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The Duel: The Eighty-Day Struggle Between Churchill and Hitler

by John Lukacs · 1990

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This account follows the struggle between Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler during the spring and summer of 1940. Germany had overrun much of western Europe and seemed close to total triumph, while Britain faced the real prospect of invasion and defeat. Drawing on the events of that period day by day, the author examines the choices each leader made and how those decisions shaped the course of the Second World War. The book treats the two men as rivals whose moves and countermoves mattered as much as the armies they commanded.

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