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Churchill, Winston S.
Their Finest Hour /
Winston S. Churchill.
Boston :
Published in association with the Cooperation Pub. Co. [by] Houghton Mifflin,
1949.
xvi, 751 pages :
maps ;
22 cm.
Second World War ; ;
2
Author is the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1953.
The National Coalition -- The Battle of France, the first week. Gamelin -- The Battle of France, the second week. Weygand -- The march to the sea -- The deliverance of Dunkirk -- The rush for the spoils -- Back to France -- Home defense. June -- The French agony -- The Bordeaux armistice -- Admiral Darlan and the French fleet. Oran -- The apparatus of counter-attack -- At bay -- Invasion problem -- Operation Sea Lion -- The Battle of Britain -- The Blitz -- "London can take it" -- The wizard war -- United States destroyers and West Indian bases -- Egypt and the Middle East. 1940 -- The Mediterranean passage -- September tensions -- Dakar -- Mr. Eden's mission -- Relations with Vichy and Spain -- Mussolini attacks Greece -- Lend-lease -- Germany and Russia -- Ocean peril -- Desert victory.
Covers the problems confronted by Churchill as he becomes Prime Minister, the Battle of France, the story of Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, and the rebuilding of England's Army.
20010420.
Churchill, Winston
1874-1965
Military leadership.
World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945.
Great Britain.
Prime ministers
Great Britain
Biography.
Second World War ; ;
2.
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