Research Catalog

Title

The end of the beginning / Tim Clayton & Phil Craig.

Author

Clayton, Tim

Publication

London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

Craig, Phil, 1960-

Description

x, 438 p., [32] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

• 1942 - British troops are stranded in the desert, Hitler's armies have reached Moscow, and there are murmurs of discontent at home as new doubts emerge about Churchill's leadership. The authors use the personal testimony of ordinary people to tell the story of the war at a moment of great crisis.
• 1942-British troops are stranded in the desert, Hitler's armies have reached Moscow, and there are murmurs of discontent on the homefront. The authors use the personal testimony of ordinary people to debunk the myths and explore the realities of a crucial year in British history.
• "As British troops retreat in confusion before the Rommel's desert army, Egypt and the Suez Canal appear certain to fall. Nazi bombers blast Malta into rubble as its people near starvation. Hitler's armies sweep forward in Russia and his U-boats sink record numbers of Allied merchant ships. In Washington Britain's new allies are close to panic, while in London Members of Parliament call for Churchill to resign. And from occupied Europe comes the first evidence of Nazi death camps. The stakes could not be higher." "End of the Beginning continues the stories of some of the men and women first encountered in Finest Hour. Peter Vaux is now intelligence officer to the Desert Rats, Edith Heap is briefing RAF bomber crews, Ken Lee is fighting for his life in the skies above the desert. And new characters are introduced: Lonnie Dales, a sailor on a convoy battling through to Malta; Mimi Cortis, a nurse in one of the island's supply-starved hospitals; Dougie Waller, an anti-tank gunner facing Rommel's Panzers; Therese Steiner, a Jewish woman deported from Guernsey; Alex Szima, a US Ranger assaulting Dieppe."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Georg VI. Großbritannien, König 1895-1952
• Georg (Großbritannien, König, VI.)
• Geschichte 1936-1952
• 1936-1952
• Geschichte 1936-1952
• El Alamein, Battle of, Egypt, 1942
• World War, 1939-1945 > Great Britain
• World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > Great Britain
• World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, British
• Great Britain > History > George VI, 1936-1952

Genre/Form

• History
• Personal narratives – British

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-428) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 0340766808
• 0340794828 (paperback)

LCCN

^^2002491492

OCLC

• 49351232
• SCSB-12735757

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library