Folio Archives 384: Five Days in London, May 1940 by John Lukacs - 2011
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Five Days in London, May 1940 by John Lukacs - 2011
This is an amazingly interesting insight into the behind-the-scenes happenings in London just after Churchill became Prime Minister and during the Dunkirk evacuation.
Germany was undefeated, The Netherlands had fallen and both Belgium and France were about to surrender. The British Army was surrounded by virtually unchallenged German forces on the coast of Belgium and France and Britain was woefully unprepared to defend itself.
This book goes through what Churchill, the War Cabinet and other key players in England were doing during the critical five days from 24 to 28 May 1940. The commentary is not just day-by-day, but hour-by-hour and sometimes minute-by-minute, and is quite compelling, so much so that I read the book in one day. It is real living first-hand history.
The book is illustrated with monochrome photographs and cartoons, a frontispiece and on 16 bound in pages. It is introduced by Philip Ziegler and bound in olive cloth, the cover printed in black with a picture of Churchill. It has flecked dark grey endpapers and a matching flecked dark grey slipcase. The slipcase measures 23.6x16.8cm. and the book has a bibliography, index and xxii + 190 pages.
My copy shows an annoyingly significant amount of show-through in the first signature (see Illustration list page below), but other signatures are unaffected.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the "Folio Archives" series can be viewed here.
This is an amazingly interesting insight into the behind-the-scenes happenings in London just after Churchill became Prime Minister and during the Dunkirk evacuation.
Germany was undefeated, The Netherlands had fallen and both Belgium and France were about to surrender. The British Army was surrounded by virtually unchallenged German forces on the coast of Belgium and France and Britain was woefully unprepared to defend itself.
This book goes through what Churchill, the War Cabinet and other key players in England were doing during the critical five days from 24 to 28 May 1940. The commentary is not just day-by-day, but hour-by-hour and sometimes minute-by-minute, and is quite compelling, so much so that I read the book in one day. It is real living first-hand history.
The book is illustrated with monochrome photographs and cartoons, a frontispiece and on 16 bound in pages. It is introduced by Philip Ziegler and bound in olive cloth, the cover printed in black with a picture of Churchill. It has flecked dark grey endpapers and a matching flecked dark grey slipcase. The slipcase measures 23.6x16.8cm. and the book has a bibliography, index and xxii + 190 pages.
My copy shows an annoyingly significant amount of show-through in the first signature (see Illustration list page below), but other signatures are unaffected.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the "Folio Archives" series can be viewed here.
