Ministers at war: Winston Churchill and his war cabinet

Part I. Making the war cabinet

Challenging the prime minister

Finding a war prime minister

Part II. Churchill and his ministers at war

Testing the war cabinet

The months of greatest crisis

Shaping the war cabinet

The war cabinet at work

Spearhead of the left

Coping with Mr. Cripps

The cat that walked alone

The impact of Professor Beveridge

The "cocky cockney" and the debate over postwar Britain

Part III. Sundering the war cabinet

Churchill on the downslope

Aftershock

Coda.