No Phoney War - Couverture rigide

Flower, Stephen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1848689608 ISBN 13 : 9781848689602

Editeur : Amberley Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

It was 11.15 a.m. on 3 September 1939 as the Prime Minister stated that 'this country is at war with Germany'. The next eight months would become known as the 'Phoney War', supposedly because little happened. Britain moved troops into France, while German, British and French troops faced each other over the Maginot Line. But fighting did not immediately break out on the Franco-German frontier. However, this part of the war was not without incident. On the day war was declared, the first merchant navy loss was the SS Athenia, an unarmed liner carrying 1,418 passengers and crew, sunk by the U-boat U-30. While anchored at Scapa Flow HMS Royal Oak was torpedoed by U-47 with a great loss of life. In December 1939, the German battleship Graf Spee led the Royal Navy on a merry dance across the South Atlantic before being cornered in Montevideo and scuttled. The war in the air had also developed from the first air raids of October 1939, against the Forth Bridge, with further attacks on Shetland in November. Mines were dropped or laid along the coasts of Britain by the Germans. Stephen Flower tells the story of this dramatic period, revealing how much went on before the Phoney War came to an end with the invasion of Norway and Denmark. He explores the diverse experiences of both military and civilians and the events, emotions and accounts recorded here will vividly demonstrate why the Phoney War was anything but.

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À propos de l'auteur

Stephen Flower is acknowledged as one of the experts on the Dambusters, not only on the raid on the Ruhr dams, but also the operational history of the squadron subsequent to the Dams raid. He tells the story of the many raids against the Tirpitz, sensitive targets in occupied Europe and of the development of the bombs themselves, of which the Grand Slam was the biggest non-nuclear bomb ever made. He lives in Middlesex.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Amberley Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1848689608
• ISBN 13: 9781848689602
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
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