Spitfire Summer: The Story of the Battle of Britain - Hardcover

Brown, Malcolm

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 023300453X ISBN 13: 9780233004532

Publisher: André Deutsch, 2015

Synopsis

A gripping account of Britain's experience of 1940: the year Briton's stood alone against the victorious Nazi war machine fresh from its blitzkrieg victories in Poland and France. Based on existing Imperial War Museum archives, this book tells the story of the UK's finest hour through the first-hand accounts of those who were there: from the British Expeditionary Force's May defeat in the Battle of France, through its miraculous evacuation from the bomb-ravaged beaches of Dunkirk, to the Battle of Britain, which paid to Hitler's Operation Sealion plan to invade across the Channel, and finally to the nightmare of the Blitz, which brought the war home to the civilian population of Britain's largest cities.

About this title

About the Author:

Malcolm Brown is a former distinguished television documentary director and a freelance historian at the Imperial War Museum. He has written several books, including The Imperial War Museum Book of the Somme, The Imperial War Museum Book of the Western Front, Lawrence of Arabia: Selected Letters, Tommy Goes to War, and Verdun 1916.

Review:

"A unique history for future generations."  —Dame Vera Lynn

About this edition

• Publisher: André Deutsch
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 023300453X
• ISBN 13: 9780233004532
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240