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The Battle of Britain - Myth and Reality (Paperback)
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The Battle of Britain - Myth and Reality (Paperback)
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List price R304
Loot Price R246
Discovery Miles 2 460
You Save R58 (19%)
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From the award-winning author of The Dictators, Richard Overy's The
Battle of Britain: Myth and Reality is the best introduction
available to a defining moment in British history. The
extraordinary struggle between British and German air forces in
1940 was one of the pivotal events of the Second World War. How
close did Britain really come to invasion during this time? What
were Hitler and Churchill's motives? And what was the battle's real
effect on the outcome of the war? 'It is harder to imagine a
sounder and more succinct account of the Battle of Britain' Max
Hastings, Evening Standard 'No individual British victory after
Trafalgar was more decisive in challenging the course of a major
war than the Battle of Britain ... the best historical analysis in
readable form which has yet appeared on this prime subject' Noble
Frankland, The Times Literary Supplement 'The Battle of Britain is
hard to beat' Saul David, Sunday Telegraph 'Exemplary ... a
compelling account' Boyd Tonkin, Independent 'Succeeds brilliantly
... along the way a lot of myths bite the dust' Time 'A captivating
and brilliant analysis of the fragile circumstances of Britain's
victory' Observer Richard Overy has spent much of his distinguished
career studying the intellectual, social and military ideas that
shaped the cataclysm of the Second World War, particularly in his
books 1939 - Countdown to War, Why the Allies Won, Russia's War and
The Morbid Age. Overy's The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's
Russia won the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hessell Tiltman
Prize.
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