The Many Not The Few
The Stolen History of the Battle of Britain
Immortalised in Churchill's often quoted assertion that never before was so much owed by so many to so few, the top-down narrative of the Battle of Britain has been firmly established in British legend. Britain was saved from German invasion by the gallant band of Fighter Command Pilots in their Spitfires and Hurricanes, and the public owed them their freedom. Richard North's radical re-evaluation of the Battle of Britain dismantles this mythical retelling of events. Taking a wider perspective than the much-discussed air war, North takes a fresh look at the conflict as a whole to show that the civilian experience, far from being separate and…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4411-8551-8
- EAN: 9781441185518
- Produktnummer: 13809793
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 456 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 4'019 KB
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Richard North has in recent years won a reputation as one of Britain's most expert defence analysts, through his Defence of the Realm blog. Formerly a research director in the European Parliament, North is also a political analyst through his EU Referendum blog, which examines Britain's place in the world with particular reference to its membership of the European Union. He co-authored four bestselling books with the late Sunday Telegraph columnist Christopher Booker, including Scared To Death: From BSE To Global Warming, How Scares Are Costing Us The Earth (2007) and The Great Deception (2005), a comprehensive history of the European Union. He is the author of Ministry of Defeat (2009).
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