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The Longest Night

By Gavin Mortimer

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Group US
Year
2006
ISBN
9780425211830, 2005045281
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
367 kB (376075 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-06-24 09:21:42

Description

“An emotionally stirring account of the single most devastating attack on London during the Blitz… A captivating and important contribution… History that reads like a novel.”— Kirkus The untold story of the massive bombing raid that almost brought Britain to military collapse, The Longest Night reveals just how close the Luftwaffe came to total victory. On the night of May 10, 1941, Nazi Germany sent some five hundred aircraft to drop more than seven hundred tons of explosives on London. This vivid, dramatically told account depicts how fate shifted based on Hitler's mistaken belief that he'd actually lost the air war over Britain, and portrays the unsurpassed, "we-can-take-it" bravery of the British people when they'd been pushed beyond all human endurance...M.F

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