Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain - Brossura

Clayton, Tim

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0684869314 ISBN 13: 9780684869315

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster, 2002

Riassunto

AGAINST ALL ODDS
Sixty years ago, Europe lay at the feet of Adolf Hitler. Standing between Hitler and world domination was the just-appointed Prime Minister Winston Churchill...and a few hundred pilots in the Royal Air Force's Fighter Command. Defeat seemed inevitable. Instead, a legend was born.
Taking its readers on a breathtaking journey from open lifeboats in North Atlantic gales to the cockpits of burning fighter planes, Finest Hour re-creates the tensions and uncertainties of the events of 1940 -- months when the fate of the world truly hung in the balance. It is a powerful account, told through the voices, diaries, letters, and memoirs of the men and women who lived and loved, fought and died, during that terrible yet ultimately triumphant year. The personal stories of these soldiers and airmen, diplomats and politicians, journalists and spies, are combined with a fresh and often controversial account of the swirling political intrigues and betrayals of the period.
A testament to a year when a nation's darkest hour became its finest, Finest Hour is a singular achievement and an indispensable contribution to the literature of World War II.

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Recensione:

Terry W. Hartle The Christian Science Monitor Clayton and Craig make the story of this decisive engagement come alive.

The Sunday Times (London) In the words of the ordinary people caught up in the war...[Finest Hour] is told with an immediacy that fiction could not achieve.

L'autore:

Tim Clayton is a former research fellow at Worcester College, Oxford, and the author of numerous articles and books, including The English Print 1688-1802. He has also worked as a writer and producer of television documentaries, including Voices in the Dark, a film about the historian Carlo Ginzburg.

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• Editore: Simon & Schuster
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0684869314
• ISBN 13: 9780684869315
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384