‘A notable account of an epic human experience' Max Hastings, Sunday Times
‘Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war’ Sir Winston Churchill, speech to the House of Commons, 18 June 1940
The Nazi Blitzkrieg was unlike any invasion the world had ever seen. It hit Europe with a force and aggression that no-one could counter. Within weeks the German armies were at the French coast and looking across at Britain. It seemed impossible that she would be able to resist invasion.
Between the Nazis and glory stood an apparently fragile defence, but the men and women of Fighter, Bomber and Coastal Commands and the Royal Navy would not be cowed. Their heroics that summer would go down in history.
In The Battle of Britain for the first time, James Holland tells this most epic of stories from a 360° perspective – when the fate of the world truly hung by a thread.
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 9780552156103
Number of pages: 928
Weight: 706 g
Dimensions: 196 x 127 x 47 mm
Holland is excellent on telling detail... This is a notable account of an epic human experience, told with the informality and enthusiasm that distinguish Holland's work... If the story is familiar, Holland tells it with authority and exuberant panache - Max Hastings, The Sunday Times
Holland is one of a new generation of historians who were born long after the war but who bring to the subject a freshness and proper spirit of enquiry. A great achievement - John Sergeant, Sunday Express
Excellent on all the technicalities of the conflict... full of lively pen portraits and unusual insights - Spectator
Stuffed with personal accounts that drive the narrative along at a cracking pace - Patrick Bishop, Mail on Sunday
Ambitious and comprehensive... the pace never flags as the narrative ranges effortlessly from the cockpit of the Spitfire to the gallery of the House of Commons - Saul David, Daily Telegraph
“Don’t speak to me”, said Churchill to his aide as they drove back to Downing Street. “I have never been so moved”. He’d spent the afternoon at RAF Bentley Priory, Headquarters of Fighter Command, watching the... More
“Don’t speak to me”, said Churchill to his aide as they drove back to Downing Street. “I have never been so moved”. He’d spent the afternoon at RAF Bentley Priory, Headquarters of Fighter Command, watching the... More
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