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100 1 $aPrior, Robin,$eauthor.
245 10 $aWhen Britain Saved The West :$bthe Story of 1940 /$cRobin Prior.
264 1 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$c[2015]
300 $axix, 335 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 317-324) and index.
505 0 $aHalf-hearted war -- The Parliamentary crisis : Churchill ascendant, 7-10 May 1940 -- The Cabinet crisis : Churchill challenged, 10-28 May 1940 -- A close-run thing : The B.E.F.'s retreat to the coast, May 1940 -- The great escape: the B.E.F., May-June 1940 -- Alone : the collapse of the French alliance, May-July 1940 -- Hitler at the door : the invasion threat, June-October 1940 -- The Battle of Britain : the antagonists -- The Battle of Britain : the overture -- The Battle of Britain : the crisis -- The Battle of Britain : the battle won, 7 September-31 October 1940 -- Terror by night : Britain survives the Blitz, September 1940-May 1941 -- A little help from our friends : Britain and America, 1940-1941.
520 $aFrom the comfortable distance of seven decades, it is quite easy to view the victory of the Allies over Hitler's Germany as inevitable. But in 1940 Great Britain's defeat loomed perilously close, and no other nation stepped up to confront the Nazi threat. In this cogently argued book, Robin Prior delves into the documents of the time - war diaries, combat reports, Home Security's daily files, and much more - to uncover how Britain endured a year of menacing crises. The book reassesses key events of 1940 - crises that were recognized as such at the time and others not fully appreciated. Prior examines Neville Chamberlain's government, Churchill's opponents, the collapse of France, the Battle of Britain, and the Blitz. He looks critically at the position of the United States before Pearl Harbor, and at Roosevelt's response to the crisis. Prior concludes that the nation was saved through a combination of political leadership, British Expeditionary Force determination and skill, Royal Air Force and Navy efforts to return soldiers to the homeland, and the determination of the people to fight on "in spite of all terror." As eloquent as it is controversial, this book exposes the full import of events in 1940, when Britain fought alone and Western civilization hung in the balance.
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