Description: Between September 1939 & May of 1940, Germany had defeated Poland, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, & France. The Wehrmacht stood poised to invade the only belligerent left standing. Between Hitler & world domination stood Winston Churchill & a few thousand pilots in the Royal Air Force's Fighter Command. As the Battle of Britain began, truly, no one knew how it would end. With the same combination of flawless research & extraordinary narrative that has earned Stephen Ambrose universal acclaim, Finest Hour re-creates the tensions & uncertainties of the events of 1940...months when the fate of the world truly did hang in the balance. Published in conjunction with an ambitious four-part television series from the award-winning WGBH-TV station in Boston, Finest Hour combines more than 100 original interviews & literally thousands of primary contemporaneous documents with a fresh & often controversial account of the swirling political intrigues & betrayals of the period. Here are Roosevelt & Ambassador Joseph Kennedy; Edward R. Murrow & "Wild Bill" Donovan, founder of the wartime OSS; & Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King. Featuring a Foreword by the legendary historian Martin Gilbert, Winston Churchill's official biographer, Finest Hour is a singular achievement, an indispensable contribution to the literature of World War II.

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