Finest Hour, 9781444710199
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Britain’s darkest hour, a nation’s survival told by those who lived it.
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Finest Hour

the bestselling story of the battle of britain

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  • Paperback

    448 pages

  • Release Date

    13 June 2011

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Summary

Finest Hour: A Nation Forged in the Crucible of War

Seventy years ago, as Hitler’s army continued its relentless advance across Europe, Britain - a country ill-prepared for war - faced its darkest hour.

Acclaimed as ‘Brilliant’ and ‘Compelling’, Finest Hour recreates the terror, tragedy and triumph of the Battle of Britain through the testimony of the very men and women who were there. Taken from the diaries, letters and memoirs of those who survived it - and those …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781444710199
ISBN-10:1444710192
Series:Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two
Author:Tim Clayton, Phil Craig
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Hodder Paperback
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:448
Release Date:13 June 2011
Weight:323g
Dimensions:198mm x 133mm x 30mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Brilliant … This highly informative, moving series should form part of the National Curriculum.

Brilliant … This highly informative, moving series should form part of the National Curriculum. - Daily Mail

Beautifully made … Achingly vivid. - Guardian

Compelling … Mesmerizing stuff. - Sunday Telegraph

Manages to construct the tale in such a way that it breaks free of the text-book approach to transfix the viewer completely; the archive footage, the witness testimonies … of such superior quality and so beautifully shot that the whole is fresh and absorbing … Compiled with a pace that could put a lot of thrillers to shame, the result is television at its very best. - Time Out

From fighter-pilots risking their lives in the skies above England, to squaddies stranded at Dunkirk, to schoolgirls sent abroad to Canada (the book is worth buying just for Bess Walder’s account of horror and redemption aboard the City of Benares), this is riveting. - Sunday Express

About The Author

Tim Clayton

Phil Craig is a distinguished independent producer of political and historical documentaries, including the Emmy-nominated The Flight that Fought Back. Tim Clayton, a former research fellow at Worcester College, Oxford, is a leading specialist in eighteenth-century history and culture and the author of numerous articles and books. Craig and Clayton first met in 1978 while at St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge.

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