take the fight to Berlin, and President Roosevelt's death shortly before final victory against Germany affects Churchill deeply.

Churchill had met separately with both Roosevelt and Stalin; the second half of this volume brings the three of them together for the first time at the November, 1943 conference in Teheran.

Churchill's history of the Second World War is, and will remain, the definitive work. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent historical reconstruction and an enduring work of literature. This is the third volume of Churchill's own abridgement of his original six-volume history of the Second World War.

'After the first forty days we were alone, with victorious Germany and Italy engaged in a mortal attack upon us, with Soviet Russia a hostile neutral actively aiding Hitler, and Japan an unknowable menace.' Churchill's history of the Second World War is, and will remain, the definitive work. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent historical reconstruction...