To write or not to write?
Contracts: Churchill against the publishers
Papers: Churchill against the bureaucrats
Reputation: Churchill against mortality
[pt.] I: The gathering storm, 1919-1940, 1946-1948
The unnecessary road to Munich
Twilight for Chamberlain, new dawn for Churchill
Prophet of the past and the future
[pt.] II: Their finest hour, 1940, 1946-1949
Between memoir and history
The battle of Britain and the Mediterranean gamble
[pt.] III: The grand alliance, 1941-1942, 1948-1950
"In the event of your death"
The crisis of spring 1941
"Man of the half-century"
[pt.] IV: The hinge of fate, 1942-1943, 1948-1951
Asian disasters, desert victory, and the silence of Stalingrad
Second front: when, where, and how?
"The best of Winnie's memoirs"
[pt.] V: Closing the ring, 1943-1944, 1949-1952
Churchill and "the Mediterranean strategy"
[pt.] VI: Triumph and tragedy, 1944-1945, 1950-1954
A very diplomatic history
Leaving it to history, 1955-1965