Desperate Victories: Military Despatches from Dunkirk to the Battle of Britain

by G.H. Bennett

In Desperate Victories, professional historian Harry Bennett provides first-hand accounts and commentary on the British reaction to one of the greatest shocks in military history - the German blitzkrieg in the west. Selecting the official accounts, known as despatches, written by key senior commanders in 1940, the author portrays in the most direct way possible the plans and challenges as the Allies struggled to cope with the German onslaught and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445668165
• ISBN13: 9781445668161
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"