Darkest Hour

Old-fashioned, testosterone-fuelled escapism and Tanner is a chiselled protagonist straight out of the pages of the old Commando comics * Mail on Sunday *Sharpe for the Blitz years…a meaty, all action yarn! * Sunday Telegraph *Holland is a superb historian who knows his stuff, and his descriptions of the action are terrific * Daily Telegraph *Has the sure touch of someone who knows their subject and enjoys it * Daily Mail *This is a well-researched page-turner that keeps you hungry for more. An exciting tale full of historical details and action * Soldier magazine *

James Holland is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning historian, writer, and broadcaster. The author of a number of best-selling histories including most recently The Savage Storm and Cassino ‘44, he is also the author of ten works of fiction and a dozen Ladybird Experts. He is the co-founder of the annual Chalke Valley History Festival which is now in its twelfth year, and he has presented - and written - many television programmes and series for the BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic and the History and Discovery channels. With Al Murray, he has a successful Second World War podcast, We Have Ways of Making You Talk, which also has its own festival, and is a research fellow at St Andrew’s University and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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