Description
Product ID: | 9780571307722 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Defending the Rock |
Subtitle: | Gibraltar and the Second World War |
Authors: | Author: Nicholas Rankin |
Page Count: | 672 |
Subjects: | European history, European history, History, Second World War, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, Gibraltar, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Nicholas Rankin's revelatory book, whose cast of characters includes Haile Selassie, Anthony Burgess and General Sikorski, sets Gibraltar in the wider context of the struggle against Fascism, from Italy's invasion of Abyssinia, through the Spanish Civil War, to the end of the Second World War. Two months before he shot himself, Adolf Hitler saw where it had all gone wrong. By failing to seize Gibraltar in the summer of 1940, he had lost the war. |
Imprint Name: | Faber & Faber |
Publisher Name: | Faber & Faber |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2019-04-04 |