Finest Hour

Zusatztext From fighter-pilots risking their lives in the skies above England! to squaddies stranded at Dunkirk! to schoolgirls sent abroad to Canada (the book is worth buying just for Bess Walder's account of horror and redemption aboard the City of Benares)! this is riveting. Informationen zum Autor Phil Craig is a best selling author and multiple-award-winning film-maker. He studied history at Cambridge university, was a BBC graduate trainee and built his career working for iconic British TV series World in Action and Panorama . Later he held senior positions at the prestigious Brook Lapping production company, at Channel Four, at the Discovery Channel and at ABC Television in Australia where he ran the entire factual output including its high profile ANZAC centenary project. Throughout his TV and writing career Phil has spent many years researching and reinterpreting the story of Britain and its Empire during the Second World War, including his definitive and bestselling account of 1940 - Finest Hour . He now runs The Scandal Mongers Podcast with his friend and fellow writer Andrew Lownie. Tim Clayton, a former research fellow at Worcester College, Oxford, is a specialist is eighteenth-century history and culture. He is a leading authority on the printed images of that period. His previous bestselling books include FINEST HOUR, END OF THE BEGINNING and TRAFALGAR, described by the Observer as 'a landmark book'. Klappentext The classic bestseller on the Battle of Britain, revised and updated. Zusammenfassung The classic bestseller on the Battle of Britain! revised and updated.

Product details

• Authors: T Clayton, Tim Clayton, Clayton Tim, P Craig, Phil Craig, Craig Phil
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 12.05.2011
• EAN: 9781444710199
• ISBN: 978-1-4447-1019-9
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 198 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; History, European History, HISTORY / Military / World War II, 20th Century, military history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Air forces and warfare, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, HISTORY / Military / Aviation & Space