Includes galley proofs annotated with comments and suggestions by Sir Edward Marsh of the following chapters: Chapter 1 "The desert and the Balkans", Chapter 2 "The widening war", Chapter 3 "Blitz and Anti Blitz. Hess", Chapter 4 "The Mediterranean War", Chapter 6 "Decision to aid Greece", Chapter 7 "The Battle of the Atlantic, 1941", Chapter 11 "The desert flank. Rommel. Tobruk" and Chapter 10 "The Japanese Envoy".