The Battle of Britain: The Unique True Story of Five Months Which Changed the War May -- October 1940
James Holland
‘A notable account of an epic human experience' Max Hastings, Sunday Times
‘Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war’ Sir Winston Churchill, speech to the House of Commons, 18 June 1940
The Nazi Blitzkrieg was unlike any invasion the world had ever seen. It hit Europe with a force and aggression that no-one could counter. Within weeks the German armies were at the French coast and looking across at Britain. It seemed impossible that she would be able to resist invasion.
Between the Nazis and glory stood an apparently fragile defence, but the men and women of Fighter, Bomber and Coastal Commands and the Royal Navy would not be cowed. Their heroics that summer would go down in history.
In The Battle of Britain for the first time, James Holland tells this most epic of stories from a 360° perspective – when the fate of the world truly hung by a thread.
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Reviews for The Battle of Britain: The Unique True Story of Five Months Which Changed the War May -- October 1940
Max Hastings
The Sunday Times
Holland is one of a new generation of historians who were born long after the war but who bring to the subject a freshness and proper spirit of enquiry. A great achievement
John Sergeant
Sunday Express
Excellent on all the technicalities of the conflict... full of lively pen portraits and unusual insights
Spectator
Stuffed with personal accounts that drive the narrative along at a cracking pace
Patrick Bishop
Mail on Sunday
Ambitious and comprehensive... the pace never flags as the narrative ranges effortlessly from the cockpit of the Spitfire to the gallery of the House of Commons
Saul David
Daily Telegraph