The second volume in Daniel Todman's acclaimed history of Britain's experience of the Second World War'A stunning achievement' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'I cannot recommend this history highly enough'
The most terrible emergency in Britain's history, the Second World War required an unprecedented national effort. An exhausted country had to fight an unexpectedly long war and found itself much dimin
The second volume in Daniel Todman's acclaimed history of Britain's experience of the Second World War'A stunning achievement' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'I cannot recommend this history highly enough'
On June 18th, 1940, shortly after France fell to Nazi Germany, Winston Churchill delivered his "finest hour" speech to the House of Commons. The speech galvanized and inspired the country as
The second of Daniel Todman's two sweeping volumes on Great Britain and World War Two, Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947, begins with the Fall of Singapore in February 1942 to the Japanese-the eve
For most of the Second World War, General Sir Alan Brooke (1883-1963), later Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, was Britain's Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) and Winston Churchill's principal m
