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1942: Britain at the Brink (Hardcover)
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1942: Britain at the Brink (Hardcover)
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'Taylor Downing vividly brings to life a terrible year' Max
Hastings, Sunday Times 'Taylor Downing is a wonderful historian and
a wonderful history communicator.' Dan Snow, History Hit Eighty
years ago, Britain stood at the brink of defeat. In 1942, a string
of military disasters engulfed Britain in rapid succession : the
collapse in Malaya; the biggest surrender in British history at
Singapore; the passing of three large German warships through the
Straits of Dover in broad daylight; the longest ever retreat
through Burma to the gates of India; serious losses to Rommel's
forces in North Africa; the siege of Malta and the surrender at
Tobruk. All of this occurred against the backdrop of catastrophic
sinkings in the Atlantic and the Arctic convoys. People began to
claim that Churchill was not up to the job and his leadership was
failing badly. Public morale reached a new low. 1942 Britain At the
Brink explores the story of frustration and despair in that year
prompting the Prime Minister to demand of his army chief 'Have you
not got a single general who can win battles?' Using new archival
material, historian Taylor Downing shows just how unpopular
Churchill became in 1942 with two votes attacking his leadership in
the Commons and the emergence of a serious political rival. Most
people think that Britain's worst moment of the war was in 1940
when the nation stood up against the threat of German invasion. In
1942 Britain at the Brink, Taylor Downing describes in nail-biting
detail what was really Britain's darkest hour .
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