Guidance from the Greatest: What the World War Two generation can teach us about how we live our lives - Couverture rigide

Mortimer, Gavin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1472135121 ISBN 13 : 9781472135124

Editeur : Constable, 2020

Synopsis

A timely exploration of the twelve best qualities of the wartime generation - and how we can use these to improve our individual character and collective response in the face of crisis.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gavin Mortimer is a best-selling writer, historian and TV consultant whose versatile narrative non-fiction books have been published in Britain and the United States. Gavin is the leading authority on WW2 special forces having interviewed over 100 veterans, and his next work, to be published in 2020 and 2021, is a two-volume battlefield guide to SAS operations in France in 1944.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

'We will overcome it [and] I hope in the years to come, everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge, and those who come after us will say the Britons of this generation were as strong as any' Her Majesty The Queen

The Coronavirus pandemic forced the great British people to dig to the very depths of their resolve. It was during this crisis, the gravest crisis the country has faced since the Second World War, that members of the Greatest Generation - Tom Moore, Dame Vera Lynn, the Queen - proved vital reminders of the self-effacing stoicism required in times of emergency; to summon our 'Blitz spirit' and to 'Keep Calm and Carry On'.

Taking twelve qualities of the wartime generation, including fellowship, courage and integrity, and drawing on personal interviews with over two hundred Second World War veterans - from SAS officers to London firewomen to Dame Vera herself - Guidance from the Greatest shows us how we can improve our individual character and our collective approach to life.

Guidance from the Greatest reminds us of all that is great about Britain and shows how we can build upon that greatness for the future.


Gavin Mortimer is a best-selling writer, historian and TV consultant whose versatile narrative non-fiction books have been published in Britain and the United States. Gavin is the leading authority on WW2 special forces having interviewed over 100 veterans.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Constable
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1472135121
• ISBN 13: 9781472135124
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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