Britain At Bay

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A sweeping, groundbreaking epic that combines military with social history, to illuminate the ways in which Great Britain and its people were permanently transformed by the Second World War. Here is the many-faceted, world-historically significant story of Britain at war. In looking closely at the military and political dimensions of the conflict's first crucial years, Alan Allport tackles questions such as: Could the war have been avoided? Could it have been lost? Were the strategic decisions the rights ones? How well did the British organize and fight? How well did the British live up to their own values? What difference did the war make in the end to the fate of the nation? In answering these and other essential questions he focuses on the human contingencies of the war, weighing directly at the roles of individuals and the outcomes determined by luck or chance. Moreover, he looks intimately at the changes in wartime British society and culture. Britain at Bay draws on a large cast of characters--from the leading statesmen and military commanders who made the decisions, to the ordinary men, women, and children who carried them out and lived through their consequences--in a comprehensible and compelling single history of forty-six million people. For better or worse, much of Britain today is ultimately the product of the experiences of 1938-1941.

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Genre : History
Author : Alan Allport
Publisher : Vintage
Release : 2020-11-03
File : 608 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780451494757


Britain At Bay

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Genre : Germany
Author : Spenser Wilkinson
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Release : 1910
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The Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson Miscellanies

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Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Release : 1883
File : 444 Pages
ISBN-13 : UIUC:30112003992051


Emerson S Complete Works Miscellanies

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Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Release : 1883
File : 440 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:HWKJ2W


Complete Works

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Genre : American literature
Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Release : 1888
File : 436 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:HWKIYL


Irish Poets And Novelists

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Genre : English literature
Author : Denis Oliver Crowley
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Release : 1892
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ISBN-13 : HARVARD:HNJCH3


Benson J Lossing

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Author : A Centennial Edition Of The History Of The United States
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Release : 1875
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Genre : Lake Champlain, Battle of, N.Y., 1814
Author : Molly Elliot Seawell
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Release : 1891
File : 160 Pages
ISBN-13 : WISC:89098876188


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Author : Charles Cooper King
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Release : 1894
File : 306 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCAL:B4402364


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Genre : United States
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Release : 1894
File : 678 Pages
ISBN-13 : WISC:89058629734