The ground-breaking and definitive account of the Battle of Britain from one of this country's most acclaimed young historians
James Holland is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning
historian, writer, and broadcaster. The author of a number of
best-selling histories including most recently The Savage Storm and
Cassino '44, he is also the author of ten works of fiction and a
dozen Ladybird Experts.
He is the co-founder of the annual Chalke Valley History Festival
which is now in its twelfth year, and he has presented - and
written - many television programmes and series for the BBC,
Channel 4, National Geographic and the History and Discovery
channels.
With Al Murray, he has a successful Second World War podcast, We
Have Ways of Making You Talk, which also has its own festival, and
is a research fellow at St Andrew's University and a Fellow of the
Royal Historical Society. He can be found on Twitter as @James1940
and on Instagram as @jamesholland1940.
Holland is excellent on telling detail... This is a notable account
of an epic human experience, told with the informality and
enthusiasm that distinguish Holland's work... If the story is
familiar, Holland tells it with authority and exuberant panache
*The Sunday Times*
Holland is one of a new generation of historians who were born long
after the war but who bring to the subject a freshness and proper
spirit of enquiry. A great achievement
*Sunday Express*
Excellent on all the technicalities of the conflict... full of
lively pen portraits and unusual insights
*Spectator*
Stuffed with personal accounts that drive the narrative along at a
cracking pace
*Mail on Sunday*
Ambitious and comprehensive... the pace never flags as the
narrative ranges effortlessly from the cockpit of the Spitfire to
the gallery of the House of Commons
*Daily Telegraph*
Comprehensive and readable
*The Economist*
Holland is superb at switching the focus of the action while
maintaining the pace and drama of the story
*Spectator*
A definitive record... The fact we won is remarkable, and Holland
brings the events vividly to life *****
*News of the World*
A full and fascinating account... Edge-of-the-seat exciting
*Saga*
Holland is a narrative historian par excellence who believes that
people should eb at the heart of any story and brings the
characters of the age to life... [an] excellent, highly-readable
volume
*Navy News*
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