When the Nazi blitzkrieg rolled over continental Europe in the early days of World War II, London became a refuge for the governments and armed forces of six occupied nations who escaped there to continue the fight. Here the author of Those Angry Days relates the efforts of exiles like France's Charles de Gaulle; courageous King Haakon of Norway; and fiery Dutch Queen Wilhelmina, whose radio broadcasts rallied her people. Here too is the Earl of Suffolk, a swashbuckling British aristocrat whose rescue of two nuclear physicists from France helped make the Manhattan Project possible, and an international cadre of pilots, codebreakers, and spies whose essential contributions to the Allied cause went largely unsung.