Five Days in London, May 1940 (Lukacs John)(Paperback) - diskuze

John Lukacs reconstructs five tense and decisive days during which Churchill and the British War Cabinet debated the future of the war Washington Post Book World Bestseller "Customers are raving about Five Days in London."--Amazon.com "Gripping. . . . Lukacs's story is not new . . . but [he] has transformed it into a memorable drama."--M. F. Perutz, New York Review of Books The days from May 24 to May 28, 1940, altered the course of the history of the twentieth century, as the members of the British War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue what became known as the Second World War. The decisive importance of these five days is the focus of John Lukacs's magisterial new book. Lukacs takes us hour by hour into the critical unfolding of events at 10 Downing Street, where Churchill and the
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