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Cargando... When Britain Saved the West: The Story of 1940por Robin Prior
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A very good, thorough, well written & largely (but not wholly) engaging account of the events of 1940, from a British point of view. Not much that is new here, and certainly Prior appears to be very pro British & pro dominion, and Empire, but none the less, his points have validity and his conclusions have resonance and depth. This is a good book for those with an interest in world war 2, its effects on he British and the legend of 1940, for the British. It doesn't deal with much outside that, with the exception of the Anglo American relationship of that time, so don't expect that. What it does, it does well. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
From the comfortable distance of seven decades, it is quite easy to view the victory of the Allies over Hitler's Germany as inevitable. But in 1940 Great Britain's defeat loomed perilously close, and no other nation stepped up to confront the Nazi threat. In this cogently argued book, Robin Prior delves into the documents of the time-war diaries, combat reports, Home Security's daily files, and much more-to uncover how Britain endured a year of menacing crises. The book reassesses key events of 1940-crises that were recognized as such at the time and others that were not fully appreciated. Prior examines Neville Chamberlain's government, Churchill's opponents, the collapse of France, the Battle of Britain, and the Blitz. He looks critically at the position of the United States before Pearl Harbor and at Roosevelt's response to the crisis. Prior concludes that the nation was saved through a combination of political leadership, British Expeditionary Force determination and skill, Royal Air Force and Navy efforts to return soldiers to the homeland, and the determination of the people to fight on "in spite of all terror." No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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