The War in the West: A New History - Volume 2: The Allies Fight Back 1941-43

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 Examines the momentous turning points of 1941-1943: Hitler's invasion of Russia; America's entry into the conflict; the devastating Thousand Bomber Raids over Germany; the long struggle in the deserts of North Africa; and the defeat of the U-boats in the crucial Battle of the Atlantic. Zusammenfassung Examines the momentous turning points of 1941-1943: Hitler's invasion of Russia; America's entry into the conflict; the devastating Thousand Bomber Raids over Germany; the long struggle in the deserts of North Africa; and the defeat of the U-boats in the crucial Battle of the Atlantic.

Product details

• Authors: James Holland
• Publisher: Corgi
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9780552169158
• ISBN: 978-0-552-16915-8
• No. of pages: 880
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Western, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), History and Archaeology