Alan Allport

Britain at Bay

The Epic Story of the Second World War: 1938-1941

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Power. Glory. Death. Courage. How well do we know the story of the Second World War?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Profile Books Ltd
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 127mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9781781257821
• ISBN-10: 1781257825
• Artikelnr.: 61210154

Autorenporträt

Alan Allport is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Syracuse University. He is the author of three previous volumes of history, Browned Off and Bloody-Minded, Demobbed - winner of the 2010 Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award - and Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938-1941.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Foreword
A Note on Money
 
Part One: The British Way and Purpose
1. Shire Folk
2. Ulster Kristallnacht
3. A Different Kind of Nation
4. The School of Empire
 
Part Two: Umbrella Man
5. Guilty Man
6. The Bones of a British Grenadier
7. The Stupidest Thing That Has Ever Been Done
8. To Make Gentle the Life of the World
9. The Sharpening of the Claws
 
Part Three: Companions in Misfortune
10. The Other Dunkirk
11. Class War
12. Bras-Dessus, Bras-Dessous
13. In the Name of God
14. A Certain Eventuality
 
Part Four: And Only England Stands
15. Lunatic Relief
16. All Our Past Proclaims Our Future
17. Margins
18. The Scouring of the Shire Folk
 
Part Five: ‘A New and Most Bitter Phase of the War’
19. American Lebensraum
20. Shapeless, Measureless Peril
21. The Carotid Artery of Empire
22. Taking the Gloves Off
23. March on to Better Days
 
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index