Advance Britannia - The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1942-1945

The author of “The Japanese, gone berserk, have struck in the Pacific, joined up with the Axis, declared war on us,” one British soldier wrote in his diary. “So the Yanks are now our comrades in arms, and the whole world’s ablaze.” By 1942, Churchill found himself facing a vastly different war than the one he’d inherited from Neville Chamberlain back in 1940. In the East, the Soviets were now a co-belligerent (if not exactly a firm ally). And the aid he’d so longed for from across the Atlantic had finally arrived, when Pearl Harbor pushed America to end its “dithering and buggering about.” But with Parliament and the public losing faith in him, Churchill had to manage a war that now stretched into the Pacific and Indian Oceans, threatening Britain’s colonies, all the while negotiating a new relationship with Roosevelt and Stalin--two jostling, unpredictable comrades-in-arms fully prepared to carve up the world to their own satisfaction. In this sequel to his prizewinning

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Alan Allport

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• Autori: Alan Allport
• Editore: Knopf
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 18.11.2025
• EAN: 9780451494764
• ISBN: 978-0-451-49476-4
• Pagine: 656
• Dimensioni: 156 mm x 235 mm x 34 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Capolavori fino al 1945; Saggistica > Storia > XX° secolo (fino al 1945)