The Second World War: Their Finest Hour

@2@For eight grim months Great Britain stood alone as the only European power still carrying on the struggle against Nazi Germany. Eight months in which the Luftwaffe tried and failed to drive the RAF from the skies; eight months in which the Nazi fleet tried to starve Britain into submission. @3@@2@Focusing on the period from May 1940 to the end of the year, THEIR FINEST HOUR embraces Sir Winston Churchill's first days as Prime Minister, France's defeat, British troops' mass evacuation from Dunkirk and the uneasy summer when the enemy was daily expected upon our shores. However, it also features the first gleams of light as the danger of invasion faded and the year closed with Desert Victory.@3@@2@The descriptions of these times and events, both desperate and hopeful, are drawn from the pen of the man who shaped them and who led his people in resistance to every challenge, bringing the period to a close with the first victorious counter-attack.@3@

Product details

• Authors: Winston Churchill, Winston S. Churchill
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2015
• EAN: 9780297609629
• ISBN: 978-0-297-60962-9
• No. of pages: 608
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 243 mm x 43 mm
• Series: THE SECOND WORLD WAR; THE SECOND WORLD WAR
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; HISTORY / Military / General, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General