Description
Product ID: | 9781781314951 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The Most Dangerous Enemy |
Subtitle: | A History of the Battle of Britain |
Authors: | Author: Stephen Bungay |
Page Count: | 512 |
Subjects: | Second World War, Second World War |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Stephen Bungay’ s magisterial history is acclaimed as the account of the Battle of Britain. "The magnitude and vital importance of the Battle of Britain has found a superb chronicler in Stephen Bungay, whose book is the best single-volume history to be published in over a decade." - Andrew Roberts Stephen Bungay''s magisterial history is acclaimed as the account of the Battle of Britain. Unrivalled for its synthesis of all previous historical accounts, for the quality of its strategic analysis and its truly compulsive narrative, this is a book ultimately distinguished by its conclusions - that it was the British in the Battle who displayed all the virtues of efficiency, organisation and even ruthlessness we habitually attribute to the Germans, and they who fell short in their amateurism, ill-preparedness, poor engineering and even in their old-fashioned notions of gallantry. An engrossing read for the military scholar and the general reader alike, this is a classic of military history that looks beyond the mythology, to explore all the tragedy and comedy; the brutality and compassion of war. |
Imprint Name: | Aurum |
Publisher Name: | Quarto Publishing PLC |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2015-08-06 |