Prologue: "The past is a foreign country"
Part one: The Second Great War. To the brink ; The failure of diplomacy ; "Speak for England!" ; The phoney war ; Operation Pied Piper ; Case Yellow ; "Gad, gentlemen, here's to our greatest victory of the war" ; Hitler "missed the bus" ; "In the name of God, go"
Part two: The Battle of France. "The top of the greasy pole" ; Rommel crosses the Meuse ; "We are beaten; we have lost the battle" ; "The mortal gravity of the hour" ; May 20, 1940: "a pretty fair pig of a day" ; "The fatal slope" ; "Hard and heavy tidings" ; The sharp end of the stick ; The Battle of Arras: "we may be foutu" ; "Their zest and delight in shooting Germans was most entertaining"
Part three: Dunkirk. The burghers of Calais ; "Fight it out to the bitter end" ; Flag officer, Dover ; The home front ; "Presume troops know they are cutting their way home to Blighty" ; Dynamo ; "Fight it out, here or elsewhere" ; Holding the line ; "The little ships" ; "The best mug of tea I have ever had in my life" ; "Arm in arm" ; "We are going to beat them" ; The Dunkirk spirit ; At sea.