The Battle of Britain

Informationen zum Autor James Holland is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning historian, writer, and broadcaster. The author of a number of best-selling histories including most recently The Savage Storm and Cassino '44, he is also the author of ten works of fiction and a dozen Ladybird Experts. He is the co-founder of the annual Chalke Valley History Festival which is now in its twelfth year, and he has presented - and written - many television programmes and series for the BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic and the History and Discovery channels. With Al Murray, he has a successful Second World War podcast, We Have Ways of Making You Talk, which also has its own festival, and is a research fellow at St Andrew's University and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He can be found on Twitter as @James1940 and on Instagram as @jamesholland1940. Klappentext Paperback edition of Holland's definitive account of the Battle of Britain, from one of the country's most acclaimed young historians. Tells the story from all sides, drawing on extensive new research from around the world, and paints a complete picture of that extraordinary summer. 'A great achievement' John Sergeant, "Sunday Express" Zusammenfassung ‘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 1940The Nazi Blitzkrieg was unlike any invasion the world had ever seen.

Product details

• Authors: James Holland
• Publisher: Corgi
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 09.06.2011
• EAN: 9780552156103
• ISBN: 978-0-552-15610-3
• No. of pages: 928
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 198 mm x 48 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; European History, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / World, 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