From the award-winning author of The Dictators, Richard Overy's book, The Battle of Britain: Myth and Reality, is the best introduction to a defining moment in British history. The extraordinary struggle between British and German air forces in 1940 was one of the defining events of the Second World War. How close did Britain come to invasion during this period? What were Hitler's and Churchill's motives? And what was the real impact of the battle on the outcome of the war?
Richard Overy has dedicated much of his distinguished career to studying the intellectual, social, and military ideas that shaped the disastrous course of the Second World War, particularly in his books 1939 - Countdown to War, Why the Allies Won, Russia's War, and The Morbid Age.
Overy's The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia has won the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hessell Tiltman Prize.
Pages: 176, Dimensions: 13x13cm
