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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - London - May 1940Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of Great Britain at a terrifying time. The German armies who had trounced his troops in France were massing to follow them across the narrow Straits of Dover. How could his broken armies stop them This looked like the end for Britain. A new Dark Age was dawning.Before a sombre parliament, Churchill told his country that all he could offer them was 'blood, sweat, toil and tears.' Unusually for the great orator, Winston was missing something. He should have added brains. For scientific advances and discoveries were made in Britain which would blunt the Nazi attack and be critical to Allied victory. They would, indeed, be cornerstones of our post-war world.Most of those advances were made in 'The Intelligence Zone' - an area of England as important in world history as any place on our planet.This book tells what those advances were and how they saved Britain.It is a tale of drama, achievement and sometimes terror, often told in the words of those who lived through it. Toru, Kai (illustrateur).…