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x, 953 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
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English
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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 diminished amongst the victors. Yet the outcome of the war was nonetheless a triumph, not least for a political system that proved well adapted to the demands of a total conflict and for a population who had to make many sacrifices but who were spared most...
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xvii, 826 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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English
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"On June 18th, 1940, invoking their 'finest hour, ' Winston Churchill galvanized his countrymen. Poland and France had fallen. Britain was next. Churchill knew, as now did millions of his countrymen, that their island nation alone faced Nazi Germany, and that soon it would be at the center of the greatest struggle of modern times -- a struggle whose outcome was by no means predetermined. Historian Daniel Todman undertakes perhaps the greatest saga...
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