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Two months before he committed suicide, Adolf Hitler realized where he had gone wrong. By failing to capture Gibraltar in the summer of 1940, he had lost the war. The Rock of Gibraltar, a stronghold of British naval power since 1704, appeared imposing but was extremely fragile. Threatened from all sides by Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Vichy France, and naval Spain, Gibraltar also had to allow thousands of foreigners to cross its borders daily for work. Among them were spies and saboteurs, eager to blow up the Rock's twenty-five miles of secret tunnels. Nicholas Rankin's revealing book, whose characters include Haile Selassie, Anthony Burgess, and General Sikorski, places Gibraltar in the broader context of the struggle against fascism, from Italy's invasion of Abyssinia, through the Spanish Civil War, to the end of World War II.
Manufacturer
- Author
- Nicholas Rankin
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Skroutz Book Awards 2025
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- Type
- General History
- Theme
- World History
- Time Period
- World War II
- Language
- English
- Subtitle
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- Cover
- Soft
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- ISBN-13
- 9780571307722
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