Beschreibung:
Malcolm Brown is a distinguished former 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.
A gripping account of Britain's experience of 1940: the year they 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 our island's finest hour through the first-hand accounts of those who were there