The following relates to the footnote to the table of contents below. It involves fictitious characters.
During Captain Henry’s August visit to England he was escorted by this General Tillet, an army Historian (whose background sounds a lot like that of B.H. Liddell Hart). The following discussion takes place during a trip to the Isle of Wight to inspect a radar station.
I always assumed that the good guys won at Waterloo. General Tillet explains that there was a large down side to Wellington’s victory. I would be interested in hearing from classmates who know about the Napoleonic wars as to the soundness of Tillet’s position.
Herman Wouk, The Winds of War
Clashes in Senate – 2-3
Strike Ban Backed to Aid U.S. Defense – 3
Navy to Reinforce Guantanamo Corps – 3
The International Situation – 4
Arms Delays Cited – 5
Overseas Duty for Guard Unlikely; President Quotes Odds at 100 to 1 – 6
The Day in Washington – 6
Willkie Bars Link to Foreign Policies – 7
Congressional Record Gives 40 Pages to Farley – 7
State Republicans Fix Harmony Rule – 8
Enlisting From U.S. Spurts in Canada – 8
Roosevelt Is ‘Poorer and Wiser’ in Office; Willkie Retorts So Is Every One Since 1928 – 8
Tanks Rumble and Officers Confer at Up-State Manoeuvres – 9
15 Italian Planes Reported Downed by R.A.F. in Libya (by Joseph M. Levy and Camille M. Cianfarra) – 10-11
Nazi Plane Losses Now Placed at 60 (by W.F. Leysmith) – 11
Egypt Warns Italy Invasion Will Fail – 12
More Civilians Quit the Gibraltar Region – 12
Nazis Again Sow Mines by Planes – 13
Finns Defend Curb on Soviet Backers (by Otto D. Tolischus) - 13
Secret Plane Detector Is Tested By Air Defense in Manoeuvres (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 14
Roosevelt Sends Admiral to London * - 14
Bulgaria to Study Nazi Labor Service – 14
Destroyer Sale Urged by Admiral (by Yates Stirling Jr) – 15
Army Orders Fifty Giant Tanks As Start of Program to Build 500 – 15
The Wyoming Back with 608 Trainees – 16
Texts of Day’s War Communiques – 17
* Those familiar with Herman Wouk’s The Winds of War know that President Roosevelt sent another emissary to observe in England at this time, but it didn’t make the papers. And Captain Henry didn’t mess around with Ambassador Joe Kennedy either. He went straight to 10 Downing Street and conferred with a high level former navy person on the subject of landing craft and other important matters.
For an excerpt from this episode of the book see reply #4 above.
