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1942: Britain at the Brink (Paperback)
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1942: Britain at the Brink (Paperback)
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Loot Price R334
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You Save R74 (18%)
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'Taylor Downing is a wonderful historian and a wonderful history
communicator' Dan Snow, History Hit 'Vividly brings to life a
terrible year' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'Sheds intriguing light
on just how close Churchill was to losing his grip on power'
Publishers Weekly In 1942, Britain stood at the brink of defeat.
From the collapse in Malaya and the biggest surrender in British
history at Singapore to the passing of three large German warships
through the Straits of Dover in broad daylight and the longest ever
retreat through Burma to the gates of India, a string of military
disasters engulfed Britain in rapid succession. People began to
claim that Churchill was not up to the job and his leadership was
failing badly. Public morale reached a new low. In 1942: Britain at
the Brink, Taylor Downing charts the frustration and despair that
characterised this year. 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. Here, Downing describes in nail-biting
detail what was really Britain's darkest hour.
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