商品簡介
As the saying goes Hi is darkest before the dawn' and so it was for Churchill and the British people during the Second World War. During February 1942, disasters came in a seemingly endless sequence, be it the Fall of Singapore, the humiliating escape of the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, the Japanese raid on Darwin and Rommel's return in North Africa. These military setbacks, when combined with the political challenge to Churchill at home and heavily strained relations with Commonwealth allies, made it seem likely that Britain would lose the War.
February 1942 was, in retrospect, the month that confirmed that Britain no longer ruled the waves; that saw British prestige so damaged that it could never be fully restored; that foreshadowed and ensured the end of Britain's Empire; that demonstrated the immense strain that could be put on Britain's relations with the Commonwealth's self-governing Dominions. In short it was the month that changed Britain's world.
Covering a wide and carefully researched canvas, February 1942 - Britain's Darkest Days provides a fascinating historical overview of the vital watershed in the course of the Second World War.
作者簡介
Adrian Stewart was educated at Rugby School before taking First Class Honours at Caius College, Cambridge. His previously published works include: The Baltic far Leyte Gulf, Hurricane -- The War Exploits of the Fighter Aircraft, Guadalcanal -- World War IT's Fiercest Naval Campaign and Underrated Enemy -- Britain's War with Japan December 1941 - May 1942. His Eighth Army's Greatest Victories (1999), Early Battles of Eighth Army (2002), They Flew Hurricanes (2005), The Campaigns of Alexander of Tunis 1940-1945 (2008), Six of Monty's Men (2011) and Carriers at War 1939-1945 (2013) have all been published by Pen and Sword Books. He lives near Rugby.
