Includes galley proofs annotated with comments and suggestions by William Deakin 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 5 "The conquest of the Italian empire", Chapter 6 "Decision to aid Greece", Chapter 7 "The Battle of the Atlantic, 1941. The western approaches", Chapter 8 "The Battle of the Atlantic, 1941. American intervention", Chapter 9 "Yugoslavia", Chapter 10 "The Japanese Envoy", Chapter 11 "The desert flank. Rommel. Tobruk [Libya]", Chapter 12 "The Greek campaign", Chapter 13 "Tripoli and 'Tiger'", Chapter 14 "The revolt in Iraq", Chapter 15 "Crete [Greece]: the advent", Chapter 16 "Crete: the battle", Chapter 17 "The fate of the 'Bismarck'", Chapter 18 "Syria", Chapter 19 "General Wavell's final effort: 'Battleaxe'", Chapter 20 "The Soviet nemesis".Also includes notes from Denis Kelly and Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford. Secretary to WSC].