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1942, Winston Churchill and Britain's darkest hour, Taylor Downing

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1942, Winston Churchill and Britain's darkest hour, Taylor Downing

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 375-408) and index

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contains biographical information

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

1942

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1296941926

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Taylor Downing

Sub title

Winston Churchill and Britain's darkest hour

Summary

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; serious losses to Rommel's forces in North Africa; the siege of Malta and the surrender at Tobruk. People began to claim that Churchill was not up to the job and his leadership was failing badly. Public morale reached a new low. This book explores the story of frustration and despair of that year, prompting Winston Churchill to demand of his army chief, 'Have you not got a single general who can win battles?' Some argue that Britain's most precarious moment of the war was in 1940 when the nation stood up against the threat of German invasion during the Battle of Britain. But in 1942, Taylor Downing describes, in nail-biting detail, what was really Britain's darkest hour of World War II

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Winston Churchill and Britain's darkest hourNineteen forty-two

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