WINNER OF THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN A TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF
THE YEAR 'Britain's wartime story has been told many times, but
never as cleverly as this.' Dominic Sandbrook In the bleak first
half of the Second World War, Britain stood alone against the Axis
forces. Isolated and outmanoeuvred, it seemed as though she might
fall at any moment. Only an extraordinary effort of courage - by
ordinary men and women - held the line. The Second World War is the
defining experience of modern British history, a new Iliad for our
own times. But, as Alan Allport reveals in this, the first part of
a major new two-volume history, the real story was often very
different from the myth that followed it. From the subtle moral
calculus of appeasement to the febrile dusts of the Western Desert,
Allport interrogates every aspect of the conflict - and exposes its
echoes in our own age. Challenging orthodoxy and casting fresh
light on famous events from Dunkirk to the Blitz, this is the real
story of a clash between civilisations that remade the world in its
image.
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