Five Days in London, May 1940 by John Lukas - 2011

Used; Very Good. 2-D-40 Folio Society 2011 Hardcover with slipcase. Text is clean and unmarked. Slipcase has very light wear. Book Condition; Very Good . 2011. SLIPCASED.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2000. Collector's Edition. Full Calf. As new. Octavo, [ inches], full gilt-embossed bugundy-coloured calf sans dust jacket, -as issued-, pp. xvi, 236, indexed. Illustrated w/ b-w halftones . Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Google Books noted: The days from May 24 to May 28, 1940 altered the course of the history of this century, as the members of the British War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue the war. The decisive importance of these five days is the focus of John Lukacs's magisterial new book. Lukacs takes us hour by hour into the critical unfolding of events at 10 Downing Street, where Churchill and the members of his cabinet were painfully considering their war responsibilities. We see how the military disasters taking place on the Continent-particularly the plight of the nearly 400,000 British soldiers bottled up in Dunkirk-affected Churchill's fragile political… Read More