Never Surrender

Informationen zum Autor Bestselling author Michael Dobbs was at Mrs Thatcher’s side as she took her first step into Downing Street as Prime Minister and was a key aide to John Major when he was voted out. In between times he was bombed in Brighton, banished from Chequers and blamed for failing to secoure a Blair-Major television debate. He is now one of the country’s leading political commentators. Klappentext ?This is a magnificent novel. It will hold the reader's fascination from beginning to end.?-Press Association This stunning historical novel brings you deep inside Winston Churchill's mind and heart as he becomes Prime Minister and takes on the terrifying challenge of halting Hitler's murderous invasion of France, Holland and Belgium with only his wits and his magnificent words. Only his courage stands between the people of the British Isles and advancing enemy armies as they drive his retreating soldiers onto the beaches of Dunkirk and into the English channel. You will live at Churchill's side as he deals with his own feelings of inadequacy while contending with his fellow ministers, who plot to throw him out of office. And you will be the fly on the wall of history as he matches wits with Hitler in the most crucial battlefield of all, the battlefield of the mind. Best-selling author Michael Dobbs has written fifteen novels. He served as one of the chief advisers to Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major. ?Dobbs doesn?t put a foot wrong. I read it in two gulps in just two nights; the characters are brilliantly sketched.? -Churchill Center website ?Dobbs masterfully dissects three weeks of the Second World War. A historical hit.?-Daily Mirror ?Better than any other fiction, [Dobbs's books] convey the desperation of those times, which we today, six decades removed, cannot possibly imagine.?-Finest Hour, magazine of the Churchill Center Zusammenfassung Winston Churchill embarks on a battle of wills with Adolf Hitler in the run-up to Dunkirk. The compelling new historical novel from the acclaimed author of Winston’s War....

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Michael Dobbs, Dobbs Michael
• Verlag: Harper Collins Uk
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 07.06.2004
• EAN: 9780007107278
• ISBN: 978-0-00-710727-8
• Seiten: 438
• Abmessung: 111 mm x 177 mm x 28 mm
• Serien: Harper Collins Paperbacks; Harper Collins Paperbacks
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; FICTION / War & Military, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, FICTION / Biographical, Second World War fiction, Historical adventure, FICTION / Political, Winston Churchill, FICTION / Thrillers / Historical, Narrative theme: Politics, Historical adventure fiction, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction, Fiction based on or inspired by true events, FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / World War II