Nicholas Rankin
Autor de A Genius for Deception: How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Nicholas Rankin
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1950
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- England
UK - Lugar de nacimiento
- Yorkshire, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Kenya
Bolivia
Catalonia, Spain
London, England, UK - Educación
- University of Oxford (Christ Church)
- Ocupaciones
- producer
freelance writer
broadcaster - Relaciones
- Gee, Maggie (spouse)
Rankin-Gee, Rosa (daughter) - Organizaciones
- BBC World Service (Chief Producer)
- Premios y honores
- Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (2009)
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 7
- Miembros
- 677
- Popularidad
- #37,312
- Valoración
- 3.5
- Reseñas
- 9
- ISBNs
- 30
- Idiomas
- 1
Owned by Great Britain and claimed by Spain and coveted by Hitler,
it quickly became a symbol of Good over Evil.
While Ranklin delivers a comprehensive WW II history, dates are often in confused sequence.
As well, readers may wonder what his detailed emphasis on homosexuality in the novels of Anthony Burgess
has to do with The Rock or WW II.
Even stranger is no mention of The Holocaust following the end of the War.
Questions still unanswered:
1. Why did Britain's 3 forces - Army, Navy, and Air Force - not want to unite to defeat Axis at beginning of War?
2. When they were legally and honorably pledged, why did they not defend Ethiopia?
3. Why did they continue to allow Franco's ships through to attack the Democratic Republic of Spain?
4. Why did Britain refuse to send coal or fuel to this part of Spain?… (más)