Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses is a Professor of History at Maynooth University, Ireland. He is the author of numerous works on Portuguese history, including Portugal 1914-1926: From the First World War to Military Dictatorship (2004) and Afonso Costa - Portugal (2010). The first edition of his biography of Salazar was originally published in 2009 and was translated into Portuguese a year later. With co-author Robert McNamara, he wrote The White Redoubt, the Great Powers and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1960-1980 (2018). The following year he edited, with Catriona Pennell, A World at War, 1911-1949: Explorations in the Cultural History of War. He was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in 2017.

Prologue Introduction 1. From Santa Comba Dão to São Bento 2. The New State in the Age of Totalitarianism 3. The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 4. The Second World War: The Axis Threat, 1939-1942 5. The Second World War: The Allied Threat, 1943-1945 6. The Postwar World 7. Salazar and the Politics of the New State, 1945-1958 8. A New Opposition: Humberto Delgado and the Bishop of Oporto 9. The Colonial Reckoning I: Angola, 1961 10. The Colonial Reckoning II: Salazar's Defiance 11. Portugal at War: The 1960s 12. Illness, Retirement and Death Conclusion Bibliography