Great Britain's refusal to yield to Nazi Germany in the Second
World War remains one of the greatest survival stories of modern
times. Commemorated, evoked, and mythologized as it has
been-chiseled and engraved onto countless monuments, the subject of
an endless stream of books and films-its triumphant outcome was by
no means predetermined. In December 1940, months after war was
declared, the director of plans at the War Office in London was
asked to draft a paper on how to win the war. He replied that he
could only plan "for not losing." Britain's War: Into Battle,
1937-1941 is the first of two volumes in which Daniel Todman offers
a brilliantly fresh retelling, an epic history to fit an epic
story. "Opening with his discovery of some war medals sitting in a
hearing-aid box that likely belonged to his grandfather, Todman
realizes that despite it all a new generation seems unaware of what
was truly at stake when Churchill invoked Britain's "finest hour."
The war was far greater than any single heroic hour. For six years,
Britain was at the dark heart of history, finding its way forward
hour by hour, day by day, year by year. This volume spans the
beginning and the end of the beginning, from the massive changes
required to get the country onto a war footing, through the failure
of appeasement, the invasion of Poland, the "phony war," the fall
of France, the "miracle" of Dunkirk, the Battles of Britain, and
the Blitz, ending with America's course-changing entrance into the
conflict in late 1941. Todman's colossal project seamlessly merges
economic, strategic, social, cultural, and military history in one
compelling narrative. Rapid industrialization, social disruption,
food rationing, Westminster politics, class snobbery, and the
mobilization of a global empire are woven together with the major
opening battles. Here, also, are key individuals-the politicians,
industrialists, pub owners, housewives, the pilots of the RAF, and
the sailors at Dunkirk-caught in the maelstrom that threatened to
engulf not just a small island nation but the world itself.
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