Verlag: Vintage (edition Reprint), 2021
ISBN 10: 1101974699 ISBN 13: 9781101974698
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Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2021
ISBN 10: 1101974699 ISBN 13: 9781101974698
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Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Jan 1900, 1900
ISBN 10: 1101974699 ISBN 13: 9781101974698
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From statesmen and military commanders to ordinary Britons, a bold, sweeping history of Britain's entrance into World War IIand its efforts to survive itilluminating the ways in which the war permanently transformed a nation and its people "Might be the single best examination of British politics, society and strategy in these four years that has ever been written." The Wall Street JournalHere is the many-faceted, world-historically significant story of Britain at war. In looking closely at the military and political dimensions of the conflict's first crucial years, Alan Allport tackles pressing questions such as whether the war could have been avoided, how it could have been lost, how well the British lived up to their own values, and ultimately, what difference the war made to the fate of the nation. In answering these questions, he reexamines our assumptions and paints a vivid portrait of the ways in which the Second World War transformed British culture and society. This bracing account draws on a lively cast of charactersfrom the political and military leaders who made the decisions, to the ordinary citizens who lived through themin a comprehensible and compelling single history of forty-six million people. A sweeping and groundbreaking epic, Britain at Bay gives us a fresh look at the opening years of the war, and illuminates the integral moments that, for better or for worse, made Britain what it is today.
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2021
ISBN 10: 1101974699 ISBN 13: 9781101974698
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Zustand: New. ALAN ALLPORT is a British-born historian, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, who specializes in the British role in the Second World War. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and is currently an associate professor of history in th.