Ebook: The duel: the eighty-day struggle between Churchill and Hitler
Author: Churchill Winston, Hitler Adolf, Lukacs John
- Tags: ART--History--General, Command of troops, Military campaigns, World War 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front, World War 1939-1945--Germany, World War 1939-1945--Great Britain, Electronic books, Churchill Winston -- 1874-1965 -- Military leadership, Hitler Adolf -- 1889-1945 -- Military leadership, World War 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Western Front, World War 1939-1945 -- Great Britain, World War 1939-1945 -- Germany, ART -- History -- General, Churchill Winston -- 1874-1965, Hitler Adolf -- 1889-1
- Year: 2001
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- City: New Haven;Great Britain;Germany
- Language: English
- epub
This is a day-by-day account of the eighty-day struggle in 1940 between Hitler—poised on the edge of absolute victory—and Churchill—threatened by imminent invasion and defeat.
“A masterful book—masterful in its portrayal of its protagonists, masterful in its overall understanding of the death-struggle in which they engaged, masterful, above all, in its vivid, suspenseful chronicling of the most momentous eighty days in the history of this century."—Geoffrey Ward
“This is a marvelous book. John Lukacs has lucid, unsentimental insight into the mind and character of both Churchill and Hitler."—Conor Cruise O'Brien
“A wonderful story wonderfully told."—George F. Will
“It is salutary to be reminded in this powerful study how close Hitler came to winning in 1940...An impressive study ...[written] with elegance and panache."—Peter Stansky, New York Times
“A master of narrative history on a par...